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** Standard 2 ** ** Teachers know how children grow. **  The teacher understands how children with broad ranges of ability learn and provides instruction that supports their intellectual, social, and personal development.

Evidence: American Revolution Lesson Plan

Rationale: I am planning on using my American Revolution News lesson with my 5th grade students as a culminating project of our American Revolution Unit. Students will create a news cast that shares differing viewpoints about a major event of the American Revolution. Students will have the opportunity to share their strengths, by collaborating with their group mates to complete this high interest activity. This activity allows students to participate in the roles that they feel comfortable completing (i.e. script writer, director, videographer, prop/costume designer, project manager). Students in 5th grade show high motivation to create products in which they get to show off their learning through the use of audio/visual technology. Through the creation of this project, I realized that there are other ways for students to display their learning rather than the traditional summative test. This project will take place of their unit test and is bound to be more memorable.

KSD 2.K.2 The teacher understands that students’ physical, social, emotional, moral, and cognitive development influence learning and knows how to address these factors when making instructional decisions.

In making this lesson, I created varying roles for students to participate in that they could choose according to their strengths and comfort levels.

2.S.3 The teacher assesses students’ thinking and experiences as a basis for instructional activities (i.e., encouraging discussion, listening and responding to group interaction, and eliciting samples of student thinking orally and in writing).

Collaboration and teamwork is an essential component to this lesson. Group mates, as well as the teacher, need to be open to students’ ideas.

2.D.1 The teacher appreciates individual variation at each developmental level and shows respect for the diverse talents of all learners, and is committed to help them develop self-confidence and competence.

Understanding that students are a varying comforts levels for being in the spotlight, this activity allows for more behind the scene rolls as well.