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= Standard 2 Teachers know how children grow. = The teacher understands how children with broad ranges of ability learn and provides instruction that supports their intellectual, social, and personal development. Evidence 1: Lesson Plan using Inspiration Rationale 1: The students were able to use what they have researched and organize their information in a creative way (using Inspiration). This allowed the students to construct their own graphic organizer, which is something they enjoyed and were proud of. Since students are at different levels in their learning, this project allowed for a lot of differentiation. The students were also able to socially interact with their peers when sharing their graphic organizers.

KSD 2.K.1 The teacher understands how learning occurs—how students construct knowledge, acquire skills, and develop habits of mind—and how to use instructional strategies that promote student learning for a wide range of student abilities. This lesson allows students of varying ability levels to create graphic organizers that display what they have learned. 2.S.2 The teacher stimulates student reflection on prior knowledge and links new ideas to already familiar ideas, making connections to students’ experiences, providing opportunities for active engagement, manipulation, and testing of ideas and material, and encouraging students to assume responsibility for shaping their learning tasks. Since the students needed to create their own graphic organizers from what they have learned, they needed to make connections. Students also took responsibility for their learning by using what they have learned and creating a final product with the information. 2.D.2 The teacher appreciates individual variation at each developmental level and shows respect for the diverse talents of all learners, and is committed to help them develop self-confidence and competence. I knew that the Inspiration graphic organizers would vary. Some students are more advanced and created very in-depth graphic organizers, while other created more basic ones. As long as the students showed that they could organize their information, they received full credit for the assignment