School of Education Portfolio

University of Wisconsin Platteville

Artifact Reflection
Title of Experience/Artifact:

Basketball Unit Plans for 2nd - 3rd and 4th - 5th Grade, Basketball
Lesson Plans 1, 2, 3 and 5 for 2nd - 3rd and 4th - 5th Grade.

Date Experience Completed:

Spring 2015

Describe your educational experience/artifact:

For this standard I chose to pick artifacts that show my understanding in development
of students and how they grow. These unit plans and corresponding lessons were created and
implemented throughout my third quarter teaching experience at Eagle Bluff Elementary
School in Onalaska, WI. The lessons taught throughout this unit plan clearly demonstrates my
ability, as an instructor, to plan activities in a strategic order allowing proper intellectual social
and personal growth. The first three lessons for second, third, fourth and fifth grade show
students basic knowledge of the game of basketball such as dribbling, passing and shooting.
The fifth lesson demonstrates all three lessons to check for understand and growth of the skills
to implement into game like situations.
Wisconsin Teacher Standard Alignment

I believe these artifacts best aligns with Standard Two, Development: The teacher
understands how children with broad ranges of ability learn and provides
instruction that supports their intellectual, social, and personal
development.
These artifacts align with this standard because each lessons shows growing and
developing skills in order to be able to participate into game like situations involving all of
fundamental skills. After the first three lessons I added the fifth lesson because it involves all
of the skills learned within the first three lessons. This will help me check for understanding,
knowing the students can dribble, pass and shoot the basketball. I added both the second and
third grade as well as the fourth and fifth grade lesson plans to show that I am capable of
teaching a variety of different age levels.
UW-Platteville School of Education Knowledge, Skills, Dispositions Alignment

I believe these artifacts best align with KS1.e. DESIGNS COHERENT INSTRUCTION
The candidate, with appropriate student input, has the ability to
develop relevant, goal-directed, engaging, clear,
and varied learning activities that progress coherently
and produce a unified instructional setting that
reflects recent professional
research.
These artifacts best align with this KSD because in each of the lessons the students have
clear instructions
that they need to follow. This is characterized by having the students
start off with basic skills and then slowly
working on more challenging skills until all students are
able to perform the skill to move on to the next. This is
characterized by the students working on basic drills such as
dribbling through cones with both hand working on
the basic dribbling skills that will lead up into some games later on in the unit. It is also shown in the other lesson
examples as well. Such as the second and third graders have dribbling stations in which they use purple cards to
practice different dribbling skills. Later on in the unit the students will use these dribbling skills in a game called
pass and shoot in which they need to use the dribbling skills learned before to be able to know how to dribble in

the activity. This KSD aligned with the standard and the activities is a great example of what the teacher need to
have and that is coherent instructions. It was important for me to have coherent instructions that the students are
able to follow in order for the students to learn the skills in each lesson plan.

Explain what you learned about teaching/learning from this experience:

I learned a lot of great information when teaching the elementary students at Eagle
Bluff. I learned that not all students obtain information at the same rate, some students need
more help and directions that others. Some students pick up on what is being taught more
quickly than others as well. But overall I learned that all of the students are capable of the basic
skills taught and after repetitions of the basic skills students were performing at a greater level
then they started with at the beginning of the unit. I also learned that I am capable of teaching a
variety of different age levels at the same time and that is important in order to be a physical
education teacher.
Explain what you learned about yourself as a prospective educator as a result of this
experience/artifact:

After teaching the students at Eagle Bluff Elementary, I learned that as a prospective
educator I am able to create lesson and unit plans that encourage development and success
from all students. I learned that I am able to teach a wide range of students. Not only was I able
to teach the students in grades four and five, but I also was able to teach grades two and three
as well. I learned that my verbal communication skills are increasing the more I teach. Being
able to give good directions and communicate with students is a very important aspect in
teaching. I feel that the more I teach the more I learn about students and how to deal with
situations. It is a great experience to watch them grow and learn new skills that they can use in
the future.