To allow for an active and engaging lesson, teachers need to plan effective, differential and suitable activities with appropriate learning outcomes. Prior planning and understanding of lesson requirements can achieve this and as teachers, it is important to implement strategies that specifically meet the needs of the students.
Effectively engaging activities
The activities chosen for each lesson are to help motivate students to demonstrate prior knowledge and promote their thinking to successfully obtain and demonstrate new skills. Within each warm up stage the students repeat the same process to ensure routine is mastered and the students have the stability to know exactly what is expected each morning (Scholastic, 2014). For instance, students are asked to sit on the floor, the teacher explains the day and goes through the one to one hundred number chart with the children (focussing on one to ten, fifteen and twenty the next lessons) and uses the interactive whiteboard with three different YouTube clips demonstrating counting. The first lesson focuses on the initial learning of number and place value with group involvement and hands on learning. This allows the students to participate with their peers in an enjoyable environment (McLeod, Fisher & Hoover, 2004). Student’s motivation to learn needs to be encouraged …show more content…
This allows connection to the curriculum to what the students are required to be taught yet would be modified to allow for all diversities in the classroom. For those students who finish the sheet quickly (fast finishers) they are then asked to practice their handwriting skills with different sets of numbers and develop a number line to show the correct place value. Again certain students would receive different numbers to practice and to use in their number line (Queensland Government,
Effectively engaging activities
The activities chosen for each lesson are to help motivate students to demonstrate prior knowledge and promote their thinking to successfully obtain and demonstrate new skills. Within each warm up stage the students repeat the same process to ensure routine is mastered and the students have the stability to know exactly what is expected each morning (Scholastic, 2014). For instance, students are asked to sit on the floor, the teacher explains the day and goes through the one to one hundred number chart with the children (focussing on one to ten, fifteen and twenty the next lessons) and uses the interactive whiteboard with three different YouTube clips demonstrating counting. The first lesson focuses on the initial learning of number and place value with group involvement and hands on learning. This allows the students to participate with their peers in an enjoyable environment (McLeod, Fisher & Hoover, 2004). Student’s motivation to learn needs to be encouraged …show more content…
This allows connection to the curriculum to what the students are required to be taught yet would be modified to allow for all diversities in the classroom. For those students who finish the sheet quickly (fast finishers) they are then asked to practice their handwriting skills with different sets of numbers and develop a number line to show the correct place value. Again certain students would receive different numbers to practice and to use in their number line (Queensland Government,