-We believe that the novice teacher should be a reflective practitioner.
"Big Ideas": It is important for every prospective and practicing teach to be reflective of the work and teaching that they do. It is important to analyze how you teach and how the students learn. By being a reflective practitioner, we are able to see what methods work and which ones may not work so well. We need to be sure to always reflect on our practices, so we can instruct in a way that students will best learn.
*Artifact: An artifact that would represent this characteristic could be the entries in a researcher notebook. This shows that you have analyzed your pedalogical skills along with the learning of the students. The researcher notebook can have data related to many things that go on in the classroom. So, it shows that you are considering the environment and activities linked to your classroom and trying to reflect on how things can be improved. By reflecting and analyzing the classroom, it is possible to improve pedalogical skills and help students learn in an environment that is optimistic for successful learning.
-We believe the novice teacher should have an in-depth knowledge of content.
"Big Ideas": The novice teacher should be an expert in their specialization area. It is significant that we have deep understanding and strong conceptual knowledge of the content that we intend to teach. If we lack expertise and understanding of our content, then it will be a struggle to teach and present it to the students. We need to know the "why" behind everything we do, not just the "how." Therefore, we need to know how to work things out along with the reasoning behind it. I feel that this especially important when teaching concepts related to mathematics and science.
*Artifact: An artifact that may represent this characteristic is a content exam that has been created. In addition, we can show the answer key where each step of the problems is broken down. By showing each step to complete a problem, it helps the reader understand your knowledge and understanding of your content. It may show that their is a process for completing the problems on the test. So, it will verify what you are looking for when you are grading these tests. Moreover, this artifact along with an answer key will prove that you have deep conceptual understanding of your specialization content.
You have a good understanding and explanation of these characteristics and of what is expected of you to demonstrate. The researcher notebook is definitely a good artifact to demonstrate that characteristic. You could also include some of the reflection questions from your lesson plans. For the second characteristic you list, a content exam would be a good artifact. You could really include anything you have created within your content including worksheets, activities, lessons, etc. Good job!
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