Course Activity: Brief description and artifacts for Powtoon Portfolio

Standard 1: Foundational Knowledge

• Analyze classroom environment quality for fostering individual motivation to read and write (e.g., access to print, choice, challenge, and interests).
• I will reflect on our brain breaks where students are able to choose a book to "read" with their peers or by themselves, our reader's choice days where I allow the students to choose what book we read that day, and our journals (which will be my artifact) where some days students are given a prompt and other days they are given just a topic to write about.

Standard 2 Curriculum and Instruction

• Provide appropriate in-depth instruction for all readers and writers, especially those who struggle with reading and writing.
• I will reflect on our station portion of the day where they are broken in to three groups and one station changes throughout the week to fit the needs of the students. My artifact will be a variety of work that shows how I change the station to fit the needs of the students within the group I am working with.

Standard 3 Assessment and Evaluation

• Administer and interpret appropriate assessments for students, especially those who struggle with reading and writing.
• Analyze and use assessment data to examine the effectiveness of specific intervention practices and students responses to instruction.
• I will reflect on some of my struggling readers fluency assessments and how I have focused my station time to working with on flash cards, great leaps, or sight word study (which will be my artifacts).

Standard 4 Diversity

• Provide differentiated instruction and instructional materials, including traditional print, digital, and online resources, that capitalize on diversity.
• I will reflect on working with our tech steps, spellingcity website, and traditional worksheets on a variety of different instruction. I will provide pictures and student work as my artifacts.

Standard 5 Literate Environment 

• Understand the role of routines in creating and maintaining positive learning environments for reading and writing instruction using traditional print, digital, and online resources.
• Again, I will focus on our daily routine of morning meeting, station time, and journal time to focus on a positive reading and writing environment. I will provide pictures of our stations and student work as artifacts.

I will be using PowToon for my portfolio.