Creating High Performance Learning Environments

How lessons in your subject field can reflect the diversity of your community, region, country, or world. My subject field is physical/general science. In this subject I can incorporate diversity of my community, region and country by addressing the different cultures in projects or material that we are reading. In physical science we talk about different regions of the world such as in the topic of geology. In a lesson that studies rocks I can show the students that the society of the United States is not only founded on it's own but relies on that of other regions of the earth. For example, students will learn that things we use in our everyday lives come from resources that  are created, produced, and molded in  other areas of the world.  A rationale for why it is important to introduce students to multicultural content and multiple perspectives. It is important to introduce students to multicultural content and multiple perspectives in order to prepare students for the

Lesson plan: Newton's Second Law of Motion (Force=Mass x Acceleration) Student Group: High School Physical Science Differentiated instruction: Students Targeted : Being able to teach to a diverse group of students is important to the success of any classroom. This blog is going to be dedicated to the student who is either  disengaged or struggling.  The lesson that I will be teaching needs to have diverse learning and teaching strategies that can aid in engaging students who are not interested, having trouble staying awake, not doing their homework or participating in class, or struggling to understand and grasp the content. For a student who is disengaged they may be dealing with personal issues at home or are just not interested in the topic. It is up to teachers to try and engage and motivate the student as much as possible. For a student who is struggling with the content it is very important to gauge the classroom as a whole. For example if you are noticing that

High School Physical Science Assessment Strategies As a future teacher it's important to understand what your role as an educator is. A teacher plays many roles in student's lives and one of them is to make sure your students are fully "getting" the content that you're teaching. This blog post is going to address both summative and formative assessments that will help me as a teacher evaluate the student's performance to see if students are grasping it. The standard that these are going to be applied to is the --  HS-PS2-1. Analyze data to support the claim that Newton’s second law of motion describes the mathematical relationship among the net force on a macroscopic object, its mass, and its acceleration. Formative Assessment - "Quiz Breaks" One formative assessment strategy that I can apply is by doing "Quiz Breaks." After a lesson has been fully taught, an opportunity for any questions have been answered, and practice questi