3.

1 Classroom Management & Collaborative Learning

Model and facilitate effective classroom management and collaborative learning strategies to maximize
teacher and student use of digital tools and resources.

For this artifact, I had to watch a teaching video of approximately 25 minutes. While watching the video,
I had to analyze the teaching that was taking place. I also had to analyze the learning and instructional
strategies that were taking place. The video included the use of technology; however, in my opinion it
was not well done. I had a lot of feedback to provide from the analysis of this teaching strategy.

This artifact demonstrates my mastery of this standard not through doing but rather evaluating and
suggesting improvements. By analyzing this video, I was able to identify and evaluate the effectiveness
of the teaching that took place. One of the elements I observed in the video was classroom
management. I found that the classroom management strategies that this teacher used were ineffective
overall. The lesson opened up with the teacher doing a review, of which many students did not
participate. There ended up being very little engagement overall and some students were disengaged
from the entire lesson without any evidence of redirection. The teacher assigned a project after the
warm up in which students were required to engage in collaborative learning through hands on
knowledge gathering. However, the task for the project was highly inauthentic and did not facilitate any
actual learning. When it came time for the students to begin the project, many students were confused
on exactly what they were supposed to be doing because the warm up was unrelated to the project
content and there was no modeling that took place to set the stage for students. Among my suggestions
for improvement included using a more engaging and relevant warm up using a digital tool such as
Quizlet Live so that all students can be engaged in what was going on from the very beginning of the
class. Additional suggestions included using a jigsaw strategy so engage all students in the assignment
and/or warm up. Because

This artifact was actually one of my favorites. I learned how to look at instruction from an objective
point of view. After mastering this, I learned how to non-threating suggestions. I felt that this artifact
gave me the opportunity to develop skills that I would need to be an effective department chair. I think
the best thing I could do to improve this artifact would simply be to conduct more observations and
practice analyzing and suggesting areas of improvement.

The work that went into creating this artifact could benefit the faculty and school as a whole
significantly because I can offer my experience with analyzing and improving instruction. If I were able to
share the activity that goes along with this artifact, teachers would be able to learn how to build their
repository of effective teaching strategies through observation and reflection. The impact of this could
be assessed through classroom observations.