Educators implement effective planning, instruction, assessment and reporting practices to create respectful, inclusive environments for student learning and development.
Standard 5 means that educators should have the knowledge to facilitate learning for all students. This means that the educator needs to plan accordingly for the lesson and be prepared before it starts. Educators provide safe, respectful and inclusive environments for all students no matter who they are or what they are being taught. Standard 5 is also about effective communication and collaboration. We have been told multiple times that teaching is about working with others and it is good to collaborate with other educators on a lesson. Educators need to have effective communication both with each other and with their students.
The artefact I have for standard 5 is a picture of a science lesson I taught the students. It was close to St. Patrick’s Day and the K/1 curriculum has weather and light in it so we made rainbows using coffee filters and markers (chromatography). The students were to colour their coffee filter using the colours of the rainbow, then I sprayed them with a little bit of water so that the colours would run together. While their coffee filters were drying, they drew and cut out their clouds and decorated them.
The artefact relates to standard 5 because in this lesson I made my expectations very clear. This lesson had the potential to turn messy so I explicitly said that the students need to use placemats to colour their coffee filters and that I would be the one spraying the water because there had been messes before. I was proactive with the students and anticipated that they were going to ask things like “do I have to use all of the colours of the rainbow” and “can I spray the water jusr once” during the lesson. I respectfully told them what the expectations were for the lesson. There was minimal loss of time as well because while the first part was drying the students were supposed to be working on the second part of the learning activity. This lesson was a little bit of collaboration in that my coaching teacher had done something similar before and I had also done this lesson in an Active Minds STEM camp before.