D. PERFORMANCES - PARAGRAPH #4

Within your fourth paragraph you need to communicate a mastery of the below indicators:

1. The teachers models effective communication strategies in conveying ideas and information and in asking questions (e.g. monitoring the effects of messages, restating ideas and drawing connections, using visual, aural, and kinesthetic cues, being sensitive to nonverbal cues given and received).
2. The teacher supports and expands learner expression in speaking, writing, and other media.
3. The teacher knows how to ask questions and stimulate discussion in different ways for particular purposes, for example, probing for learner understanding, helping students articulate their ideas and thinking processes, promoting risk-taking and problem-solving, facilitating factual recall, encouraging convergent and divergent thinking, stimulating curiosity, helping students to question.
4. The teacher communicates in ways that demonstrate a sensitivity to cultural and gender differences (e.g. appropriate use of eye contact, interpretation of body language and verbal statements, acknowledgement of and responsiveness to different modes of communication and participation).
5. The teacher knows how to use a variety of media communication tools, including audio-visual aids and computers, to enrich learning opportunities. 

Below you will find a short six minute video of Ms. Noonan's teaching.  I chose this video because within this short video I believe you can find evidence of nearly all the components above.  My hope is that after watching this video it will spark a memory of a class experience in which you engaged in similar activities and give you that "seed" of what you could take up in this paragraph in relation to the artifact that you have chosen.