Standard+4

Home Page - Standard I - Standard II - Standard III - Standard IV - Standard V - Standard VI - Standard VII - Standard VIII - Standard IX - Standard X **__Standard 4 __** //The teacher understands and uses a variety of instructional strategies, including the use of technology, to encourage children's development of critical thinking, problem solving, and performance skills. // Evidence:
 * Teachers know how to teach **

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">This lesson is a project based lesson on figurative language in advertising. Students can use a variety of methods to collect their data including television, online videos, newspapers, and local businesses. They have to be able to make predictions, analyze data, and form conclusions. At the end of the project, they have to display their results to the class and the advertisements that they created which had to be based on their conclusions from their data and included the use of a variety of technology. <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"> The project was developed in our EDT 674 course, //Learning with Technology//, and was used with three of my advanced writers last year. The project went fairly well and the students were focused knowing their end goal was a creation of their own based on data that they had to collect. <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"> This lesson was designed and used as an independently run lesson. After explaining the project to them, I was able to let these students work by themselves during our writing time. This allowed me to focus on the students who needed the most help in writing. The students found it fun and engaging to be doing a long-term project that had many facets to it (math, writing, reading, art, technology). They had a few questions along the way which were easily answered and they worked hard to produce a quality final project. <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"> The lesson didn’t have too much of an impact on our curriculum as a whole, but the project was given to other teachers for their use should they have any higher writers who could handle the intensity of the project on their own. It was, however, nice to see a higher level project that focused on writing which went beyond creative writing or extending essays. **<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">KSD ** **<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">4.K.3: The teacher knows how to enhance learning through the use of a wide variety of materials and technological resources (e.g. computers, audio-visual technologies, videotapes and discs, local experts, primary **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">documents and artifacts, texts, reference books, literature, and other print resources). **

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">This project allows the students to use local experts, businesses, newspapers, magazines, television, and a variety of other technology. All are used to form a final product and presentation to share with their peers.

**<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">4.S.1: The teacher carefully evaluates how to achieve learning goals, choosing alternative teaching strategies and materials to achieve different instructional purposes and to meet student needs (e.g. developmental stages, prior knowledge, learning styles, learning differences, and interests). **

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">Since students may be starting out from different points in terms of writing, advertising, the use of figurative language, and where to find advertisements, this lesson includes a solid web-quest through PBS Kids that gives the students a solid foundation from which to start.

**<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">4.D.2: The teacher values flexibility and reciprocity in the teaching process as necessary for adapting instruction to student responses, ideas, and needs. **

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">Students are able to ask questions to others beyond the classroom for this project. At the end of the data collection, they check their predictions, form conclusions, and begin working on their own advertisements. Then, the students become the teachers as they teach the class about their results.