Artifact on Characteristic # 2

A lesson that I taught this week and designed was for students to practice writing sentences and improve their punctuation, grammar, and sentence structures through the objective of using grammar in written compositions in respect to using correct subject/verb agreement, simple adjectives, adverbs, etc. Each student is required to correct the sentences first within their own workbooks, and then participate in a whole group lesson correcting the sentences on the board with the teacher, and copying down the proper corrections within their workbooks.

I feel that my particular lesson meets Characteristic #2, which is that the novice teacher should be an effective communicator. An effective communicator is one who expresses and receives ideas, messages, or information through appropriate spoken, written, and non-verbal forms. This is where communication is fundamental to the teacher’s work with students, colleagues, parents, and the community. This particular lesson could have fit in several other Characteristics for the Novice Teacher; however, Characteristic #2 was the best match. This particular lesson covered the use of grammar in written compositions such as using correct subject/verb agreement, simple adjectives, adverbs, etc, as well as allowed students to verbally participate and apply what was learned throughout the lesson in their everyday communicative lives which promotes the Reading and Language Arts. Also, if another characteristic had to be chosen, this lesson could be classified as meeting Characteristic #4 for the novice teacher follows the guidelines such as the novice teacher should be a facilitator of learning for all students. This is where the facilitator is able to provide appropriate learning experiences and resources or find someone else to provide them. Learning is the student’s active process of building meaning and knowledge. This particular lesson could have fit in several other Characteristics for the Novice Teacher; however, Characteristic #4 as well as Characteristic #2 fit the best due to the fact that this lesson was able to meet all students’ levels of learning and meet each and every individual’s diverse needs, while supporting how to be effective communicators while sharing their responses.

I feel that on a whole, this lesson was a great success. It really allowed all students to remain engaged, participate in a whole group discussion, and express their feelings and thoughts on grammer corrections that they believed in throughout the Daily Langauge lesson.