Characteristics of the Novice Teacher #2

For my first artifact, I chose characteristic #3: We believe that the novice teacher should recognize that teaching is a professional, moral, and ethical enterprise, should understand moral issues and ethical practices in educational environments, and should have developed ethical frameworks which facilitate effective teaching. I think that my literacy workstation project from EDUC 461 is a good example of this. I say this because throughout the project there are many modifications for students with different cultural beliefs as well as a number of resources used to teach students about different moral and ethics. Even though this project was done in a group setting, the other members and myself made sure that we incorporated a number of different ideas and activities to make sure that students were not just leaning school material, but life lessons as well.

My second artifact relates to characteristic #4: We believe the novice teacher should be a facilitator of learning for all students. My technology toolkit from SPED 360 is a good reflection of this. While doing this project, I made sure I picked activities that would give all students a chance to learn. they were all technology activities that could be modified in any way for any student with a disability. I tried to think of the project as being something that a student could do mostly on themselves with very little assistance. That way they were getting learning skills as well as acquiring technology skills. The skills that I picked would be easy for a teacher to take a group of students to a lab and be able to circulate throughout the computer lab as the students worked their way through their assignments.