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** Teachers know the subjects they are teaching. **  The teacher understands the central teaches and can create learning experiences that make these aspects of subject matter meaningful for pupils
 * Standard 1 **

** Evidence 1: ** Civil Rights Research Project Wiki

** Rationale 1: ** The Civil Rights lesson was designed for 8th grade social studies. This lesson was designed to analyze events and impacts of Civil Rights Movement using technology. The design of the lesson offers students some choices as to what their roles will be in their groups. It gives students the opportunity to work with technology at their own pace to discover information about the Civil Rights Movement. This evidence demonstrates how the subject matter in social studies can be made meaningful for pupils.

This lesson is important to my development as a teacher because it is important to be able to present subject matter in a way that engages all learners.

** KSD: **

** 1.K. 2 The teacher understands how students’ conceptual frameworks and their misconceptions for an area of knowledge can influence their learning. **

This lesson gives students the opportunity to discover information about an important time in our country’s history. While students may come into the lesson with certain ideas about what the Civil Rights Movement was, some may have no idea at all what it was. Through exploring online, students can learn about what actually took place.

** 1.S.5 The teacher develops and uses curricula that encourage students to see, question, and interpret ideas from diverse perspectives. **

As they are researching, students will read about, see, and hear perspectives from many different types of people and sourecs about what took place during the Civil Rights Movement. Students have to think about the position of the sources and their perspectives. This time period in history was about diversity and clashing perspectives.

** 1.D.1 The teacher realizes that subject matter knowledge is not a fixed body of facts but is complex and ever evolving. S/he seeks to keep abreast of new ideas and understandings in the field. **

Because they are dividing up topics and researching online, students have access to updated information and ideas about the Civil Rights Movement, as opposed to using textbooks to teach from.

