It's hard to believe that this is our last blog post, and we are approaching week 8 of this class. This session has been very beneficial for me personally because we practiced writing lesson plans with new strategies and D.O.K. questions. I am so thankful that Mrs. Wright introduced us to these D.O.K's and made us practice using these in our lesson plans. They are a large part of what we will be observed on during student teaching, so I am thankful for the extra practice.
As I walk away from this class, I can say that I feel more confident in using the D.O.K's in my lesson plans, and that I am no longer intimidated by using a strategy successfully in a lesson plan. I have enjoyed working alongside each and every one of you these last eight weeks, and I wish you all the best of luck in your future endeavors. :)
Friday, April 14, 2017
Sunday, April 9, 2017
April 3, 2017: Lesson Plans 8,9, & 10.
It's hard to believe that we are already in week six. This class has taught me so much in the last six weeks, and the lesson plans have also been incredibly beneficial. This week in class four students, including myself, presented one of our seven lesson plans to the class. We also constructed a list of hook ideas, and I believe we will do something with these lists next week. As we constructed these lists I realized how little of ideas I had for hooks, so I really want to extend my list and use different hook ideas in my future lesson plans. My lesson plans this week will focus on science, mathematics, and language arts/reading. The lesson I am presenting this week to my cooperating teacher's class is going to be a science lesson on electricity since that is the unit that they will be diving into after MAP testing. I look forward to putting it all together!
Sunday, April 2, 2017
March 27: Lesson Plan 5,6, & 7.
I am so thankful that these lesson plans are getting a bit easier to complete. I really like having the book available to help with the strategies as well. The book helps me to complete my lesson plan, because as I write it I help students to meet the standard using the strategy. This week I completed two lesson plans on science, and one on social studies. I am using an A-Z taxonomy for social studies, as well as the guided imagery strategy and KWL plus chart for science. These lessons were fun to write, and I hope to use them one day in the classroom. I find that I often stick with science and social studies lesson plans, but I would like to do another lesson in math but I am not sure what strategies to use. I have only completed one mathematics lesson using the mathematics bookmark strategy, but I would like to do more. If anyone has any ideas, please let me know. Only three more lesson plans to go!
Sunday, March 26, 2017
March 20, 2017
This week I completed my third and fourth lesson plans for class. I must say, they are getting a bit easier to complete, since the strategies are in our books. These strategies help me to personally set up my lesson plans so that I can help meet both my objectives and instructional goals. In class Monday we worked with strategies in the Ruddell text, and our group was assigned the DRA strategy. After working with this strategy to make a lesson plan as a group, I decided to use this strategy in one of my lessons.
In my lesson, students will be working with the standards 3.ESS2.D2: Obtain and combine inform to describe climates in different regions of the world. Students will also be working with the standards 3.ESS2.D1, which deals with deal with vocabulary terms: average temperature, precipitation, and other related terms to help describe the climate of a particular region. We will begin by writing these words on the SMARTboard and I will ask students to tell me what they think each term means. Afterwards, we will work in our textbooks to learn about how meteorologist use these terms ( which we will have discussed) to tell about a particular climate. Students will work in groups of four later in the lesson to describe the climate of an assigned area and share with the class.
The other lesson plan uses the RAFT strategy from the Buehl textbook. This strategy can be used in so many different ways, and with all content areas. RAFT stands for R-role, what is the role of the writer, who are you? A- audience, who are you writing to? F-Format, What form will your writing assume? T- Topic , What are you writing about?
I chose to use the book Charlotte's Web for this lesson plan. Students will have read through the book and will be asked to write a letter. Students will complete a RAFT Role Definition Chart to help them figure out the personality, attitude, and information (page 175) of their character to help them know how to write, who to write to and so on.
In my lesson, students will be working with the standards 3.ESS2.D2: Obtain and combine inform to describe climates in different regions of the world. Students will also be working with the standards 3.ESS2.D1, which deals with deal with vocabulary terms: average temperature, precipitation, and other related terms to help describe the climate of a particular region. We will begin by writing these words on the SMARTboard and I will ask students to tell me what they think each term means. Afterwards, we will work in our textbooks to learn about how meteorologist use these terms ( which we will have discussed) to tell about a particular climate. Students will work in groups of four later in the lesson to describe the climate of an assigned area and share with the class.
The other lesson plan uses the RAFT strategy from the Buehl textbook. This strategy can be used in so many different ways, and with all content areas. RAFT stands for R-role, what is the role of the writer, who are you? A- audience, who are you writing to? F-Format, What form will your writing assume? T- Topic , What are you writing about?
I chose to use the book Charlotte's Web for this lesson plan. Students will have read through the book and will be asked to write a letter. Students will complete a RAFT Role Definition Chart to help them figure out the personality, attitude, and information (page 175) of their character to help them know how to write, who to write to and so on.
Saturday, March 18, 2017
March 13, 2017: Lesson Plans
This week, our task was to complete two lesson plans. I think it's a bit easier to write these lesson plans since we have had written several lesson plans in prior classes, and we are allowed to write lessons for different content areas. This, along with the strategies at hand, makes these lessons easier to complete in my opinion. My lesson plans will be focused on third grade, since this is the grade level I will be presenting my lesson to. I love this grade, they are independent enough, but they also are still sweet and innocent. They most definitely keep me on my toes, but I wouldn't have it any other way. This week, my first lesson will be focused on third grade mathematics. The lesson will be on fractions, and we will be completing a math reading key bookmark (page 145 in the Buehl text) We will start off with a fun video to "hook" my students, then we will read and discuss these terms, use them, and complete the bookmark. I don't have all the details yet, but this lesson's focus will be to help students make sense of terms that we learn about, and this bookmark will be something they will have to look back on, if ever they find themselves needing help.
My next lesson may be relating more to fractions, and I look forward to completing some science and social studies lesson plans as well. :-)
Janaye
My next lesson may be relating more to fractions, and I look forward to completing some science and social studies lesson plans as well. :-)
Janaye
Saturday, March 11, 2017
March 6, 2017
Janaye
caring, determined, kind, reliable.
Wife of Darryn, daughter of John and Wendy, Sister of Jason and Jessica.
Lover of family, ice cream, and naps.
Who feels loved, happy, and anxious.
Who fears loss, rejection, and failure.
Who goes to school full-time, works, and keeps up with laundry.
Who would like to see Alaska, Hawaii, and peace in our nation.
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