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.

For this artifact I chose to use an ELA Lesson Plan for an 11th or 12th grade classroom. I decided to use the lesson plan for Standard 8 because I believe that it fits well under ” 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.” In this lesson plan I used story maps to develop deeper understanding of the text that we were reading, as well as having appropriately applying information by using these story maps. During the presentation of my lesson plan I used many different types of instructional strategies, starting off with a hook that forced the “students” to get up and move and think about how stories/maps change based on how much information is given to the reader, another example would be when I showed my own thought process when going through a story map on my own before making the “students” do it on their own.

This lesson plan will help me as a future teacher because I can look back on the things that I did well and what I need to improve on in my writing of lesson plans. As someone who will have to teach students many different skills it is important that I am able to convey what needs to be taught but also while keeping the students engaged and feel like it is not boring or busy work that I am making them do. To teach these skills to students is necessary to help them improve in not only ELA but other subjects as well and for the future career paths that they may choose.