Characteristic 6: We believe that the novice teacher should have in-depth knowledge of content.
An artifact I can represent Characteristic 6 of the Novice Teacher with would be my Education 461 Literacy Workstations. I am specializing in English, so I believe my workstations show what I have learned from not only my literacy classes, but also the many English classes I have taken the past 4 years. My Literacy Workstations include many activities for the students to do that revolve around West Virginia Social Studies. Other subjects like math, science, and vocabulary are also integrated into the workstations. I believe this shows that I can take my content specialization area and connect it to many different subjects.
Characteristic 7: We believe that the novice teacher should effectively integrate content and pedagogy.
An artifact I can use to represent Characteristic 7 of the Novice Teacher would be my Education 440 (Science Methods) learning cycle on rocks and minerals. I believe this artifact represents characteristic 7 because my learning cycle uses the 5-E Teaching Model of engagement, exploration, explanation, elaboration, and evaluation to teach the students about rocks and minerals. During my learning cycle, the students work in groups while in stations. I also utilized a lot of visual arts in order for students to express themselves and be creative. Since this is a science learning cycle, I believed the best way for students to learn the content was to have them be hands on and discover information for themselves rather than me telling them the information. I think science is a very hands on discovery subject and during my learning cycle the students get to experience that.
