Teaching Standard #8 Instructional Strategies
Artifact: IEP meeting reflection assignment
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.
Standard in Your Own Words: The educator comprehends and applies a variety of instructional strategies that help to strengthen students' understanding of content areas, while building skills to improve how students apply information.
Indicator: 8 (p) Is committed to deepening awareness and
understanding the strengths and needs of diverse learners when planning and adjusting instruction.
Description of Artifact: This artifact is a summary of an IEP meeting where we discuss the students current strengths and weaknesses. The meeting discussed how we are going to strengthen specific skills to build upon specific content areas.
Rationale: I chose this artifact because it represents my effort to have a better understanding of helping a specific student to build specific skills to meet certain content area standards attending an IEP meeting.