ADEPT+5

=Using instructional strategies to facilitate learning=

“An effective teacher promotes student learning through the effective use of appropriate instructional strategies.”
A good teacher teaches in a way which is relevant to their students. This is important to me because I think it is really easy for teachers to teach using strategies which seem easy/acceptable to them, but I know it is more important to look at how students are learning and if they are responding well to your teaching instead of thinking about what works best for you.


 * Evidence:**

This is a lesson which I created. I feel like it applies to this standard well because it takes something most students don’t like (poetry) and looks at it from the standpoint of something they all love (music). It made the material being covered (Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and literary devices) relevant to their interests and therefore was a good strategy to approach students who have struggled with the poetry unit.
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