Portfolio Exemplar Cover Sheet

Teacher Candidate

Jessica Kim

Cohort #

406

Title of Exemplar Letter Knowledge and Phoneme Awareness Assessment

Portfolio Category
V

XI

II

III

IV

ACEI Standard I. Development, learning, and motivationCandidates know,

understand, and use the major concepts, principles, theories, and research
related to development of children and young adolescents to construct
learning opportunities that support individual students development,
acquisition of knowledge, and motivation.
ACEI Standard Element(s)
Semester
4, 2014
1.

2 (Spring 2014)

Date March

Description of exemplar and how it demonstrates meeting this ACEI

Standard and Element(s).
This exemplar is an assessment practice on letter knowledge and

phoneme awareness. I performed this assessment on a kindergarten student

at Palisades Elementary School. I chose one student who was not from my
field experience classroom and implemented an assessment on a reading
component to analyze his strengths and challenges. For the letter knowledge
portion, the student was instructed to identify the 26 letters of the alphabet
in lowercase and uppercase and then perform the isolated sounds. For the
phoneme awareness portion, the student was assessed on 8 different
components. Some of the components included beginning sounds phoneme
matching and final sounds phoneme matching. This exemplar addresses

ACEI Standard I. Development, learning, and motivation

Candidates know, understand, and use the major concepts,
principles, theories, and research related to development of
children and young adolescents to construct learning opportunities
that support individual students development, acquisition of
knowledge, and motivation. This exemplar represents this standard
because I was able to assess a student on his individual knowledge and
development through this learning experience.
2. Reflection on my professional growth in knowledge, skills, and
dispositions related to this ACEI Standard and Element(s).
My knowledge on development, learning, and motivation has
increased through this teaching experience. I have more knowledge on how
to distribute meaningful assessments to support and motivate individuals
and their development. Through the successes and challenges that the
student had, I learned how to guide and support the student towards his
individual growth. My skills on knowing, understanding, and using major
concepts to support individual students learning has also increased. I was
able to use this assessment and the requirements to analyze my students
step-by-step learning progress. My student showed a great amount of
success and some areas for development. I was able to reflect on insights
and challenges I encountered with the assessment to discover how to further
support learners in the future. My disposition on developing, learning, and
motivating students through learning opportunities has increased. I
understand that different instructional activities enhance student learning n

certain reading components. These assessments help teacher know where

their students are succeeding and struggling to provide more opportunities
to increase their knowledge. These assessments are effective to help
students face their individual challenges and support their individual growth.