Educators implement effective practices in areas of planning, instruction, assessment, evaluation and reporting.

To reflect upon my understanding of this standard, I thought about the materials and structures unit I carried out for science during my practicum. It was the unit I was most proud of because I saw how happy, excited, and engaged my whole class was.

By doing many different sorts of “builds” and challenges, experimental and experiential learning was attained through a lot of hands-on learning. I watched my lessons I spent hours planning unfold successfully. Students were learning while they were having fun! They built towers, bridges, and cantilevers. They tested and used materials of different properties. They dropped an egg with incredibly excitement.

I thought about where I grew most in terms of instruction, assessment, evaluation, and reporting. During my practicum, I taught mathematics on a daily basis and platooned with another class. Because math is so important and there was only so little time per day allocated for it; I became more and more effective over time in the delivery of this subject. I communicated with the platooning class’s teacher about her students for teaching strategies and for sharing math marks.

This standard is incredibly vast in what it states educators should strive to become and abide by. It is really a given that teachers should hold this standard high in importance. I see myself only improving and growing as time passes when I have more experience and years under my belt in regard to this aspect of education.