{"id":30,"date":"2015-05-26T12:33:09","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T16:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/espace.bsu.edu\/akhouck\/?page_id=30"},"modified":"2016-04-16T13:32:45","modified_gmt":"2016-04-16T17:32:45","slug":"standard-four","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/espace.bsu.edu\/akhouck\/intasc-reflections\/intasc-standards\/standard-four\/","title":{"rendered":"Standard Four"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Standard #4 &#8211; Content Knowledge<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>The teacher candidate understands the central concepts, tools of inquiry, and structures of the discipline(s) he or she teaches and creates learning experiences that make these aspects of the discipline accessible and meaningful for learners to assure mastery of the content.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Summer 2015:<\/em> The origin\u00a0of my career in educations lies with\u00a0my experience in the field of chemistry. \u00a0My experience and knowledge is the framework\u00a0of the happenings in my future classroom, but I must find real life applications that relate to my students in order to portray my excitement in the subject area. \u00a0Using the natural curiosity of students to answer authentic questions is a modern way of instruction to engage today&#8217;s learners.<\/p>\n<p><em>Autumn 2015:<\/em> \u00a0Content mastery is integral to effective teaching.\u00a0 After being away from my field more than a decade, I was certain that I would struggle with recalling certain information.\u00a0 While this has only been the case twice this semester, the most encouraging fact for me is that I not only recall the chemistry content, but truly understand it and can explain it better than I ever have.\u00a0 It is exciting to be able to do this!\u00a0 I make every attempt to generate activities and labs that utilize common materials and actions that may be found in my students\u2019 every day lives, and I label these activities \u201creal-life\u201d science throughout this portfolio.\u00a0 My hope is that by making content more relatable, my students will have a better mastery of it and will retain it for future use.<\/p>\n<p><em>Spring 2016:<\/em> Teaching is more than content. \u00a0Period. \u00a0Without a mastery of this material, there can be no concern for student engagement or classroom management. \u00a0 \u00a0My students need to both question and understand the world around them and my job is to use\u00a0my knowledge basis of chemistry and relate it to my students&#8217; real-life experiences in meaningful ways. \u00a0Content is the easy part. \u00a0Engagement is where the challenge lies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/espace.bsu.edu\/akhouck\/category\/intasc-4\/\">Here is a link to my work relating to InTASC4<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/espace.bsu.edu\/akhouck\/2015\/06\/26\/intasc-4-connections\/\">.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Standard #4 &#8211; Content Knowledge The teacher candidate understands the central concepts, tools of inquiry, and structures of the discipline(s) he or she teaches and creates learning experiences that make &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/espace.bsu.edu\/akhouck\/intasc-reflections\/intasc-standards\/standard-four\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Standard Four<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"parent":20,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-30","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/espace.bsu.edu\/akhouck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/espace.bsu.edu\/akhouck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/espace.bsu.edu\/akhouck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/espace.bsu.edu\/akhouck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/espace.bsu.edu\/akhouck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/espace.bsu.edu\/akhouck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1227,"href":"https:\/\/espace.bsu.edu\/akhouck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions\/1227"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/espace.bsu.edu\/akhouck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/espace.bsu.edu\/akhouck\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}