As an education candidate, I understand the importance of demonstrating knowledge and pedagogy within my teaching. In order to successfully teach your students the different objectives and standards they must learn throughout the year, you must also have a deep understanding of what you are teaching. Through my Praxis Core and Content Scores, I have increased my knowledge to gain familiarity with a wide range of content that will be commonly seen within an elementary setting. Throughout my educational career, I have gained an extensive amount of knowledge of important concepts in the discipline and will continue to do so in order to create the best possible learning environment for my students. Knowledge within the world around us is changing and expanding every day, which is why I find it so important to be open to learning new strategies and cognitive structures to ensure student learning. Within my Poetree lesson provided, I was able to anticipate student misconceptions in order to plan the introduction of my lesson. To be successful in a classroom, you have to base all lessons on prerequisite relationships within the concept you are teaching. Jean Piaget stated in his schema theory that students connect their new found knowledge to an existing Schema. This provides research-based data to support my decisions that Lessons should be based around prior knowledge so that students can build upon their past Schema. To combat this need for prerequisite knowledge, I made a Canva slideshow to review the different vocabulary words they could base their poems on. Instead of just beginning with students writing their own poems, I reviewed the words in which their poems would be based on by creating a follow along fill in the blank notes worksheet to go along with my presentation. For some students it was a review, but others were able to learn new vocabulary which they did not know. Whether or not they had prior knowledge or had just learned it that day, all students were able to apply their knowledge by creating a poem that displayed their chosen vocabulary word. I myself had to have prior knowledge on these vocabulary words in order to teach them to my students, which is why my previous knowledge of content and pedagogy was so important within this lesson. I also made sure to use different pedagogical approaches within this lesson to ensure that all students were able to show their knowledge. For this, I had students choose their own vocabulary word and write a corresponding four line poem using that word as a framework. Students then highlighted or underlined where in the poem you could see the use of their chosen word. They then did a show and tell of their poems to the class if they wanted to and glued them to the matching branches of the tree that were labeled with the vocabulary words. Since this was a class activity and it was student work, I then had them all sign the back of the posterboard so that they could be proud of their class Poetree.