Standard # 1 Learner Development:
Artifact: Lesson Plan on Letter Formation
Standard # 1 Learner Development:
The teacher understands how students learn and develop, recognizing that patterns of learning and development vary individually within and across the cognitive, linguistic, social, emotional,
and physical areas, and designs and implements developmentally appropriate and challenging
learning experiences.
Standard In Your Own Words: Educators demonstrate their understanding of individual learning styles, growth, development, progress by creating individualized instruction accounting for differing cognitive abilities, linguistic, social, emotion, physical areas of needs and creating grade appropriate challenging learning activities.
Indicator: 1(b) Creates developmentally appropriate instruction that takes into account individual learners strengths, interests and needs and that enables each learner to advance and accelerate his/her learning.
Description of Artifact: This is a lesson plan I used to meet my students' needs. I was able to create developmentally appropriate instruction considering their individual learning needs and strengths to aid to the growth and understanding of grade appropriate content standards. During this lesson plan, they watched a demonstration, then after I used that demonstration to practice their letter formation as the guided practice. Then after they were able to apply those skills as their independent practice while writing their letters on an activity sheet.
Rationale: This artifact demonstrates my ability to consider diverse learning needs and implement modifications and accommodations for many students within one lesson plan. During my lesson plan, I found a video using Robot Letters that demonstrated the process of letter formation step by step.This artifact met the standard because I was able to account for the needs of the students by pausing the video to show them letter formation step by step, while we used white boards to do each individual line.