Standard+4

**Standard 4** The teacher understands and uses a variety of instructional strategies, including the use of technology, to encourage children's development of critical thinking, problem solving, and performance skills.
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 * Teachers know how to teach. **


 * Evidence 1: Folding Chair Assembly Video**

This lesson is a video that demonstrates the process for assembly of a seat for a chair in a wood working class. The video was created for students that needed a refresher on the steps needed to complete the task. This Woodworking class had students in grades 9-12, and all grades used the video. A portable DVD player was brought in to all students to be mobile with the video. Students played, paused, rewound, and replayed to understand the steps needed.
 * Rationale 1:**

This video was a great tool for me as a teacher. Quite often I will go through a demonstration for students and it might be a week or more before some students are able to complete the task. Students will come back and ask questions to ensure they are doing the correct step. When this happens it eats up important instructural time for students that need lots of attention or students that are advanced in the class. With having another source of direction in the class, it has increased productivity and decreased down time. This video tool a little over an hour to put together but has saved countless hours of answering questions and hand holding. Students have started to ask that I create a video for all the assembly steps to allow students to work ahead as well. Their engagement and excitement about this lesson has encouraged me to create more videos.


 * KSD**


 * 4.K.3 The teacher knows how to enhance learning through the use of a wide variety of materials and technological resources (e.g. computers, audio-visual technologies, videotapes and discs, local experts, primary documents and artifacts, texts, reference books, literature, and other print resources). **

This video is used as a resource to allow students the ability to review the steps to assemble this chair without direct instruction with their instructor. It is self paced, can be paused, rewound, and played at anytime to enhance the student’s knowledge of the tasks.


 * 4.S.2 The teacher uses multiple teaching and learning strategies to engage students in active learning opportunities that promote the development of critical thinking, problem solving, and performance capabilities and that help students assume responsibility for identifying and using learning resources. **

All students first received a presentation on the steps needed to build the chair. If students were absent or need a refresher they are first required to watch the video, using their resources, before asking questions to their instructor.


 * 4. D.2 The teacher values flexibility and reciprocity in the teaching process as necessary for adapting instruction to student responses, ideas, and needs. **

With the response from my students, this video was a great resource for them. Many students watched the video and it decreased the questions on the steps greatly. Videos like this will allow me to keep students working. With future videos, students that are advanced can keep moving ahead, and students that are falling behind can use this resource to remind them of past lessons without the embarrassment of asking questions.