RUNNING HEAD: Artifact Justification

Loredana Sanchez
Domain D Artifact Justification
TED 690: Capstone
Professor Clifton Johnson
National University
June 19, 2016

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Abstract

This paper will present justifications for all three artifacts used for Domain D in my PDQP.

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Artifact 1

My first artifact is the pacing guide I received for my first year Spanish students. I
decided to include this as an artifact to demonstrate the course of planning instruction. Although
the pacing guide was constructed by the Foreign Language Department at the school I
completed my student teaching, I had to create ways to interconnect the previous grammar
topics with the one the students were currently learning about. I was also able to use my
knowledge of what was to come in other units to foreshadow to my students what they would be
learning about in the future and give them a heads up. There are notes all over the pacing guide
showing my plans and ways to demonstrate to my students the grammar topics.
Artifact 2
The second artifact is a lesson plan outline that I did for my second to last observation
performed by my National University Site Provider. In this lesson my students had to compare
two types of past tenses that we had previously talked about. I had to plan this unit while
planning lessons for the two tenses individually. I was able to use items, sentences, and audio
that they had been exposed to before, within the two tenses and previous lessons, to tap into
their previous knowledge, in order to present this very hard unit. I had to prepare the notecards
ahead of time, and how I wanted the activity to go.
Artifact 3
The last artifact for Domain D is a paper based on the book Best Practices Differentiated
Instruction by Dr. Ventriglia. I decided to include this paper because it focuses on differentiation,
which is something that must be done ahead of time. Of course in order to differentiate in a

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successful manner, one must know their students. Differentiation must be included in all lesson
plans and takes time to plan, whether it be for a lesson, an activity, a quiz, an exam, and so on. I
was able to use what this book talked about in order to differentiate successfully in both of my
student teaching classes.