1A: Demonstrating Knowledge of Content and Pedagogy
- Pedagogy: the method and practice of teaching
- Know Your Material
- Know the Content
- Balance the Content
- Preparation
- Big and little ideas
- Teach both ways
- Have Appropriate Scaffolds
- Know your students
- Change your material for them
- Refer back to your knowledge base
- Apply Student Strengths
- Think of how student's learn best
- visual
- auditory
- kinesthetic
- Think of how student's learn best
- Essential Information
- Stay on the topic
- Appropriate info
- Parallels and Connections
- Apply lesson to the real world
- Student's lives
- Prevent Misconceptions
- Indicators
- Signs you are at the distinguished level
- clear expectations
- accurate answers to the questions
- lesson plan with important concepts
- Signs you are at the distinguished level