Portfolio Artifact Cover Sheet Tips

Use the current artifact cover sheet form located under RESOURCES on the NSU COE Portfolio webpage http://academics.nsuok.edu/education/eportfolio.aspx If you need help contact the Portfolio office in Tahlequah, Bagley 201, 918-444-3720, or Broken Arrow ED 242, 918-449-6569.

General guidelines

• The cover sheet is a template, do not remove words or make alterations!

• Use first person (I, my, me, mine, etc) & Use complete sentences

• Single space & do a spell & grammar check (re-read it – don’t only rely on the computer)

• Each competency must have the appropriate artifact cover sheet

• Competencies 1-15 each must be a different artifact. Artifacts can only be used once.

• To pass a competency must have 6 scores of 2’s or 3’s (a single score of 1 means it must be revised and both the artifact cover sheet and competency resubmitted)

The first Artifact Cover Sheet question

Description: “What is your artifact?”

• Briefly describe your assignment/project/document.

• Name the other individual(s) if you created any portion of the artifact in as a group/partner project.

• The artifact should be original work you created. If it was a part of a group/partner project then describe what part of the project was the result of your input.

• Keep the answer brief and to the point (note: this question is not a part of the competency rubric). The answer does not need to discuss elements of the competency.

The second Artifact Cover Sheet question

Analysis: “How does this artifact demonstrate you understand the competency?”

The answer to this question explains how the artifact is a representation that you have accomplished the elements (characteristics) in the competency.

• Address ALL of the elements in the competency

• Often the difference between a score of 1 (unacceptable), and 2 or 3, is whether or not it emphasizes HOW the artifact demonstrates ALL of the elements in the competency.

• “HOW the artifact demonstrates ALL of the elements” = which parts of your artifact represent EACH of the competency elements

The third Artifact Cover Sheet question

Reflection: “How will your understanding of this competency impact your future students’ learning?”

• Since the above answer explained how your artifact demonstrated you accomplished the elements in the competency, the answer to this question will explain how your attainment of those elements will impact the learning of your future students.

• Often the difference between a score of 1 (unacceptable), and 2 or 3, is whether or not the answer explains HOW your understanding of the ALL the elements in the competency will affect your (future) student’s learning. HINT: Make sure you write about the impact upon your students.

EDUC 4032 Pre-Internship II

Portfolio Competency 11 Assignment Instructions

Competency 11

“The teacher shall have an understanding of the importance of assisting students with career awareness and the application of career concepts to the academic curriculum.”

Assignment Instructions: Submit comp. 11, in Chalk and Wire, to Lereen Neugin

Submit to your Chalk and Wire Portfolio an Artifact Cover Sheet for Competency 11 and a lesson plan (see below) which meets all of the following requirements for the competency 11 rubric. For best Artifact Cover sheet results, follow the “Portfolio Artifact Cover Sheet Tips” in the Pre-II Handbook.

Lesson Plan Requirements: Follow the below requirements and then select one lesson plan option (regardless of which option, it must meet the requirements and the competency 11 rubric criteria!)

In your lesson plan include multiple learning opportunities (learning activities) which:

1. Promote career awareness – related to the lesson plan content/topic, and lesson objectives

2. Application of career awareness is related to the lesson plan content/topic and lesson objectives

3. Utilize community resources - people, places information resources

4. Utilize activities to engage students in the learning opportunities (learning activities). For ideas see METHODOLOGY/INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES / ACTIVITIES“ in the Unit & Lesson Plan Guide (see Pre-II Handbook)

TIP for passing with portfolio scores of 2/3’s:

• The lesson plan must be one you created.

• The lesson plan does NOT need to be one you have taught, or plan on teaching.

• It can be a assignment you created for another course (this semester or previous semester).

• It cannot be a lesson plan you have already put in your portfolio, or one you plan to use for another competency.

• It does not need to be approved by your methods instructor, or anyone else.

• It should have the above bold green terms included into your lesson plan (yes – the exact words!).

• Once it is assessed if one of the 6 scores is a 1 (unacceptable) then you didn’t pass and you MUST revise and resubmit the cover sheet and lesson plan before the deadline.

*Lesson Plan Options :Select one lesson plan option

Option 1: Use any lesson plan which you created and add the below information to it so it attempts to answer a hypothetical question posed by a student “In what career or ‘real world way’ will I use this knowledge?” Include all of the following:

1. Add an additional lesson plan objective which indicates the purpose and rationale for the career activities (not necessary to link the objective with PASS). Keep in mind the lesson plan objective and lesson plan activity(s) should be linked.

2. Connect career awareness with the lesson plan objective and the content of the lesson plan by adding a section to your lesson plan which follow the lesson plan requirements (in bold green). The career activity(s) should engage the learner to learn about careers related to the lesson topic. AND

3. Add an informal or formal evaluation which assesses the student’s career awareness related to the lesson objective and career activity(s)

Examples:

• After a lesson plan about Shakespeare’s play Hamlet concludes, include multiple activities which involve the community theater company to introduce careers in stage and theater.

• A lesson plan about mathematical percents could have several activities which teach the students about the types of jobs and careers in which people need to know how to calculate and figure percentages. Some of the resources for the activities could come from local community businesses (sales flyers) and a store manager to talk about how he/she uses math.

Option 2: A lesson plan which is only about career opportunities related to a topic (i.e. biology, language arts, social studies, technology, etc.) utilizing community resources and involving student engagement and includes the above assignment requirements (in bold green)

Examples:

• Have students create a map of their community and discuss various careers within that community and require students to report about the jobs of city officials & public jobs (mayor, councilmen, firemen, policemen, grocers, teachers, etc.). 

• In upper grades students could pick a career that they someday would like to pursue (accountant, teacher, politician, musicians, artisans, professional athletes, etc.) and present a research project, or some other performance activity, which utilizes community resources as the basis of their research information.

• A biology teacher has students research jobs which require a bachelors degree in biology.

OR Other non-lesson plan possible artifact ideas for competency 11

• Special Education majors: A preface/addendum (including all the requirements in bold green)to an IEP special education high school student transition plan

• Class newsletter about a career fair (include all the requirements in bold green)

Artifact Cover Sheet:

• Use the current artifact cover sheet form for competency 11; located under RESOURCES on the COE e-Portfolio webpage.

• Look in the Appendix of the Pre-II Packet for Artifact Cover Sheet tips.