Prereading could be incorporated by promoting reading strategies. I would do this by pulling images from their text and presenting them in a powerpoint. We would talk about the setting, time period, and other notable features. I would use this time to introduce some of the relevant academic language. A reading strategy that I would incorporate is reading aloud by the teacher. Throughout this time, I would pause for questions. I would keep the passages short and also model metacognition. After the lesson, I would incorporate summarizing, discussion, or simulation as my post-reading activity. I can see where some days I would summarize with the students and led the class in a whole group discussion. However, there would be some lessons that I …show more content…
“Christmas Break” showing a subtle bias to students that celebrate the Christmas holiday. This is where it is imperative that a teacher knows her students and their background. By using the phrase “winter break” we are including everyone in the classroom. Topic 25: Explain which one of the following you think would work best with your LSP: Data Retrieval Chart, Parallel Construction Organizer, or Story Analysis Organizer? The Story Analysis Organizer would work best with my LSP. I feel this organizer best develops the students cause and effect and problem/solution comprehension. When discussing the Gold Rush I will highlight immigrants, development of a boomtown, and the economic effects of the Gold Rush. Topic 26: Read “A Focused Children’s Book Lesson”. Explain why you like at least one feature of this and how you could incorporate it into your LSP. One feature I liked from “A Focused Children’s Book Lesson” was the attention getters. Over the course of four days leading up to the assignment, the teacher asked the students questions to pull them into the lesson. The attention getters and “probing” required the students to think more critically about their decisions. These skills would come into use during their biography reports. In the days leading up to my lesson, I would ask the students, how far would you travel for an opportunity to become wealthy? I could also ask, would they be willing to give up everything if they knew there was a possibility that you would never find any gold? I would continue to ask questions related to the
Next, complete the graphic organizer by adding details to each section so that you are planning the details for your Narrative Essay.
I felt the modifications made to the curriculum helped Peter complete his assignments in a way that was beneficial to his learning style. In particular, the modification made to how he completed his journal seemed to encourage to think things through before providing an answer. An additional benefit this particular modification offered was he was allowed to discuss his idea aloud with a partner who would then write down his answers.
...ed to their culture. Then, I’d have the children read the story. After they were done with the story, I’d have the class paint a mural of Esperanza’s neighborhood. Each child would then pick a character, draw a picture of them, and write a short description of the person under the picture. Then, when the mural and character drawings were finished, I would place the pictures of the characters on the mural of Mango Street. I would put each picture near the spot on the mural where the character lived. I think this would be a fun project for the class that will show to me that they know the material in the book.
School is usually a huge part of every child’s daily agenda. Teenagers in high school basically dedicate their entire day to school and homework. Students in grade 8 are similarly going through the same process as high school students. As students work 2 months after the Winter Break, some of them tend to start reducing their quality of work. When we’re tired of doing school work for two straight months, why should we only receive a short March break?
According to “Cognitive Development and Learning in Instructional Contexts,” by James P. Byrnes, in order to best predict a students reading achievement, it is best to see if children are able to repeat stories that were just so recently read to them. This is a better way of assessing the students than any digital span. (Byrnes, 2007, p. 175) With this in mind, I asked questions that provoked a lot of thought and guided the conversations. I also implemented turn to talk into my lesson to hear what the students were saying to their peers about the story as
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Develop a bulleted list of useful ideas in the chapter that relate to your instructional context, including how the ideas are useful to
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One thing that I was anxious to read about was incorporating hands on material for students. Students need to be given many chances to practice what they have learned. Being able to practice is just one aspect of mastering any new skill or concept. There are many important details that should be noted when an educator is choosing hands on materials. I have designed lesson plans
This artifact is a classroom management plan that I completed in one of my special education courses with one of my peers. This classroom management plan represents how I plan on setting up my future classroom, the expectation I will have in my classroom and how I will deal with behaviors when they do occur. Within this plan I have a behavior contract a way for me as a teacher to monitor how many times I have to redirect a student. This artifact would fit in standard #3: learning environments since it demonstrates how I plan on managing my classroom in the future. By having a plan, it will allow me to have something to refer to and be able to gain control in my classroom very early on in the school year. This is an example of my best work since
List any special features of your school or classroom setting (e.g., charter, co-teaching, themed magnet, remedial course, honors course) that will affect your teaching in this learning segment.
Presentations were another key component to this class. We were asked to sign up and present problems that we had solved successfully and could share with the class. I liked how this was set up. It gave students an opportunity to share what they had discovered, which could be a different way than you had done the problem. By letting ...
The one topic that was most relevant was behavioral issues, because most of the students in this classroom had behavioral problems and it affect the way they learn. It was great to see the teacher be patience, and it was very insightful to watch how she handle each behavioral problem that arose in the classroom. Another topic that arose was the different types of instruction, but as discussed early in the paper the classroom that I observed was a direct instruction. During the time spent in the school I gained insight on how to have good classroom management, what method on teaching worked the best, how to teach children with needs, and how to better motivate the children to
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.