Teaching Artifacts
Artifact/Appendix H for Lesson Plan on Contemporary Application
The artifact below is a part of my lesson plan on contemporary application. Students watch two different news reports on the activist group, Anonymous, and while students watch these video clips, they will arrange their thoughts through this graphic organizer. Once students fill out the graphic organizer, they will have created a reference sheet that they can look at while developing their propaganda poster. I designed the graphic organizer in a way that has students form their thoughts and ideas around the unit concepts when viewing the video clips. I see this graphic organizer as a building block to reaching a larger understanding the material at hand. I believe pre-writing is of the most important components in the writing process. This graphic organizer exemplifies to students a creative method of generating pre-writing and thought/idea formation. My goal as a teacher is to generate effective writers. Methods of pre-writing, such as this, are apart of the means of achieving my goal.
Artifact/Appendix I for Lesson Plan on Contemporary Application
The artifact below is an assignment that assesses the students' understanding over the lesson plan that applies the unit concepts of loyalty and the ethics of blame on the activist group, Anonymous. Since the unit assessment is the next step in the unit, this assignment helps the students to refresh their knowledge of the unit concepts, while also having students construct a piece of work that forms around these unit concepts. I did not want to create a task that was too intimidating for students to complete. I built this assignment so that students could have fun and be creative when building a piece of work, which applied to the unit concepts. The final unit assessment is such a large part of the students' grade, which elicits stress on the students. Even if students have developed a certain level of mastery over the unit concepts, stress can negatively impact the students' performance. Thus, this assignment strives to make students feel more prepared and comfortable with the material. Furthermore, the propaganda poster shows students other modes of writing. I want to teach students how to write effective papers, but I also want to show my students various forms of writing. I don't want to limit my students' understanding of writing to just essays. This task demonstrates how students can create a different mode of writing and the purpose of this different mode of writing.
Teaching Students Compound Sentences
When I am teaching a unit on writing, I plan on giving mini-lessons based around proper grammar and punctuation rules before each of my classes. Therefore, the teaching artifact below is a brief but still effective assignment that would be given and completed during the beginning of class. The purpose of the assignment is to teach students proper comma placement in compound sentences that use conjunctions. I always design my lessons so that students are learning more than just the obvious objective. Thus, the assignment is designed to teach students when to use proper comma placement, while learning teamwork skills, story development skills, and how the various conjunctions serve for different purposes in writing. My belief is that grammar and punctuation are not just rules in writing; they are a ways to include voice in writing. For students to become effective writers, they need to understand how to communicate themselves through writing in their own unique voice. By understanding grammar and punctuation rules, students will possess an expansive knowledge in how to communicate their thoughts and ideas in various ways.
Other Pieces of Work
The button below leads to another website that I have developed with a colleague of mine who was in my teaching program.