Artifacts and Characterisrtics of the Novice Teacher # 4

Characteristic number 4 states that the novice teacher should be a facilitator of learning for all students. This means that the teacher can provide resources to help students better understand concepts. Students all have a variety of learning styles so it is important for teachers to have different ways of presenting and assessing information. I recently taught a lesson on weather and how it affects what you wear. We had a discussion about what they wore that day and why. I then pulled up a weather temperature map of the United states to provide a visual for the students. We then talked about how the weather is in different places like Hawaii, Florida, Alaska, ect. We talked about what they may be wearing there and what kinds of activities they would be doing there. After we finished out discussion, the students went back to their seats and drew pictures of the weather in Morgantown of what they were wearing and what activities they could be doing. They also drew a picture of another place that had different weather and what they would be wearing and an activity they would be doing. Several of the student have special needs so for them during station time they were able to get on the computer and play a dress the bear game. They would look out the window in the computer and see what they weather was. They would then decide what the bear should wear. This gave them a more visual way of seeing how the weather affects what you wear and what you do. It was also better for me to see that they understood because their drawing skills are not on level so this allows the teacher to see what the bear was wearing.