Standard+1

** Teachers know the subjects they are teaching. **  The teacher understands the central concepts, tools of inquiry, and structures of the disciplines she or he teaches and can create learning experiences that make these aspects of subject matter meaningful for pupils
 * Standard 1 **

Evidence1: Bug Lesson Plan Rationale 1: This evidence is a lesson plan created as an end project to a unit on bugs with 4 year old kindergarten students. The lesson involved teaching the students how to draw pictures on the computer of their favorite bug that they had learned about over the last two weeks of the unit. The students created a picture using the computer program Claris Works for Kids. This was the students first time using the computers in the computer lab at school. I taught the students how to use the mouse, and buttons to do the activity. This lesson plan was created for the course EDT 650.

In order to complete this activity, the students needed to be taught how to manipulate a computer. In order to teach this lesson, I needed to be competent in the subject matter, and know how to assist the students on this program. The students benefitted from this lesson by understanding the basic components of the computer and how to use it. Following the lesson, the students understood how to use the program Claris Works for Kids and understood how to use a mouse on the computer.

KSD: 1.K.1 The teacher understands the major concepts, assumptions, debates, processes of inquiry, and ways of knowing that are central to the discipline(s) s/he teaches. // To teach this lesson, I needed to understand how to use the computer program Claris Works for Kids and how to incorporate the activity into what the students were learning about. //

1.S.1 The teacher effectively uses multiple representations and explanations of disciplinary concepts that capture key ideas and links them to students’ prior understandings. // This lesson was a completion lesson to a study on bugs. This activity allowed students to use a different activity to understand the information we had learned. After the students created their picture they were instructed to tell me one key thing they learned about the bug they chose. I typed the information on their drawing. This activity allowed the students to use multiple representations to explain what they had learned. //

1.D.3 The teacher has enthusiasm for the discipline(s) s/he teaches and sees connections to everyday life. // In order to teach this lesson, I had to be excited about using the computers and patient with the children who had never used one before. I had to show excitement while teaching how to use the computer and excitement for the children’s work and progress with using the program. //