Standard6

@Standard1 | @Standard2 | @Standard3 | @Standard4 | @Standard5 | @Standard6 | @Standard7 | @Standard8 | @Standard9 | @Standard10 Home **Standard 6**  ** Teachers communicate well. ** // The teacher uses effective verbal and nonverbal communication techniques as well as instructional media and technology to foster active inquiry, collaboration, and supportive interaction in the classroom. //

**Evidence 1: Basic Equation Lesson Plan [|Basic Equation Lesson Plan.doc]**

**Rationale 1:** In certain aspects, technology is most difficult to apply to mathematics. When inputting math equations in a computer, the software requires often tedious inputting of a language that may seem like a foreign language to students. Many programs exist that allow us to input mathematical data, but none of them are as easy as typing on a keyboard. It is a process that students must learn. In my first lesson of the class, I teach students to do this and provide them with a video tutorial of three different technology software examples to input this data, Microsoft Word, Moodle and SMART Board Math Tools. This is imperative to our class because eventually students will be required to submit assignments online so they need to familiarize and master these tools. My video in this lesson is always available for students and communicates this daunting process. They then can use the talked about software to communicate on Moodle and submit work and inquiries online. For example, instead of students putting off work and having to use class time asking questions about the math in a concurring project to the class, they can submit a question in Moodle using the Math Equation Editor and can continue to work on the project. This lesson requires students to master the skill of equation input using technology and shows that with a story problem creation at the end. They are then equipped to communicate with using those skills. The video is also a communication tactic, as are all tutorials, for students to use when I am not available. I have yet to fully implement this lesson, but have found that students who already have these skills are more apt to use them when the opportunity arises to enhance their work on projects, activities and study techniques. For me it just moves my class into the direction of implementing more technology in the future, which is my goal.

**KSD**

// 6.K.4 The teacher recognizes the importance of nonverbal, verbal and media communication techniques. //

Moving into the 21st Century, students need to utilize technology to its full potential. In math, it is an entirely different process to learn and is difficult to just incorporate immediately into content. This lesson teaches those skills of communicating using both technology and mathematical language, further enhancing their overall implementation of technology in the math classroom. Students can than use the media software to compute and create and can spend less time focusing on the process, and more time applying the concepts.

// 6.S.5 The teacher knows how to use a variety of media communication tools, including audiovisual aids and computers, to enrich learning opportunities. //

In this lesson, I created a video using iMovie to communicate the skills to the students. They then have access to this for the rest of the course if they need to reinforce it later. I then offer them three different software programs to utilize when incorporating math into communicating technologically and creating media projects.

// 6.D.1 The teacher recognizes the power of language for self-expression, identity development, and learning. //

By learning this skill set, students are allowed to be more creative using technology in the class. For years, while in other classes technology was easily integrated for creative measures, in math, it had to be one or the other, creativity or mathematics. After this lesson, this mindset will be a thing of the past and students will be able to utilize one without aspect without neglecting the other. For example, one project at the end of the course will have the students creating and teaching a lesson to others that will require technology. This way they will be able to put their own creative stamp on their lesson to further engage the learner. They will also be able to do this while clearly communicating the information in the lesson.