Component+2

=**Component #2- Exploring and Developing Content Area Knowledge and Skills **=

What is the synthesis statement for this component supposed to include?

The synthesis statement for this component should: - discuss how you communicated to students the way your content areas is organized - discuss the challenges you have encountered when teaching particular strands and/or concepts of the content domain. To what are these challenges attributable, and how have you addressed them? - what are you strengths and areas of growth in terms of you areas of growth in terms of your content knowledge, as measured by the content domain and standards? How has this affected your approach to your instruction and assessment of student learning?

What are some examples of artifacts that could work well for this component? Try to be specific. (Maximum number of artificats: Five)

Class Photos Student Work Professional Development Goals (if they pertain to content) Syllabus

Use these two documents to name and summarize two descriptors that this component could address and what it would mean to be proficient in these descriptors: (Appendix A)

C1.1 - Confident in content material - Demonstrate continued investment in and confidence about own understanding of content area material; may also identify areas of improvement and concrete development plans C1.2 - Understands structure and vocabulary of domain - Articulates the importance of understanding the unique structure and vocabulary of the content domain and the value of communicating these concepts to students. Also able to make connections within areas of content domain.

Which assessment project(s) is most closely aligned to this component?

Informal Work Product: Analyzing Content, Standards, and Resources - includes Handout 1.5, 1.7, and 1.9