Educators demonstrate a broad knowledge base and an understanding of areas they teach.
In order to teach students, teachers need to have knowledge of many different things. Between the nine different curriculum subjects, there is already a lot of knowledge required to cover everything as a classroom teacher. As you dive deeper into each of those subjects, the variety of knowledge needed increases.
This broad knowledge base can be required within a single unit, such as in this integrated unit plan created by Katey, Jessica, and me. We created this unit based on a grade 2 class. Within the six lessons, knowledge of literacy, math, science, ADST, art education, and health eduction are all required.
Requiring a broad knowledge base is also evident when I look back on what I have taught in grade 6 over the course of my 491 Summative Practicum. Between math, language arts, science, socials, careers, art, PE, ADST, and French, I have had to do a lot of review prior to teaching lessons to ensure I have a strong knowledge base of what I am teaching the students. If I didn’t have an strong understanding of what I was teaching, it would make it difficult to answer students’ quesitons and there would be a possibility of incorrectly teaching content.
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