Friday, February 5, 2010
Artifacts and Characteristics of the novice teacher #5
My newest artifact is something that I have recently incorporated in a recent lesson. I have chosen to have my students create a graphic organizer for a certain section in my Geometry class. The lessons that we were going over involved angles of elevation and depression, which primarily consists of word problems. I know from prior knowledge with students and myself that in mathematics nearly everyone hates to do word problems. The graphic organizer I had the students create was used to help them understand the steps to go through while solving a word problem. The organizer was made with one piece of paper that was folded so there would be three rectangles long ways and the students then cut the two end rectangles in half to create four flaps. The first flap was labeled understand. Through conversation with the class we decided what we think should go under this flap. The second flap was labeled plan to see how a student should go about a problem. The third was labeled solve and the final flap was labeled check. For each flap we talked as a class to decide what we should do for each step. This allows for the students to have a guide on how to solve all sorts of word problems. Characteristic #5 states that the novice teacher should have in-depth knowledge of pedagogy and I feel that this artifact connects very well with this characteristic. It really allowed for the students to be creative and be able to understand how others think and approach word problems. Through all the collaboration between my students and I, we developed a great graphic organizer that I believe will help them in my class and others.
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Mikey, this sounds like a wonderful activity. I really enjoy using graphic organizers as well. Most students have not had the proper organizational and study "training" necessary for them to be able to successfully study and complete assignments to the best of their ability. We as teachers, especially at the high school level, expect our students to have these skills by the time the reach us. I am definitely guilty of this. We have to constantly do these activities to engender this organizational ability in our students to help them move on and succeed in other aspects of life. I like your tie to characteristic 5. We must be able to have a very strong knowledge of our content before we introduce these types of activities. Since many students need to have these organizational skills, knowing their importance and many different ways of teaching them, our students will succeed to the best of their ability.
ReplyDeleteI agree that this is a good artifact for Characteristic #5 (you could have gone into a little more detail there). I also believe it could fit well with Characteristic 7. I like the use of graphic organizers. It helps students to focus on each step and stay organized in their thought process. It is also an excellent tool for those students who may struggle more than others.
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