Lydia Hong

This artifact is an example of a library corner that I have created for the children during the Christmas season. To set up this library corner, I have borrowed the books from the neighborhood National Library in accordance to the theme of "Christmas". I understand that there are different learners in class therefore providing a range of books on the same theme but of different standards. The books are then being classified using color codes that are placed on the spine of the book displaying three different standards, "green" being the easiest, "yellow" being the middle range and "red" for the most difficult books. With this, the children are still free to select any books that they think they are able to read but changing it to a lower standard on their own if they think it is too difficult to engage in independent reading.  I value children for their uniqueness and their individual standard of learning. But on the other hand, it was difficult for me to get some children to only read certain books in the library corner, afraid that it will affect their self esteem. In order to overcome this problem but yet in the same time letting children read books that they are able to manage, I explained very carefully to the children that is perfectly fine to read books that are "green" compared to the books that are in "red". I would also use literacy time in class to read different colored books to demonstrate the importance of all books. I feel that this artifact has displayed my professional qualities of being able to cater to the different learners but yet at the same time protecting the children's ego. I understand that adapting instruction is important, but yet at the same time not neglecting children's pride. I will continue to improve and look for more opportunities where I am able to create individual instruction for children.

This artifact is specially chosen to fit this standard because it displays my ability to set up stimulating and attractive learning corners of different subject areas within the same theme that will able to engage children to participate actively outside formal lesson hours. The learning corners that I have set up have explicit instructions on the learning materials to encourage child-facilitated learning. In addition, the materials that are provided in each activity can be played in more than one way.  The activities in the corners are also created by myself from scratch to cater to the different learning needs of the children that was observed previously.   I believe that additional materials that are provided around the classroom for children to engage themselves in after formal lessons will be able to help them understand the concepts taught. This method will involve the children in a more meaningful experience fashion, where they will discover new knowledge on their own and further develop on what they already knew about that topic on their own. I have put in a lot of effort in designing the activities to ensure that it will help the children, and I believe it also documents my knowledge on that subject matter to be able to plan and come up with such activities. The children have also displayed their interest when they show active involvement when engaging in the learning corner activities. I will continue to provide learning corner materials catered for different subject areas during the period when I am conducting lessons on a particular theme.