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STANDARD 8 – Information Literacy Skills
The competent teacher will develop information literacy skills to be able to access, evaluate, and use information to improve teaching and learning.
Artifact: Equivalent Fractions Lesson Plan
Reflection:
The artifact for this standard is a mathematics lesson plan named “Equivalent Fractions” that I created and taught during my student teaching in the Spring 2013 semester. In this lesson plan I used my information literacy skills to access, evaluate, and use information to improve my teaching and student learning.
In planning this lesson I demonstrated my understanding of accessing, evaluating, and implementing useful information to best teach particular concepts by accessing the manipulative of geoboards that were available to me, evaluating its use in the instruction of equivalent fractions, and using this information gained to effectively implement them as a constructive tool for students to use within the lesson. I used careful evaluation of this manipulative in order to make the final decision to include them within the lesson. While teaching this lesson I set the expectation for students to intellectually access, evaluate, and use the information presented to them on the geoboard to solve mathematical problems and equations. I structured instruction and designed learning tasks to reflect higher-level thinking skills centered upon the concept of equivalent fractions. Furthermore, I facilitated cooperative learning groups in this artifact by having the geoboard activity be a partnered pursuit with students working together to follow the instructions and solve the math problem.
This artifact allowed me to practice my skills in using student manipulatives during instruction, especially within the mathematics discipline. I was able to assess which tactics worked best with the manipulatives and which ones could use improvement. I had never taught a lesson using geoboards and this lesson gave me experience in doing so. I am proud of myself for effectively implementing a manipulative such as geoboards within this math lesson using my information literacy skills and am eager to continue to use more manipulatives in future lessons.
The competent teacher will develop information literacy skills to be able to access, evaluate, and use information to improve teaching and learning.
Artifact: Equivalent Fractions Lesson Plan
Reflection:
The artifact for this standard is a mathematics lesson plan named “Equivalent Fractions” that I created and taught during my student teaching in the Spring 2013 semester. In this lesson plan I used my information literacy skills to access, evaluate, and use information to improve my teaching and student learning.
In planning this lesson I demonstrated my understanding of accessing, evaluating, and implementing useful information to best teach particular concepts by accessing the manipulative of geoboards that were available to me, evaluating its use in the instruction of equivalent fractions, and using this information gained to effectively implement them as a constructive tool for students to use within the lesson. I used careful evaluation of this manipulative in order to make the final decision to include them within the lesson. While teaching this lesson I set the expectation for students to intellectually access, evaluate, and use the information presented to them on the geoboard to solve mathematical problems and equations. I structured instruction and designed learning tasks to reflect higher-level thinking skills centered upon the concept of equivalent fractions. Furthermore, I facilitated cooperative learning groups in this artifact by having the geoboard activity be a partnered pursuit with students working together to follow the instructions and solve the math problem.
This artifact allowed me to practice my skills in using student manipulatives during instruction, especially within the mathematics discipline. I was able to assess which tactics worked best with the manipulatives and which ones could use improvement. I had never taught a lesson using geoboards and this lesson gave me experience in doing so. I am proud of myself for effectively implementing a manipulative such as geoboards within this math lesson using my information literacy skills and am eager to continue to use more manipulatives in future lessons.