Demonstrating a Professional Body of Knowledge
Through my planning in practicum, I always want to include as many areas for collaboration as possible, especially in a Kindergarten setting where social interaction and play is so crucial for learning to take place. The artifact on the right depicts and image of students playing in numeracy centres, which was a very engaging and cooperative experience for the students. In Demonstrating a Professional Body of Knowledge, this artifact depicts "planning and designing learning activities that: build student capacity for collaboration," because this activity was scaffolded and structured so that students learned how to engage in each lesson and activity together.
Working in a Kindergarten classroom has provided me with a challenge in assessment and understanding the best way to assess student learning without using too many exit slips and journal entries. I found that "applying student assessment and evaluation practices that ​generate evidence of student learning to inform teaching practice through a balance of formative and summative assessment experiences" gave me experience in anecdotal notes daily. I used envelope label stickers each day to write notes for each student, and then put the stickers on a page for each student so that I could track behaviours, concepts, and social interactions over time.