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Portfolio4 Intasc Standard 4 Content Knowledge

The teacher understands the central concepts and structures of the disciplines being taught. This includes creating meaningful learning experiences that help students master the content, and integrating culturally relevant content to build on students' background knowledge. When teaching language arts, words familiar to the students and their culture were used. Students wrote sentences using their own interests and experiences. A vocabulary charades game was played to help students develop a deep understanding of word meanings in a fun way.

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Portfolio4 Intasc Standard 4 Content Knowledge

The teacher understands the central concepts and structures of the disciplines being taught. This includes creating meaningful learning experiences that help students master the content, and integrating culturally relevant content to build on students' background knowledge. When teaching language arts, words familiar to the students and their culture were used. Students wrote sentences using their own interests and experiences. A vocabulary charades game was played to help students develop a deep understanding of word meanings in a fun way.

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INTASC Standard #4

CONTENT KNOWLEDGE
The teacher understands the central concepts, tools of
inquiry, and structures of the disciplines 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.
Evidence 4m: The teacher knows how to integrate culturally
Culturally relevant content was
addressed in many ways. When
relevant content to build on learners background
teaching language arts, words knowledge.
familiar to the student and their
culture were taught and talked
about. Students were asked to
write sentences using their
interests and experiences.
Learning experiences were
made meaningful by having the
class do vocabulary charades.
When doing so, the person
acting out the word had to have
a deep understanding of the
word, as did the class in order
to recognize what word was
being acted out.
Narrative
Charades was chosen as the activity because it really created a
Reflection fun learning activity for the students. It was a great way to
integrate all of the students prior background knowledge, and
Using charades was a great build upon it even more. By giving the students a word to both
way to have class participation act out and a word to guess, these words automatically give
and make the learning them a deeper meaning and understanding. Students will be
experience fun. The students able to recall what a word means because they will remember
how to act it out or what it looks like in action. The words that
were excited to partake in this were chosen for charades were all words that the students had
engaging learning game. In the been introduced to and were working on remembering what
future, charades could be their exact meaning was. These words were culturally relevant
something I implement on a to them and were words that we use in everyday life.
weekly, biweekly, or monthly
basis. I could use them with
spelling words or vocabulary
words, or integrate other
subjects such as social studies,
science, and math and have the
students act out those
definitions and meanings.

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