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Common Core Teacher Standards (CCTS) Alignment & Justification (Field/Student Teaching Only)
Standard #5: Innovative Applications of Content: The teacher understands how to connect concepts and
use differing perspectives to engage leaners in critical thinking and collaborative problem solving related to
authentic local and global issues.
Rationale: The teacher has created a lesson where the students are using their critical thinking skills to make
guesses on what building in colonial villages. The teacher engages the learners in questioning and
challenging assumptions by using a PowerPoint.
Standard #6: Assessment: The teacher understands and uses multiple methods of assessments to engage
learners in their own growth, to document progress, and to guide the teachers on-going planning and
instruction.
Rationale: The teacher has created a lesson that uses multiple means of assessment, including student self
and formative. For student self, Students will fill out a lesson reflection. They will decide if they met the
learning target, are still working on it, or need help. They will also explain why they gave themselves the
particular rating. For formative, Students will be asked to create a colonial village. Students will
answer questions on New England, Middle and Southern Colonies, and the teacher will observe the
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students colonial villages. The teacher will regroup the class, and go over the answers. The teacher
understands that using these different forms of assessment will help guide future planning.
Standard #7: Planning for Instruction: The teacher draws upon knowledge of content areas, cross-
disciplinary skills, learners, the community, and pedagogy to plan instruction that supports every student in
meeting rigorous learning goals.
Rationale: The teacher is creating a lesson plan that will support every students learning goals in the
classroom by planning well in advance. The teacher knows the students well and understands how
each of them learn and what works best for them and what doesnt work. The teacher also has
planned for the lesson weeks in advance. The teacher has thought about the modifications and
accommodations for students.
Standard #8: Instructional Strategies: The teacher understands and uses a variety of instructional
strategies to encourage learners to develop deep understanding of content areas and their connections, and to
build skills to access and appropriately apply information.
Rationale: The teacher understands how to get the students engaged throughout the lesson. The teacher has
created a lesson where the teacher uses a variety of multiple instructional strategies including, cooperative
learning, cues, questions and advance organizers, non-linguistic representation, summarizing and
note Taking, and setting objectives and providing feedback to help encourage learners to develop
understanding and be engaged all throughout the lesson.
Standard #11: ISTE #2: Design and develop digital age learning experiences and assessments: Teachers
design, develop, and evaluate authentic learning experiences and assessments incorporating contemporary
tools and resources to maximize content learning in context and to develop the knowledge, skills, and
attitudes identified in the standards.
Rationale: The teacher has a created a lesson that is customized to the students learning styles and needs.
The teacher understands that the students love when technology is incorporated into the lesson, therefore, the
teacher has created a lesson using a PowerPoint. The students and the teacher will use the PowerPoint to
answer questions about colonial homes and make observations about colonial villages, and learn about
colonial buildings.
Post-Lesson Reflection: The lesson went very well for multiple reasons. One reason is that the
students were actively engaged, respectful and safe all throughout the lesson. This was successful
because I used good classroom management strategies, and planned a lesson where it met all of the
students needs. The lesson grasped the students attention when we did a fun game called stand
up to introduce the topic. Then we went into a guided discussion with a PowerPoint on colonial
homes, and colonial villages. After having the guided discussion, the students got to apply their
knowledge and create their own village by coloring and cutting the buildings into their student
activity packet. The students also got to name their village. The students loved this interactive
lesson.
One thing that I did well was that at the beginning of the lesson, I went through the game plan for
the day, and made sure the students know what they are going to be doing during the lesson.
Another thing I did well, is use good classroom management skills by using a variety of strategies
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like, walk around the classroom, wait time, and call on particular students who are misbehaving. I
also made sure that the students have their materials at the beginning of class, so they dont have to
get up in the middle of class to grab their materials. All of these went well because I was prepared
for the lesson.
One thing that needs fine tuning is that I need to make sure that all of the students are ready for
further instruction, and I should also pace my lessons better meaning, managing class time. Some
ways I can enhance this area is to to make sure that I have all of my students attention before
giving directions. I could allow a wait time, and make quick eye contact with all of the students
before giving out the directions. I can also have the students repeat the directions, that way I can if
the students understand the directions. I could also do a thumb check after stating the directions.
Since I teach three Social Studies lessons, so I can decide what I want to change based on the first
class. After two classes, I decided that the students should cut out the building pieces before
coloring and gluing them on template because in the two prior classes half of the students did not
glue their villages down because it was taking so long to cut out of the pieces. Looking through the
grade book, 1 out of 17 students did not meet the standard, 4 out of 17 students partially met the
standard, 6 out of 17 students met the standard, 3 out of 17 students exceed the standard, and three
students were absent. Overall, this lesson went very well because it met all of the students needs,
and it was very engaging and interactive.
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