There are many reasons to pick a teacher for a job. I can help the students and be a good teacher by doing these three things: I can have a growth mind-set when teaching, I can use different learning styles to teach students, I can have some project-based learning lessons. These all will help myself and the students become the best we can be. I will explain how I can use these to better the students learning and how this will affect them in the long run. Growth mind-set is to describe the underlying beliefs people have about learning and intelligence. People see learning all types of ways. Some may see it as necessary and some may see it as not so necessary. I believe the learning and having an education is very important and that all students …show more content…
Learning styles are an individual’s unique approach to learning based on students’ strengths, weaknesses, and preferences. I can see what my students’ strengths, weaknesses, and preferences are and use them to style my teaching around those. With the different learning styles, there is always certain instructional goals that need to be met. Instructional goals are a statement that describes what learners should be able to do. I can make sure the students’ understand how the lesson could help them later in life. These will help me with helping the students become the best learners they can be. With learning styles and instructional goals, you can also use instructional scaffolding, which is a process through which a teacher adds supports for students in order to enhance learning and aid in the mastery of tasks. By using instructional scaffolding, the students will understand the lesson and be able to succeed when doing the project to be assigned …show more content…
I will use project-based learning when teaching some lessons. Project-based learning is a teaching method in which students gain knowledge and skills by working for a complex period of time to investigate and respond to an authentic, engaging, and complex question, problem, or challenge. I will teach a lesson that will get them ready for a group project that will be assigned after the lesson. With project-based learning, you will use cooperative learning, which is a successful teaching strategy in which small teams, each with students of different levels of ability, use a variety of learning activities to improve their understanding of a subject. This can help students who are struggling to work with students who are not struggling. This will help bring up the students who need the help. If work in groups, then they will be able to do the project at the end with greater ease. When you teach a lesson and have a project at the end, you are using summative assessment. Summative assessment can assess a student’s mastery of a topic after instruction. When you only teach a lesson, you are using, formative assessment, which seek to determine how students are progressing through a certain goal. I can help the students through a summative lesson that will have a project to be done at the end that will help me understand how much they took out of the