InTASC Standards Rationale Page

Standard #1: Learner Development

The teacher understands how learners grow and develop, recognizing that patterns of learning
and development vary individually within and across the cognitive, linguistic, social, emotional,
and physical areas, and designs and implements developmentally appropriate and challenging
learning experiences.
Name of Artifact: Girls and Boys
Date: December 8, 2014
Course: EDUC 101
Brief Description:
InTASC Standard 1 is one of the more basic but one of the most important InTASC
standards. Every person is different and learns in many different ways. Once someone realizes
this, it will be easier to teach people as someone can then adapt the way that they teach to the
different learning styles of different individuals.
Rationale:
This research paper goes over how boys and girls are different in development and in
many other ways, knowing that two different genders are not the same is something that many
people know, but it is not until someone knows this and can change their teaching style to follow
InTASC 1. It is then that someone can be an effective teacher and help lessons apply to more
differences than just gender.