1. Personal Statement Power Point Project Erika Guidry

2. INTASC Standard, Description and Rationale Standard #8 Instructional Strategies The teacher understands and uses variety of instructional strategies to encourage learners to develop deep understanding of content areas and their connections, and to build skills to apply knowledge in meaningful ways. Name of Artifact: Personal Statement Power Point Project Date: March 20, 2013 Course: EDUC 101 Brief Description: For this assignment, I created a power point after exploring my reasons for wanting to teach. I also explained some of the traits that I possess in order to be a good teacher. In this assignment, I listed the characteristics of the students I would like to teach and the characteristics of the community I would like to teach in. In addition, I’ve listed ways that I hope to contribute to my students and community. Rationale: To document my understanding of Standard #8, Instructional Strategies, I documented my understanding of the importance of being encouraging and positive in order to be an effective teacher. It’s important to be accepting and flexible because you will have to use many different teaching strategies. I also explained the importance of my students being able to take the skills/knowledge learned inside the classroom and use them outside of the classroom.

3.  Creativity  Love kids  Help/inspire others  Being knowledgeable  Enjoy learning new things  Hours/Holidays  Teaching is interesting & challenging!!

4.  Kind/Respectful  Positive  Humble  Creative  Understanding  Enthusiastic/Encou raging  Committed  Like to learn & teach

5.  Curious  Open to learning new things  Involved  Upbeat  Students who have a good support system at home

6.  Has many opportunities/positi ve encouragement  FUN Activities/Events to get involved in  Close knit  Accepting of all people  Social

7.  I hope to influence my students and be a positive role model.  Make an impact/be someone who is not forgotten  Encourage students to be independent  Make learning fun!!

8. References Koch, J. (2012). TEACH. United States of America:Wadsworth, Cengage Learning.