Commitment to Content Knowledge and Scholarship
When you graduate from a teacher education program, you are not finished learning. Teachers become life-long learners. It is important for all teachers to stay up to date on the newest standards, teacher styles, and technology. As a teacher, I am committed to teaching students using the national and state standards that align with each grade level. West Virginia State University has helped to provide me with the knowledge to teach in each content area as well as integrate technology, music, art, health, and physical education.
I have included artifacts from my Teaching Science course at WVSU. I spent this summer working with students at the Bob Burdette Center in an summer program. I taught 3rd-5th graders science for four weeks. The students that attended the program brought diversity into my classroom.
The first artifact is a lesson plan about the states of matter. We used centers to teach the lesson because the group of students in the class had several different behaviors. I grouped the students into centers based on a way that would reduce behaviors throughout the day. During one experiment, we found that it wasn't working correctly. The students were able to figure the issue and help the teachers in the classroom fix the problem.
The second artifact I included is a lesson plan I taught about using magnets as a compass. The students in the class got off task easily so I decided to have them make the magnets themselves. This kept their hands busy. The students were also able to double check their compass by using the teachers iPhones equipped with a compass application.
The third and fourth artifacts are my journals from my Teaching Science class. I enjoyed spending this time with the students. Even though we were out of the school environment, I made sure that the students knew they were there to learn. This experience also helped me with trying out different types of classroom management techniques.
The next artifact is an assignment from my 426 class. It shows that I can use blooms taxonomy to create lessons that rise to higher level thinking skills. The last artifact is a parent communication assignment I had completed in education 426. I planned a field trip for my "classroom". This involved communicating with co-teachers, parents, principal, cafeteria management, central office personal, and the business that we would be attended.
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