INTASC+Standard+5

STANDARD: 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.
 * INTASC Standard 5**

INTASC.5.C. K: The teacher knows how to help people work productively and cooperatively with each other in complex social settings. INTASC.5.D K: 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.
 * Specific Category of Standard**

The teacher understands that students need different ways to learn and many ways to interact with others. Having created a social, positive, engaging environment allows students to experience these things more on a daily basis in the classroom and learn how to work with their peers.
 * Understanding Sentence:**


 * Artifacts**
 * Science Group Project [|Bone Marrow[1.ppt]]
 * Promoting positive relationships/behavior [|Promoting behavior.doc]

Understanding how individual group motivation and behavior works in important because you want to be able to create a setting where you can encourage positive social behavior and get students to be actively engaged in learning. The first artifact I chose is a science group project I did in one of my sciences classes. I used this artifact because it demonstrates how we as a group worked productively and cooperatively with each other given complex instruction for our project. Having worked in group settings this gives me a better understanding on how to give instruction to students working in groups and enforce the importance of cooperative and productive learning in groups is. This artifact also shows me how students feel about one another and if they are not getting along I can encourage positive social interaction to overcome any troubles students may be having. A learner must learn to feel comfortable in a group setting so they can apply their social skills as an individual. The second artifact I chose is a paper I have written over promoting positive relationships and behavior. This paper shows that I fully understand the principles of effective classroom management and will be able to use many strategies to promote positive relationships. My artifact describes the 5 strategies that I have come up with to understand and incorporate positive relationships in my future classroom.
 * Reflect**

The two artifacts I chose reflect my personal philosophy and theory about promoting good behavior and encouraging positive social interaction in my future classroom. I have learned that working in group/cooperative settings can be difficult but having seen good social interaction modeled it helped me understand how group settings work and that they can create meaningful learning for students. I have also learned how children think and work in a social setting and that's why I have come up with 5 strategies for helping and encouraging positive behavior. Through my own experiences and observing children I have gained a greater insight for creating different learning environments that allow me to model and incorporate social interaction and self motivation. As a future teacher my artifact shows my understanding of children and how I want to really model and promote social interaction and self motivation in my room. These artifacts have prepared me for the future and show my range of understanding how important group motivation and behavior is. I care about all children and I want them to get along as best they can so incorporating my strategies in my classroom is very important. As I begin my PDS I will know exactly what to do in certain situations where group motivation and learning is occurring. Having developed different strategies and understanding how group setting work I feel prepared going into the field of teaching, promoting and modeling positive interactions.
 * Project**