Jodi McFarland INST 6213

How can the creation of a student sample help me clarify my unit expectations and improve my instructional design? How can I ensure students will achieve the learning objectives when creating their student projects? Creating a student sample will help me clarify my unit expectations and improve instructional strategies by guiding my understanding as a teacher how my students are perceiving the lesson and it's content. It can expose problems with the lesson or unit before it begins and allows the teacher time to edit the lesson to be more effective. A student sample provides me with a clearer understanding of exactly how students will complete tasks and what results I can most accurately expect. Creating a student sample can improve instructional strategies. In Art, a student sample is especially important for the lesson plan. A final project that is already completed by the teacher sets an example for expectations and clarifies to students what the final project should look like ...

This module has helped me understand how the various technology integration frameworks apply to the lessons I will present in the following ways... Integrating technology into the classroom can be a great benefit to students and teachers. TPACK helped me understand how implement content knowledge, pedagogy, and technology together to effectively implement technology. SAMR helped me understand what types of technology integrations there area and how to build to more complex integration. Substitution (S) and Augmentation (A) enhance learning while Modification (M) and Redefinition (R) transform the learning experience. Using the standard for integrating technology will help me enhance and transform the classroom experience for my students. I also really enjoyed watching the Cool Tool presentations and finding out about new technology resources I could show my students was interesting. I found a few tools I could use, but that can be difficult in the Art classroom at times, especially w...

This module has helped me think about using standards, CFQs, or 21st-century skills in the following ways... I learned a lot about standards, CFQs, and 21st Century Skills in this module. As a high school Art teacher, sometimes current 9-12 Art Education standards can be difficult to implement because they are designed for students who have taken art before in middle or elementary school. Most, if not all of my students, have never taken an art class before. New Art standards were created last year with multiple levels: novice, intermediate, accomplished, and advanced. The new standards are much easier to work with in a diverse classroom. I started to think about those standards and how I can engage my students in a meaningful and purposeful way. I want my students to value art and engaging them with curriculum-framing questions and 21st century skills is a great place to start. Curriculum-framing questions were difficult for me to apply to art at first, but I started to think about ...

This article has made me think about my role as an instructional designer in the following ways... To design effective lesson plans that are meaningful and purposeful, teachers must deeply consider how their students are learning and how to best present and evaluate performance. Lesson plans should be student centered learning experiences that will be remembered and demonstrated proficiently by the students.  There are two extremes in the approach of instructional design; teacher and classroom-centered instructional design and student and learning-centered instructional design. Teacher and classroom-centered instructional design focuses on teacher performance, activities, classroom events and experiences, and lesson planning only addresses the teacher's time with students. Student and learning-centered instructional design focuses on what kind of thinking students will do, what intellectual skills will they develop, what students take away from classroom events and experienc...