Standard+5

 Home / Standard 1 / Standard 2 / Standard 3 / Standard 4 / Standard 5 / Standard 6 / Standard 7 / Standard 8 /   Standard 9 / Standard 10

**Standard 5** **Teachers know how to manage a classroom.** The teacher uses an understanding of individual and group motivation and behavior to create a learning environment that encourages positive social interaction, active engagement in learning, and self-motivation. Evidence 1: STD’s Webquest

Rationale 1: My sexually transmitted diseases webquest assignment required the students to work in a collaborative setting to research, document, present and use technology to explore their research topic. This webquest was created in my EDT 654 course. Although I have not used this webquest in my classroom yet, this project was great for my personal development because it forced me to review our schools curriculum, and design an up to date 21st century project that will push them both cognitively, socially in a group setting.

The whole design of this project was important because it demonstrates my ability to be an organized thoughtful professional in the way I manage my classroom and/or the projects created in the classroom. It demonstrates my ability to take a large project and break it down into manageable tasks. It also demonstrates my understanding for the need of order and students ability to stay on task in a classroom. The students relied on my to make sure they could get into a computer lab everyday. I also gave them some websites that they could use for resources while also giving them guidelines to follow while sitting their sources that they used during their research project. By putting the students into groups, I was able to better manage student behavior by not having the students with their “best friends”, and learn how to collaborate with other students outside of their social networks. Maintaining structure, order and creativity while having fun and learning is something I pride myself on as a teacher. Finding the appropriate balance between them is key to success whether doing research or teaching a lesson in the classroom while managing my students.

KSD


 * 5.K.2 The teacher understands how social groups function and influence people, and how people influence groups.**

In this project, the students were paired up with students that they wouldn’t normally work with. This forced the students to not only work with someone outside of their own social network, but also the opportunity to get to know something about other peers that they might not have known before this project took place.


 * 5.S.3 The teacher organizes, allocates, and manages the resources of time, space, activities, and attention to provide active and equitable engagement of students in productive tasks.**

While developing this webquest, I needed to take everything into consideration for myself, and the students. Everything from the computer labs being signed out, the grading rubrics, length and duration the presentations needed to be, how much time they had work on the presentation, to the different types of websites the students could safely use for their research and the pairs of students the kids could work with. This project took a long time to design, but will be well worth my efforts when it is added into the curriculum.


 * 5.D.5 The teacher is committed to continuous development of individual students’ abilities and considers how different motivational strategies are likely to encourage this development for each student.**

In deciding the different ways the student could research and present their presentations to the class, I knew that any type of technology would be a strong motivating factor. I also knew that the students would be more engaged in learning about their research subjects because of this. Being aware of what motivates my students allows me to be a more effective teacher. When students show a passion for a topic or subject they are in turn more motivated and engaged to learn about it. Their enthusiasm will then rub off on their partners, which will cause them to be more motivated while researching their topics.