Description of Artifact: MEES Specific Lesson Plans Date: Spring 2024

Standards Addressed:

5C2: Demonstrates competence in managing time, space, transitions, and activities to create an effective learning environment.

5C3: Recognizes and identifies the influence of classroom, school and community culture on student relationships and the impact on the classroom environment and learning.

1C1: Demonstrates knowledge of academic language for discipline in certification area(s) sought as defined by the Subject Competencies for Beginning Teachers in Missouri.

1C2: Demonstrates content knowledge and ability to use multiple subject specific methodologies for instructional purposes to engage students. 

1C3: Understands how to engage students in the methods of inquiry and research in respective discipline.

1C4: Can create and implement interdisciplinary lessons that are aligned with standards.

1C5: Demonstrates understanding of diverse cultural perspectives by creating and implementing lessons to introduce those perspectives, recognizing the potential for bias.

Rationale: 

Many of these lessons were created with the intention of creating more layered lessons, capable of meeting numerous standards and fulfilling literacy initiatives. I really enjoyed teaching these lessons. They were a lot of planning on the front end but they made for really engaging conversation and the students really seemed to grasp on to these concepts well even if they felt odd for a dance class (my students words not mine) . We took a deep dive into movement generation in each of these lessons and focused on finding our artistic voices. I hope to hold lessons this layered as target lesson for each unit in the future.