Assignment: Lesson Plan #1 and Chapter 3 Reading

1. Revise your draft lesson plan to turn it in by Thursday, September 24th.
   • Use the feedback that you got from your peers as well as from class discussion on Thursday to help you revise your plan.
   • Here are the “codes” used by some when giving feedback:
     • CU – Check for Understanding
     • GP – Guided Practice
     • RPL – Review of Previous Learning
     • II – Instructional Input
     • M – Modeling
   • It may help to review pgs. 183-190 in your Effective Teaching Methods textbook written by Borich.
2. Don’t forget to include at least Literacy/ELA standard and at least one standard from a content area.  Please see the links below to the Ohio Resource Center website if you need access to the standards

ELA Common Core State Standards by grade level can be found here.
Literacy Standards for 6-12 in History/Social Studies, Science & Technical Subjects, and Writing are found at the bottom of the webpage.
Look Content Area Standards by subject:
Mathematics
Science
Social Studies

3.  If you email a copy of your revised lesson plan to me by 9:00 p.m. on Sunday (9/20), I will give it a quick review and let your know if you are likely to earn a “B” grade or better by Tuesday at noon.  If your lesson plan won’t earn a passing grade, I will give you some feedback for improvement.  To those who are still concerned, please don’t stress!  After our work in Thursday’s class, I’m confident that you know what makes a good lesson plan.  This is the first lesson plan out of the five that you’ll be turning in for this course. This lesson plan doesn’t alone stand as the most important part of your grade.

4.  Please print out your lesson plan and turn in a hard copy to me in class on Thursday.  I’m not sure if I’ll require this every time, but a hard copy will make grading it a little easier for me this time.

5. Don’t forget to read Chapter 3 “Culturally Responsive Teaching in Diverse Classrooms” in your textbook.  You don’t have a new reading strategy to practice for this week, but please bring the K.I.M. strategy vocabulary sheet that you completed for Chapter 2 to class.  We’ll go over Chapters 2 and 3 in our next class.

Lesson Plan Tips and Links

1. t Use the MAP Lesson Plan Form.  Click here to open an editable copy is MS Word.
   Note:  Please save your lesson plan as a Word document rather than another format.
   
2. Include at least one ELA common core standard with at least one related activity and one content area standard with related activities.  Your lesson plan should be a blend of literacy and content area instruction.
3. Include details and be specific so that your lesson plan is clear and well-defined!  Could another teacher could pick up your plan and teach the lesson exactly as you intended?
4. The Peer Feedback Lesson Plan checklist that we used in class to evaluate our first draft lesson plan may help you make sure that important elements are included.
5. Look at the lesson plan rubric carefully.  All components must score a 3 or 4 to earn an A or a B.  You’ll find the lesson plan rubric in the MAP Lesson Plan Form.

ELA Common Core State Standards by grade level can be found here.
Literacy Standards for 6-12 in History/Social Studies, Science & Technical Subjects, and Writing are found at the bottom of the webpage.

Look for other Content Area Standards by subject:

Mathematics

Science

Social Studies

 

Assignment: Chapter 2 Reading and Draft Lesson Plan

1.  Read Chapter 2 “Learning with New Literacies” in your textbook.  Use the K.I.M. strategy for 5 vocabulary terms that are new to you (or that you think might be new to your classmates).
2. Develop a lesson plan for use with students in your field experience classroom.  You must use the MAP Lesson Plan form. You can open a copy by clicking on this link.  Remember to go to file, choose”Save as” and name your lesson plan document.

This lesson plan can be on any content area topic, but must include at least one activity/strategy that supports reading instruction.  You can use lesson plans at OhioRC.org or ReadWriteThink.org or any teacher’s manuals and resource books that are available to you.

Your draft lesson plan is due on Tuesday, September 15th.  That’s before our next class on Se.ptember 17th.  Turn in the assignment by attaching it an email to me:  laura.bogush@ursuline.edu .

This draft lesson plan will not be graded.  Instead, we will be reviewing the draft lesson plans anonymously in class on the 17th.  You will receive feedback from at least two of your peers about your lesson plan.  You can use this information to revise your lesson plan to turn in on September 24th.  The final lesson plan will be graded.

 

Chapter 1 Reading and Response

Read Chapter 1 “Literacy Matters” in the course textbook.

As you read, use the color card strategy introduced in class to evaluate your understand of the text.  Don’t forget to “flag the foggy parts” that might be difficult for some to understand.

Mark one “A-Ha” with your Post-t.  Your “A-Ha” will be something that you read that had significant meaning to you. Be prepared to share and discuss your “A-Ha” in the next class.

Question:  What  do you personally do as a reader to make meaning and construct knowledge as you interact with text?

Respond in the comment section below.  Due by 9/10 (end of the day).