Tell us the level of students with whom you plan on teaching as well as your content area or the content area you have chosen for the newsletter. Tell us the standard you are working with. Then, describe the benchmark and/or grade level indicators you were working with on the Newsletter assignment.
Most importantly, reflect on how your newsletter activity represents a learner-centered activity where your future students (on their own or with younger children, working with the teacher) would be able to construct meaning regarding the benchmark or grade level indicators by using the technology of word processing.
I am going to become a special education teacher, so in regards towards the newsletter I had created I was gearing towards the younger students. I had chosen fourth grade level students. In the newsletter, my standard that I was working with was the students had to research three different holidays other than their own. I would have put them in groups of three or four and they would all work together to research a holiday that was unfamiliar to all them. They couldnt research the holidays like Christmas, Easter, Halloween, Thanksgiving, St. Pattys Day, Labor Day, 4th of July, Memorial Day etc. The grade level indactor or benchmarch that I was striving for with the students was in groups of three or four, students will research three different holidays and present them in a newsletter to the class. I had recently describe this above.
I feel that this newsletter will broaden the students understanding for new culture other than their own. It will make them look outside of the box when it comes to somthing that is unfamilar to them. I know that they are only in fourth grade but it will also help to work together in a group and have everyone put in their own effort towards creating this newsletter. Also working with Microsoft Processing,it will help the students explore the different tools used in creating their newsletter. They can all put in their own creativity and would be proud of the work that they all put in towards making their own newsletter for the class.
