Lesson Plans/Planning Essay

A 4. Describe your students’ prior instruction and background knowledge and how those factors will influence your planning and/or instruction for the lesson you will submit. What do students need to know before they engage in this lesson? Include, as well, what do children know, what can they do and what are they learning to do related to language and literacy development? Students are familiar with chicks, butterflies, and frogs, and most have seen these animals before. However, most…

paper is a justification of the lesson plans and scope and unit outline designed for the business management course using the Understanding by Design (UbD) method. It explains how UbD can be used to ensure maximum effectiveness in the learning experiences of the students. The paper will also highlight the role of threshold concepts in promoting student understanding of the subject matter. Understanding by Design provides the teacher with a framework for curriculum planning, assessment and…

and my co-teacher’s is incredible. The target students have struggled with keeping attention during lecture. My co-teachers answer to this problem is repetition. She says the same thing over and over to them until they hear it in their sleep. This lesson allowed me to try and integrate something a little more engaging. I realized early on that the target class has an interest in music and poetry. Utilizing the poem coupled with the activity of laying out each transaction appeared to really make…

whether or not if writing their thoughts or answers for the text-dependent questions would help them while writing the main purpose of the text. Perhaps it could guide them on what they want to write. However, I do believe the lesson went fairly well as well as the planning. The only difficulty I faced was making sure my assessment aligned with my objective and standard. This always seems to be my problem so as a result I will practice writing these…

Ashbrook, P. (2014). The Nature of Science in Early Childhood. Science & Children, 52(1), 24-25. To begin, this article is very beneficial to all early childhood teachers. It gives tips and advice to teaching young students science, and then explains why something should or should not be done in a science class. The author gives descriptive details as to what teachers in a science class should say to get students to think about science, and to think like scientists. The author then talks about…

The backward design will be the focus for my lessons. I will explain the goals and objectives and identify the essential and overarching questions in a way the students will understand the aiming target of learning. The activities that will help in leading the students in the way the lesson want them to go, will enhance the big idea of the lesson. Therefore, the students will be able to show what they have learned in a way that they can apply it…

A lesson plan was written up for a Year 5 Humanities and Social Science lesson covering the curriculum content, why people work in groups to achieve their aims, and how they can express their shared beliefs and values and exercise influence (ACHCK027) (Australian Curriculum, n.d.). The completed lesson plan was then emailed to three peers and the unit tutor. The peers and tutor were to review and provide constructive feedback on how the lesson plan could be improved. Through the process of…

because it helped me to see how lesson planning is vital when it comes to the teaching-learning process. Allowing me to properly plan ahead helped me to stay organized and keep on track, thus allowing me to teach more. Not only that, I was able to help students reach objectives more easily and spend less time on managing the classroom. This provided me to have a coherent framework for effective teaching, to be more confident when delivering the lesson, and helping me plan for future adjustments…

help them make the mathematical connections to the objective and strategies. Careful planning can reduce behavior problems and help the lesson flow more smoothly. More importantly, careful planning can make the difference between a good lesson and a life learned lesson for…

Overall, the students scored well, when all of the questions were put together. When looking at each individual pre-test, only four students passed with proficiency. Proficiency passing, in Newport News, means that a student will have a grade equal to or above seventy percent. Other students had scores ranging from zero to sixties. No student received a grade of one hundred percent. With the pre-test it showed that I needed to teach how to write the fractions using sets, shading in the correct…