Monday, April 10th Blog Post

  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. :)    

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!    

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!