This sample lesson plan artifact supports the standards 2.2 and 2.3. For this lesson plan, the students are working on two different skills. This allows them to work on each one for about 19 minutes each and allows for 2-3 minutes of transitioning (cleaning up money and getting clocks out). It also allows for a 5-minute brain break before the students go back to class. The pacing of this lesson worked well because the students were able to stay engaged for each 19-minute lesson. For this lesson, the students were able to see and manipulate the money, they were also able to work on their money recognition skills through a game. For the clock part of the lesson, some of the students answered what the time was using the clock on the board, other students preferred to use a clock manipulative to move the hands and count by 5’s.
This lesson plan impacted my professional practice and knowledge by showing me how excited and engaged my students’ were to work on their money skills through a game setting. This showed me that if I am able to make my lessons “fun” the students will enjoy learning and want to continue playing the game even when it is time to stop. The clock part of the lesson taught me that some of my students focus better when they do or do not have a manipulative. One of my students focused and stated the time of the clock
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They had to look the three remaining coins and pull from their memory the name of the missing coin without the visual of it. The clock lesson also pushed my student to remember that each of the hour numbers is 5-minutes. The students had to look at the hour hand and state the hour. They then had to count by 5’s to find the minutes. The manipulative clocks we had previously used had the five minutes printed on them, without the manipulative they had to use their skip courting skills as
The picture I choose for my personal artifact assignment is a picture of my old HALO-3 helmet based of the video game HALO which is a sci-fi & military science fiction first-person shooter video game. The game deals with inter- galactic warfare which also involves fictional characters to travel around in space, explore new discoveries and findings in planets. The reason why I choose this helmet as my artifact is that it relates to our coarse earth and space a lot as it merely almost looks like a future of what could be of a astronauts helmet and through the game and in the course they also show resemblance of how life is in space, different theories and the game also sheds some light on how the future of space travel may be in the years yet
More courses should try to incorporate 5 minutes of the class to get students focused and ready to learn. Sometimes students are too preoccupied with other problems that they do not focus on the present moment; making them less likely to focus on the course.
After reading and easily understanding the tasks given to them, Mason and Jonas began right away. Jonas, my competitive child was racing against the clock, trying to beat the allotted time that I had given them in an attempt to prove me wrong. Mason, my oldest son, was in no hurry to complete the task in the specific amount of time given, simply stating his tasks would be completed and the time didn’t matter since I didn’t specifically state that the time allotment was part of receiving the reward of $5. Upon realizing he was correct, I understood how important every detail must be when conducting a schedule for a business.
The role of reflexivity and objectivity are both important concepts within archaeology. Beginning with reflexivity, according to Johnson, “Reflexivity refers to the back-and-forth, double-edged nature of academic enquiry, in which what we learn about the past is always and immediately bound up with practices in the present,” (Johnson 2011: 141). Archaeologists and other researchers who adapt a reflexive approach to the field, acknowledges personal or professional biases that could potentially cloud the results of the findings. Reflexivity simply allows the researcher to recognize how their own culture or political climate could alter their findings. It not only allows the researcher to better understand their findings, but also helps others
In order to be effective, teachers and parents should first ensure that the child understands the concept of sequenced activities. Visual schedules are often taught through pictures, role play and first-then boards. Most
Good cultural artifact topic because sunglasses are an example of an item from our past that once and still can be used to describe ones gender identity. However, this just doesn’t apply to Ray-Ban. Reflecting on past TV shows and movies such as CHiPs, Magnum P.I., Smokey and the Bandit, and Top Gun in which the male characters exerted a sense of machismo by hiding behind sunglasses. Even dictators like Muammar Gaddafi used sunglasses to build his identity. In both cases we can see how gender rigidity may originate from an item as common as sunglasses. For some males, sunglasses were symbolic; they represented masculinity, power, authority and social status. Kids on the other may use sunglasses to solidify their gender type. Under cognitive
When your go to a museum, you look at all the amazing artifacts and wonder, do the artifacts in the museum really come from my state/country? Do the Artifact belong to my state/country? Cultural artifacts contain a presence of ones culture. The culture is in the artifact in every way and form. People are taking away the cultural side of the artifact by taking away the artifact from the place of origin. Cultural artifacts should be returned to their regions of origin. So the region can look at the artifacts and see themselves in the culture.
Breaking down tasks into smaller, easier steps can be an effective way to teach a classroom of students with a variety of skills and needs. In breaking down the learning process, it allows students to learn at equal pace. This technique can also act as a helpful method for the teacher to analyze and understand the varying needs of the students in the classroom. When teaching or introducing a new math lesson, a teacher might first use the most basic aspects of the lesson to begin the teaching process (i.e. teach stu...
...em to look at several elements that affect their student’s motivation and ask why and how this affects them in the first place. After that, I would tell him to arrange a lesson plan utilizing structural factors such as patterns and sequences, with a view to individual application and the group dynamics of the class. By doing so, the teacher can grow in his students a sense of shared motivation guided by these structural factors, so that each interrelated lesson are remembered. These lesson plans must also consider the effective ways of instilling discipline in the students. The teacher must allow for response from the students so that he may understand the students’ perception of reality, value systems, and will, so that he may understand how to motivate his students more. By understanding the motivations of his students, he can bring about a change in their lives.
First, understanding that children may have a preferred learning style, she incorporates into her lesson plans the strategies which address visual learners, kinesthetic learners, and audio learners. Most children do not have just one learning style, therefore, they benefit through different learning centers. Learning centers include the science center, the math center, the art center, the library, the writing center, and the dramatic play center. Next, she uses teacher centered strategies to lead many of her lesson plans so that she can guide and coach the children through the activities. Since the children are very young, she feels modeling and coaching the children are the most productive techniques. She does try to create lesson plans that vary in complexity and challenge the children based on their own ability
After finishing the teaching part of the lesson, I realized that not everything goes according to plan. For example, in our lesson plan, we had the explain portion detailed and outlined to teach students the technical terms of what they were seeing in the stations and other activities and make it a collaborative effort within groups to work with the vocabulary words. However, the teaching of the plan was not well executed. Also, I learned that teaching a topic does not have to be boring or just full of worksheets. Fun, engaging lab stations and interactive activities can fulfill the standards and requirements just as well, if not better, than basic worksheets and PowerPoint lectures. Lastly, I realized that lesson planning and teaching require a great deal of effort and work, but it is all worth it when a light bulb goes off in a students’ head and they learn something new and are excited to be learning and extend their science
In this essay, I will talk about the components of a lesson plan, the benefits of planning with clear and appropriate goals, selecting age-appropriate goals and objectives that align with state academic content standards, and selecting goals and objectives that are differentiated for varying abilities and learning styles and for multiple intelligences.
The procedures of the lesson were quite clear and logical for the most part, the lesson went mostly according to plan, although some nerves on my part may have caused some minor changes. The children responded positively and enthusiastically to the lesson as well as participated actively during the sorting activity, answering questions throughout the lesson. I think that the activity was age appropriate as it was not too easy neither was it too difficult for the children to complete the tasks. The children seemed to be engaged in the activity and eager to participate, using the colourful handmade materials, as the activity was rather like a fun and interactive game. According to (Guha, 2002), play and language form the basis for learning about math in natural ways, and one great way to integrate math involves hands-on activities and problem-solving situations that pique your children's curiosity. There were also few interruptions throughout the lesson which helped ensure a smooth lesson flow. I also managed to keep the children disciplined and keep their volume down throughout the lesson, since it was conducted at nap time. However, there is definitely some room for improvement. During the storytelling session, some children seemed slightly disengaged, which was probably due to the length of story. I also made a mistake of asking the children a wrong quest...
In the process of completing this coursework, I have realised that every teacher should be all-rounded and equipped with adequate skills of educating others as well as self-learning. As a future educator, we need make sure that our knowledge is always up-to-date and applicable in the process of teaching and learning from time to time. With these skills, we will be able to improvise and improve the lesson and therefore boost the competency of pupils in the process of learning. In the process of planning a lesson, I have changed my perception on lesson planning from the student’s desk to the teacher’s desk. I have taken the responsibility as a teacher to plan a whole 60-minutes lesson with my group members. This coursework has given me an opportunity
In the beginning I was hesitant of having four first graders working together to decide and agree on five items. While walking around and checking in with the groups I realized the students were working together and were talking through the ideas together. I thought this aspect of the lesson was a success because the students are in groups of higher-level students and lower-level students, as I walked around I heard the lower level students explaining their thinking and teaching the higher-level