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**Standard 1** ** Teachers know the subjects they are teaching. **  The teacher understands the central concepts, tools of inquiry, and structures of the disciplines she or he teaches and can create learning experiences that make these aspects of subject matter meaningful for pupils

Evidence1:

Rationale 1: When teaching writing, I focus lessons on the individual traits of writing. This lesson focused on having students identifying good word choice in literature and implementing good word choice in their own writing. When creating this lesson plan, it was necessary for me to have a knowledgeable grasp on what good word choice looks like. This required me to become an active reader in my own reading. In addition, I had to identify good word choice in literature that my students read. As an educator it is important for me to be an expert in the content that I’m teaching. Providing my students with a lesson in word choice makes them better and more vivid writers.

KSD:

Prior to creating this lesson, I used a variety of resources to broaden my knowledge of good word choice. Also, I looked under different genres to find good word choice in literature.

1.K.3 The teacher relates his/her disciplinary knowledge to other subject areas curriculum materials for their Comprehensiveness, accuracy, and usefulness in representing particular ideas.

During the lesson, I used various example of good word choice with the students. In addition, the students provided the class with examples from their own reading.

1.S.1 The teacher effectively uses multiple representations and explanations of disciplinary concepts that capture key ideas and links them to students’ prior understandings.

The source of examples for good word choice was found in a book that I read, allowing me to show how reading for fun can relate to the classroom content.

1.D.3 The teacher has enthusiasm for the discipline(s) s/he teaches and sees connections to everyday life.