Multiple Instructional Strategies
The teacher understands and uses a variety of instructional strategies
to encourage students’ development of critical thinking, problem solving, and
performance skills.
Belief
Statement: All
students learn differently. According to Howard Gardner’s Intelligence Theory
there are eight, ranging from kinesthetic to music and linguistics. It is my
belief that as a teacher I must attempt to use these different intelligences
throughout my class. I also understand that it is not practical for every
lesson to have a part to each because every one of us has multiple
intelligences that can help us learn.
Artifact
1: The GreatDepression Hits Lesson Plan
Reflection:
This lesson can be
used as a bridge from the Twenties to the Great Depression and utilizes many
types of teaching strategies. Students will participate in a mock stock market
with borrowed money (poker chips or candy). Periodically throughout the lesson
the stock market stats will be put on the screen or overhead. Students will
then have the opportunities to buy or sell more stock. Showing gains and then a
sharp drop in the prices in the stock value, until it is well below the cost
that the students paid. At the end all of the student’s debt will be called in,
and they will have to pay using market values which they do not have. The point
to this lesson is to show students what it was like leading up to the stock
market crash and how risky it is to buy with borrowed money. It can even be
related to today’s stock market.
Along with
the activity students will participate in think pair shares and listen to
lectures. These relate to many aspects of learning and intelligences, such as
logic as to buying and selling stock, auditory with lectures, and community
learning with classroom discussion and presentations.
A few
things that I would change or problems that I can see would be the lack of a
rubric to specify what I would like to see the students do with specific goals.
Otherwise they could do anything and I would have no way of grading. There are
also kinks that would need to be worked out with regards to the stock market
activity. These changes will come in time as I become a more proficient teacher
and use this lesson and other lessons like it in the classroom.
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