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Standard 4 - Teachers know how to teach.
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.

Rationale:
This unit introduces students to several famous entrepreneurs. Using a Pecha Kucha, I give students some examples of famous entrepreneurs that they know of. Then at random, the students pick a famous entrepreneur that they would like to research.

With the information they found, they needed to create a poster, quiz questions about the entrepreneur, and a podcast that students could listen to. Through the use of a classroom set of iPods, the students would listen to each other’s podcasts answering the quiz questions that were created.

This unit was created for EDT604 iPods in the Classroom. I plan on using it in my Introduction to Business class, but have not yet had the opportunity to do so. This activity shows my ability to create a different typed of assessment using technology. I think it is important to use current technology in the class, such as iPods. Students enjoy using the new technology and seem to be more motivated to complete the project and have fun doing so.

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 project enhances student learning by allowing them to create a podcast that is then listened to in the classroom through iPods, a technology that just about every student currently uses outside of school. Students also use a variety of technologies to conduct their research and create the podcast.

//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.// This project promotes critical thinking and problem solving by requiring students to conduct research use a variety of learning resources such as the Internet and books to determining what information is important. The students are then required to create a podcast by using their own experiences and the instruction handout that was given to them.

//4.D.2 The teacher values flexibility and reciprocity in the teaching process as necessary for adapting instruction to student responses, ideas, and needs.// The unit plan for this unit does give a daily guideline of what should be accomplished each day. However there is a section called “Comments” at the end of each day. In this area is where I would make notes of what was not accomplished, what the students need more time on, or what I would do differently next time I taught this lesson.