Rationale Practice

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Consider this a practice activity for what you will be posting in Chalk & Wire.

Step 1: Restate the Standard

The teacher understands how to connect concepts and use differing
perspectives to engage learners in critical thinking, creativity, and collaborative
problem solving related to authentic local and global issues.
To me standard 5 means that the teacher will have to know how make
connections with the student using things that are familiar with the student and
utilize that in order to promote critical thinking.

Step 2: Identify your Artifact

(the Website screen shots, link, or collaborative lesson plan)
My artifact is a collaborative lesson plan using a mobile learning activity
including the molecular basis of heredity. This lesson plan was about the basics
of heredity (alleles, homozygous, heterozygous, dominant, recessive, etc.) and
how to properly utilize punnett squares. This lesson plan was created by myself
and a classmate of mine who is a math major. We chose this lesson over
genetics because you can teach probability and the basis of heredity.This was
created in the Fall of 2015 in my Educational Technology class.

Step 3: Purpose of the Standard

This purpose of standard 5 is to get me, the teacher, to make connections
between concepts for my students. As a teacher it is important that students
understand concepts, and it is also very important that they are able to see how
the concepts connect to each other. In order to do this effectively I will have to
understand how my students think, ask my students challenging questions to
promote critical thinking, and have students work together in order to promote
collaboration. For example, during a biology lab for example, analyzing the
structure of a tree. I will have students in groups with the lab guide asking
questions that will promote critical thinking, and the students will have to
collaborate in order to answer the questions.

Step 4: Analysis of the Artifact

The teacher utilizes Artifact 5 and engages students and forces them to think
critically. I have learned to tie concepts in with things that are familiar to the
student. For example, at the start of the lesson there is a Brain Buster asking
about how someone with blonde hair can can have parents with brown hair.
Students either are that person with blonde hair or know someone with blonde
hair. This lesson also promotes critical thinking. The Brain Busteralso
promotes critically thinking students. In the future, I will tie in my lessons with
something relevant with my students. For example, when going over cells and
cell theory, I will use the analogy how the cell is like a small city. In the future, I
will also collaborate with my future colleagues, and have a cross curricular
lesson mapped out. I will do this to help my students hone skills they need for
other courses. For example, my students could do a close read of a scientific
article, and then later write a report on the topic.