The teacher understands and uses a variety of instructional strategies to encourage learners to develop deep understanding of content areas and their connections, and to build skills to access and appropriately apply information.
This artifact that I used this standard in was in the EDU 381 class titled the Virtual Literacy Classroom.
LINK to the artifact
What is this artifact?
In the virtual literacy classroom, we created a visual for a classroom using a Bitmoji and images so that it looked like a classroom. Within this, there were also embedded links to resources such as read alouds, emailing the teacher, worksheets, and places to turn resources in. For this assignment, I took the topic of fluency and made a week worth of content onto the slide that students would be able to complete in an asynchronous online class style.
How does this artifact demonstrate standard number 8?
This assignment is very relevant to the current educational context. It helped us understand ways to adapt lessons to the online format so that in a few years when we become teachers, if schools are still primarily online, we will be able to know how to create appropriate lessons. We also learned how to “appropriately apply information,” in this artifact. We were able to choose any of the academic areas discussed in class (phonics, phonemic awareness, fluency, etc) in the virtual classroom and then apply our learning about the area to the lesson. This was helpful because instead of simply learning about the content areas we will cover in our future, we had to understand the area enough to create a lesson about it in a way that students can understand. By applying the course information to the lesson, we also demonstrated a “deep understanding” of the content as demonstrated in the standard. Because of all of these reasons, the Virtual Literacy Classroom artifact fully fulfills the eighth standard from the CCTS- Maine Standards.
