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 * Constructivist Conversations**

 1. __Hoosiers__ INTASC: 9. Reflective Practice: Professional Growth - The teacher is a reflective practitioner who continually evaluates the effects of his or her choices and actions on others (students, parents, and other professionals in the learning community) and who actively seeks out opportunities to grow professionally.

__Likewise, in this film clip from Hoosiers the new basketball coach carefully evaluates how to handle a high-school administration made up of the local town citizens and officials who are some of the parents of his basketball team.__

2. __Goodbye Mr. Chips__ INTASC: 7. Planning - The teacher plans instruction based upon knowledge of subject matter, students, the community, and curriculum goals.

__In this film clip its not until an unprepared teacher of an all boys school looses control of his class-room does he come to realize that his failure was impart based on his knowledge of how the subject matter related to the needs of the student.__

3. __Magic Math__ INTASC: 6. Communication and Technology - The teacher uses knowledge of effective verbal.

__This short clip seems useful in teaching students how sequential numbers in a tic/tac/toe board can teach multiplications of 7's. However, the best way to learn 7's is through memorizations.__

4. __Nature v. Nurture__ INTASC: 2. Student Development - The teacher understands how children learn and develop, and can provide learning opportunities that support a child's intellectual, social, and personal development.

__The issue of whether nature or nurture determines how children learn and develop is an interesting discussion in of its self. Nevertheless, it's beyond the scope of how an educator should understand what learning styles or strategies to use when understanding how children learn and develop cognitively.__

5. __10 Motivational Quotes__

INTASC: 1. Content Pedagogy The teacher understands the central concepts, tools of inquiry, and structures of the discipline he or she teaches and can create learning experiences that make these aspects of subject matter meaningful for students.

__This montage of short quotes could be used to describe to students how to understand different forms of literature in a meaningful way.__