Artefacts for student-teachers

 

An artefact Source: UTS Spring 2013. Tutor’s Handouts Week 1 An artefact is a tool that provides a starting point for teachers to critically on teaching practices and policies within a school context. It helps teachers to develop knowledge, competencies, talents and attributes that they believe should be represented in their professional portfolio.  An artefact should be approximately one A-4 page; it may consist of a description of a longer document (or be an extract from the document) that is provided as an appendix. Each artefact should be clearly labelled and distinguished from the commentary that follows it.
Suggested artefacts could include
Documents Lesson plans Student work sample Parent letters Assessment tasks Reports School Policy statement         e.g. welfare, excursions   student teacher reports journal / blog entries	Events Parent-teacher interviews School staff/faculty meetings Teacher-student discussion Critical incidents School assemblies Other activities of school life         e.g. school sport carnival

 

In teaching and learning, artifacts refer to specific assignments in specific courses that are used to demonstrate the student understands an important teaching standard (IOWA State University, 2013). In many cases, for the purpose of assessments, students are required to select artefacts, then to make commentaries on topics chosen.

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