This is an artifact that was created during my student teaching experience. This artifact is a lesson plan for a math lesson using a game. This is the first formal lesson plan that I developed during student teaching that focused on rounding. This lesson plan focused primarily on making sure that the standards made sense for the level of students I was teaching. In special education, you will work with students whose academic abilities are different than students of the same grade level. It was my job for this lesson plan to find goals that challenged students enough and promoted growth.

1A) understands the spectrum of student diversity (e.g., race and ethnicity, socioeconomic status, special education, gifted, English language learners (ELL), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity) and the assets that each student brings to learning across the curriculum

This artifact is a good demonstration of Teaching Standard 1 because of the level of differentiation required. In special education, self-contained settings require the identification of student levels and needs via their IEP. The Jeopardy Rounding lesson demonstrates this understanding because of the added support that is included. The questions that are included in the game are at different difficulty levels as well as a worksheet that supports students that need the reminder of place values. The most beneficial part of the lesson is breaking up the class into groups of students with a mixture of high-level learners with the students that need added support. This will create the potential for cross-collaboration between these groups of students.

What I learned from this experience is that lesson planning takes time. While each school may take lesson planning in a different direction it's important to know at all parts of a formal lesson plan should be considered when developing the most successful plan. If you don't put time and consideration into all parts of the lesson plan a potential group of students will be left unconsidered. Realizing that having a good lesson plan increases the success of students is all the motivation you need to put in the extra effort to perfect your lessons.

This artifact is a video of my student teaching experience. This video was taken 5 weeks into my student-teaching experience in which I demo a Bell Ringer in my math class known as "Padilla's Puzzles". This artifact was primarily used for the purposes of self-reflection. In this clip, I record how I taught the bell ringer and decide what I can do to benefit future lessons. At this point in student teaching, I realized that the students in my class were struggling with borrowing in subtraction. In this video, you can see me demonstrate the steps in subtraction.

1I) stimulates prior knowledge and links new ideas to already familiar ideas and experiences

Bell ringers are a great way to start a class for multiple reasons but the most important one is review. Students get taught a lesson in classes and move on to the next topic in the following class. It's important to use bell ringers to keep their working memory fresh, especially in math. The use of bell ringers demonstrates Teaching Standard 1 in its ability to help students recall their prior knowledge. Students will start the class with a reminder of the lesson from the day before and it also opens the class for an opportunity to practice the skill with the teacher if the support is still needed.

This bell ringer video was fundmental in self-reflection and serving as a reminder. In self-reflection, I started to notice any inconsistencies that are present when Im teaching. I can see myself moving and focusing on things that are unnecessary, and that takes away from what I'm trying to teach. Being able to look back and analyze my own skills will help me develop a better foundation for teaching. This also serves as a reminder to keep using bell ringers or a method that can stimulate students need to recall information. Practice and recollection while help bridge new ideas to those of previous lessons.