Standard6

Teachers communicate well. The teacher uses effective verbal and nonverbal communication techniques as well as instructional media and technology to foster active inquiry, collaboration, and supportive interaction in the classroom.

Evidence 1: media type="file" key="cassandra_rest_review.mp3" width="240" height="20"

Rationale 1: This assignment was created for my junior/senior level culinary arts course. The idea was to create a restaurant review. The original lesson had the student complete a review and then create a PowerPoint and do a formal review. I decided to change the lesson to a podcast since that is a different means for students to communicate. It is also something that is being done more on the Internet. I was able to then link these podcasts to my culinary arts wiki site where students were able to log-on and listen to everyone else’s podcast reviews. Some students really took to the assignment as they were comfortable with the concept of editing together audio files. Others were a bit less experienced but I was able to assist them and we ended up with workable final projects. I learned another way to have students do presentations outside of the “normal classroom structure”.

KSD

6.K.4 The teacher recognizes the importance of nonverbal, verbal and media communication techniques.

This lesson introduced for many the different types of media communication techniques available outside of the traditional classroom setting. Both the students and the teacher learned how to utilize free programs such as audacity to produce their class projects.

6.S.2 The teacher supports and expands learner expression in speaking, writing, and other media.

This lesson had the student write a review, then they needed to record the audio track of their review, finally editing the track in audacity and then exporting it to an mp3 audio file. These podcast reviews then were posted to the class wiki site.

6.D.2 The teacher values many ways in which people seek to communicate and encourages many modes of communication in the classroom.

This activity promoted another means to communicate to each other. All podcasts were accessible online for students to access whenever they wanted too; not just during class time.