INTASC+Standard+05

__INTASC Standard 05__

The teacher uses an understanding of individual and group motivation and behavior to create a learning environment that encourages positive social interaction, active engagement in learning, and self-motivation.

__Specific Category of Standard 05__

INTASC.5.D The teacher understands the principles of effective classroom management and can use a range of strategies to promote positive relationships, cooperation, and purposeful learning in the classroom.

__Understanding Sentence__

The teacher uses his or her knowledge of students' motivation and behavior to create a classroom that encourages collaboration and interaction among students, to keep students focused on the objective, and build self-motivation.

__Artifacts__
 * Classroom Management and Discipline Plan, Map, and Map Description

__Reflect__

This artifact directly relates to INTASC.5.D. in that it outlines my personal management and behavior plan. My plan includes positive and negative consequences, credits specific learning theories (such as constructivist and behaviorist), describes classroom rules, classroom procedures, discusses how I will gain student support and how I will gain parental support. This also includes a classroom map that takes small group and whole group collaboration into consideration. The classroom map is labeled and each aspect in the map is justified or explained. The map contains a lot of centers and spaces to provide options and take full advantage of different types of learning styles and resources. Because it has three distinct parts (the map, map description and explanation, as well as the management plan), I have chosen it to stand alone to represent INTASC standard 5.

__Project__

This artifact truly captures my current management philosophy at the time of its completion (Fall 2008). It reflects what I was learning during that time (constructivism and behaviorism) and is a true snapshot of my evolving philosophy. As I have taken more courses and the characteristics of learning theories have begun to sort themselves out in my mind, I have really started to mold my beliefs about learning and teaching. I find that the only consistency is the regularity with which I adjust my teaching philosophy. Basically, this artifact says that this philosophy is what I believe at this time (Fall 2008) and if I were to replace it with a map that I did this semester (Spring 2009), it would be slightly different and a little bit more evolved. As a learner, this says that I am constantly acquiring more information, processing it, and then adopting what I feel fits what I believe will be effective. This artifact says that I am still trying to find ways to improve what I know and can do.