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Lauren Ellis

CI 432

Reflective Statement on Standard 3 – Language Arts

Artifact: A lesson plan on main-idea sentences

STATE GOAL 3: Write to communicate for a variety of purposes.Standard 3: All teachers should give constructive instruction andfeedback to students in both written and oral contexts while beingaware of diverse learners’ needs. Teachers should effectively provide avariety of instructional strategies, constructive feedback, criticism, andimprovement strategies.

1. To me this standard deals with teachers giving students a variety of instruction

and feedback on a daily basis. It means while teaching, give students a different

way to approach a lesson and a way for you as the teacher to get feedback from

the students, both orally and through their work. This standard also deals with

writing for a variety of purposes, which I believe means writing narratives,

expository, and letters. Teachers should provide the students a variety of writing

styles so that they can develop and master each one. Also with the help of the

teacher and the teacher’s feedback, the students writing can grow. With feedback

also comes criticism and praise. I feel the younger the students, a teacher should

keep a balance of criticism and praise and as the students get older, the feedback

may not have to be as sugarcoated. I believe though that with varied instruction

and constant feedback, students will be able to learn writing with a variety of

purposes.

2. Explain how the artifact you chose demonstrates your understanding and

application of the standard.

The artifact that I chose to help demonstrate this standard is a lesson plan that I taught to

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my current fifth grade class. I believe that this lesson plan in particular demonstrates this

standard first by the purpose of the lesson, which is writing main-idea sentences. Main-

idea sentences can be used in a variety of writing purposes; therefore the students can

carry this information with them to other forms of writing. I feel that this lesson also

demonstrates my understanding of the standard because within the lesson I use a variety

of feedback to the students, such as verbal and on paper. I also equip them with variety in

my teaching. Parts of the lesson are verbal, some on the white board and some on their

worksheets, both in a group and independently. I also believe that this artifact meets this

standard because the idea of the standard is to help students with a variety of writing

purposes. This lesson is focused around main-idea sentences, which can be used in all

writing. Therefore I am providing them with tools they will need down the road with any

type of writing.

2 A. If the artifact has been used in your practice, reflect upon how your teaching will

change in the future to further meet the standard.

I was able to put my artifact into practice, which was a lesson I have already taught. I

believe that my teaching will change in the future to further meet this standard by stating

that the main-idea sentences aren’t just for narratives, they can be used in all forms of

writing. I believe that this will help to better incorporate the idea that this standard is

aimed toward a variety of forms of writing by planting the idea that main-idea sentences

are used in multiple places of writing. My teaching will also change in the future to meet

this standard when there are new teaching style ways to further reach every student.

There is constant information coming out on how to better reach every student’s

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academically and I will continue to change my ways of teaching to achieve this.

3. Conclude with a paragraph discussing how you are more prepared to Teach and

Learn in a Diverse Society as a result of satisfactorily meeting the standard.

This artifact has taught me that in a diverse society, a teacher needs to be able to provide

students with a variety of teaching styles to reach everyone. In my lesson I tried to use

group and independent work, along with using a white board and worksheets. I felt that

this standard has taught me to teach in a diverse society I need to be creative. When

technology isn’t available I need to create more stimulating and interesting ideas to teach

to students. I believe that this standard has also helped me to teach in a diverse society by

providing students with multiple types of feedback. Every student receives feedback

differently and I need to be aware of this.

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