Domain I: Designing Instruction and Assessment to Promote Student Learning
Artifact 1:
While student teaching in fourth grade, I have been able to facilitate multiple science investigations in the classroom. This is a handout I created to help guide students through an investigation testing the variable of friction. When finished, students glued their finished investigation into their science journals and wrote a conclusion on the next page.
Friction Investigation
Artifact 2:
During student teaching in fourth grade, I have also had the opportunity to create a couple of rubrics in order to not only assess students, but to guide their work. I believe that providing a rubric gives the student every possible chance to make the grade they want.
This is a rubric I created for a “Said is Dead” writing lesson where students were assigned a word to find good synonyms for. I modeled using the word “said” and then students created their own tombstone using the rubric and the teacher example to guide them.
Said is Dead Rubric
safnjf- I created this rubric to guide students in writing a rough draft and final copy of a biography. After studying biographies as a genre, students were given the task to interview someone at home and write a biography about them.
Writing a Biography Rubric
Artifact 3:
In my education courses at St. Edward’s, I have learned how to write a multitude of lesson plans. The following are a couple of examples of lessons I have created.
- This is a plan that I wrote for a small group I taught in a fifth grade classroom. It includes cooperative learning, differentiated instruction, and technology. It also provides possible adaptions to the plan for students with ADD/ADHD, dyslexia, and dysgraphia. And finally, there are suggestions for English language learning and gifted and talented students.
5th Grade Poetry Lesson
KDSNALKGF - This is a plan that I wrote for a fifth grade class in my Teaching Science in Elementary School course. We were required to use the 5 E Model (Engage, Explore, Explain, Extend, and Evaluate). This is a model I plan to use in my own classroom.
5th Grade Light Energy Lesson