This document summarizes artifacts that demonstrate the author's communication skills, including a PowerPoint presentation for an AP World History class, progress reports for students, and emails exchanged with parents and colleagues. The artifacts align with teaching standards around communicating well with various stakeholders. Reflections note the importance of being concise, organized, and accessible in communications, as well as creating regular contact with parents to build understanding and avoid misunderstandings. Lessons learned include slowing down presentations to ensure understanding and appreciating the value of accessibility for families.
This document summarizes artifacts that demonstrate the author's communication skills, including a PowerPoint presentation for an AP World History class, progress reports for students, and emails exchanged with parents and colleagues. The artifacts align with teaching standards around communicating well with various stakeholders. Reflections note the importance of being concise, organized, and accessible in communications, as well as creating regular contact with parents to build understanding and avoid misunderstandings. Lessons learned include slowing down presentations to ensure understanding and appreciating the value of accessibility for families.
This document summarizes artifacts that demonstrate the author's communication skills, including a PowerPoint presentation for an AP World History class, progress reports for students, and emails exchanged with parents and colleagues. The artifacts align with teaching standards around communicating well with various stakeholders. Reflections note the importance of being concise, organized, and accessible in communications, as well as creating regular contact with parents to build understanding and avoid misunderstandings. Lessons learned include slowing down presentations to ensure understanding and appreciating the value of accessibility for families.
This document summarizes artifacts that demonstrate the author's communication skills, including a PowerPoint presentation for an AP World History class, progress reports for students, and emails exchanged with parents and colleagues. The artifacts align with teaching standards around communicating well with various stakeholders. Reflections note the importance of being concise, organized, and accessible in communications, as well as creating regular contact with parents to build understanding and avoid misunderstandings. Lessons learned include slowing down presentations to ensure understanding and appreciating the value of accessibility for families.
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ARTIFACT EVIDENCE AND REFLECTION
WTS #6 ARTIFACT DESCRIPTION: APWH Review PPT; Email Excerpts/Examples; Progress Notes The artifacts presented here include a PowerPoint Presentation that I created and delivered to my Advanced Placement World History class several years ago, a Progress Report delivered to a student and parents regarding IEP goal and a couple email excerpts that demonstrate my ability to communicate effectively with parents and colleagues in my capacity as a teacher. The PowerPoint was a presentation that included a semester review in preparation for finals week. It was a fairly inclusive and in depth review of a significant amount of content. The Progress Report is indicative of quarterly progress reports created and delivered to parents as part of the IEP process and updates made on goal and objectives progress made over the IEP year. The email examples illustrate my ability to effectively communicate with parents through electronic media regarding school announcements and other regularly communication. I have also included an email between myself and a colleague that shows collaboration on creating, modifying and finalizing progress notes for a student on my caseload that received speech and language services during the school year. ALIGNMENTS: WI DPI Teacher Standards Standard Six Communication Teachers communicate well. The teacher uses effective verbal and nonverbal communication techniques as well as instructional media and technology to foster active inquiry, collaboration, and supportive interaction in the classroom. These artifacts align with Standard Six insofar as they show that I can share information and communicate effectively via electronic media and through email and shared documents. Media presentations are absolutely imperative to delivering clear and concise information to students in the classroom. Communicating with parents and colleagues is made easier through the efficient use of electronic mail and documents. More and more the use of shared electronic documents by teachers, students and parents has become the norm in education. Making effective use of these resources is fundamental to being successful in communicating as an educator. UWP School of Education Knowledge, Skill and Disposition Statement
ARTIFACT EVIDENCE AND REFLECTION
WTS #6 KSD 3.a. COMMUNICATES CLEARLY AND ACCURATELY The candidates spoken and written language are correct, expressive and clear, with well-chosen vocabulary that enriches teaching and communicates thoughtfully, responsively, and effectively for a wide range of student understanding and encourages appropriate student language development.
KSD 4.c. COMMUNICATES WITH FAMILIES
The candidate is able to provide frequent, sensitive and appropriate information to parents and students about students positive and negative progress within the instructional program and successfully engages families in the educational process when appropriate. My artifacts illustrate that I possess good communication skills. I have included an exemplary PowerPoint presentation that is full of essential information that was delivered to my APWH students. I have also included examples of my communications with parents and colleagues that demonstrate that I have the ability to communicate clearly and effectively. Clear and concise information is necessary and important as a foundation of a solid relationship between teachers and parents. Furthermore, the Progress Notes example that I have included is very important in the overall process of showing growth and areas of need insofar as the implementation of a students IEP is concerned. These communications need to be concise, yet accessible to all parents so that a clear understanding of progress and continued efforts to meet goals are communicated effectively. REFLECTIONS AND IMPACT ON PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: What I learned about teaching I have learned that the most important thing to consider when communicating as a teacher is to be concise and organized. Personally, I tend to ramble when I speak and write. This can present issues when your desire is to absolutely clear or working with students to be sure that they are getting the crux of matters or topics. As I have worked on media presentations more recently, I have focused on bulleted thoughts and am sure to take time to explain and answer questions as I present to be sure that all are with me. Simply throwing text on the screen doesnt do the trick. In teaching, it is fundamentally important to make contact regularly with families. What I learned about myself as an educator As I alluded to above, it became clear to me years ago that I can ramble and often can speak way to
ARTIFACT EVIDENCE AND REFLECTION
WTS #6 fast leaving students in the dust. A good friend pointed out my tempo in speaking to me as problematic. She was a sign language interpreter and struggled to simply stay up with my pace. I have learned to slow down and check for understanding regularly. Being a clanging gong that goes on and never takes a break is ineffective as a teaching style or plan. I have also come to appreciate the value in making regular contact with parents early on. Creating this expectation and habit with parents goes a long way to avoiding misunderstanding and feelings of inaccessibility. The one thing I have come to appreciate as well is the effect of being accessible to the families of my students.
