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Lesson Plan Example #1
I selected this lesson plan for three reasons. The first reason involves using research-based teaching methods. Another reason entails developing critical thinking skills in students. Lastly, I chose this lesson plan because I feel that it reflects the adaptive nature of my teaching in Language Arts.
I developed this lesson plan using the textbook from EDSE 500. I wrote the plan in the spring of my first year of teaching. I had been experimenting with using multiple teaching strategies and concept attainment seemed the strategy would work well with grammatical concepts. I used this lesson to help my students use previous knowledge to describe the grammatical rules involved in making a complete sentence. This lesson helps students develop critical thinking skills as they produce the necessary knowledge and make the rules to information that they would normally read passively in a textbook. I believe students need to be the authors and not just the readers. When they are in charge of their own instruction, students can begin to understand their own potential. They also work collaboratively to defend and explain justifications for their grammatical rules. Although I did not follow the guidelines exactly for concept attainment, I was able to adapt this teaching strategy to fit the needs of my students and my content area.
Lesson Plan #1
Lesson Plan Example #2
I chose this lesson plan because it supports a part of my teaching philosophy. I believe students have a great deal of prior knowledge that remains unlocked. In this lesson on using context clues, students discuss and develop a crucial reading skill. I preach using context clues and I have used this lesson as a good opener to start students thinking about how to use their own knowledge to “guess” the meaning of unknown words. All good readers use context clues and once students realize that they can keep reading without knowing all words—they can start to read material that once looked out of reach. The lesson also serves as a confidence builder. I encourage guessing even if students are wrong (it doesn’t matter)—they gain a sense of ownership over words. The anticipatory set is a memorable one that students have referred back to throughout my two years teaching.
Lesson Plan #2
Lesson Plan Example #3
The last lesson I selected is a lesson on story elements. Again, like the previous two lesson, I used elements of surprise and encouraged students to guess and take control of their own learning. In this lesson, I also employed popular movies and related them with understanding story elements. This lesson like all of the others is not direct instruction. Students provide, form, and explain the needed definitions and information to complete story charts on several popular movies. Students also work collaboratively to complete the problem of the missing story element descriptors.
Lesson Plan #3
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