discovered one of the top technologies for teacher organization and lesson planning. Planboard is ranked number twenty-three overall and second in the category of ‘Lesson Planning and Tools: Use these tech tools to pull together great lessons and design amazing and memorable student projects’. Planboard Free is free to download. It includes 100 lesson plans and 25MB of storage. Planboard Pro is an upgraded version that includes unlimited lesson plans, unlimited standards, and 1GB of storage (Edshelf) Planboard
As a future educator learning from others is the most important thing listening to a teacher's battles in the classroom from a teacher that has only taught a year to one that has been teaching for twenty year. The fact that we get to ask questions is ridiculously important for our futures in the classroom. Although, the teacher that was interviewed was a new teacher which we can relate to, the fact that he had to manage the fact that he is now in control of a class instead of just observing. He had
memorable nickname, “His Airness”, Jordan is also widely regarded as the greatest basketball player to ever set foot on the court. Young athletes across the world look up to Jordan and strive to be just like him. In the biography, How to Be Like Mike: Life Lessons About Basketball’s Best, author Pat Williams portrays the many qualities of Michael Jordan that makes him one of the best athletes in the history of sports, both on and off the court. Despite being a Lebron James fan, I still think that Michael
In Life lessons from an ad man, Rory Sutherland asserts that advertising adds value to a product by changing our perception rather than the product itself. In one particular example, Sutherland shares a story about the potato. Initially undesirable, Frederick the Great of Prussia seeks to rebrand the potato. He declares the potato to be a royal vegetable and grows them in his royal garden with soldiers guarding around the clock. The perception of the potato begins to change resulting in a thriving
Everyone, at some point in their life, has made a mistake. Sometimes we get lucky and only falter a little, making it through the problem relatively intact. Other times, we mess up a lot and have to fix what was damaged over a long period of time. However, the same is true for most, if not all cases—those who make the mistake learn from it. Often times, our failures teach us valuable lessons that we only gained because of the experience we gathered after messing up. I have personally achieved a wealth
I found a great lesson to work off of for my lesson plan on history of the Homestead Act. The original lesson was well organized but very short. I chose to focus on Domain 2 Conceptual Understandings because this lesson plan only had one assessment and I felt that the assessment was weak in whether a teacher could gage students understanding of the material. This lesson did a below average job of explaining what the Homestead Act is through its powerpoint slideshow and worksheet activities. I also
log. The first lesson that stuck with me would be lesson three on note taking. This lesson was valuable to me for many reasons. At first I use to try to write down every word I saw on a power point or heard the teacher say. Also, when I wrote notes I never would go over them and I never really understood what I wrote or what they meant. But in this lesson I was taught not to write down everything but the things that are important and that I would see on a test. Also in this lesson I learned that
created this unit plan in which children will learn about the life cycle of the butterfly as well as some math concepts. Both notions are supported by NYS standards. This unit will start with the butterfly life cycle, then move on to counting, sorting and categorizing, shapes, and problem solving. For the first lesson of this unit, “Butterfly Life Cycle,” children will learn about the life cycle of a butterfly through the book A Butterfly's Life by Dona Herweck Rice as well as through
Kindergarten Unit Lesson Plan Introduction: My kindergarten learners are very diverse. It is comprised of twenty-one 5 and 6 year old students. There are 11 boys and 10 girls. In my class, there are children with ADHD, severe learning disabilities, multiple ESL learners, Cerebral Palsy, Severe Behavior, and other assortment of needs. Unit Summary: This lesson unit focuses on the life cycle of butterflies. Students will learn about the growth cycle of a butterfly and what the stages are by name
design for learning (UDL) in the design of instruction and assessment. In this assignment, a lesson plan is developed, incorporating UDL and effectively leveraging educational technologies in the classroom. Part I: Instructional Plan Lesson Overview Title: Reading, Rhyme and Vocabulary Author: [Rick Akura] Subject: Reading/Language Arts Grade Level(s): Pre-K–2 Duration: 85 minutes Unit Description This lesson is intended to teach my Kindergartners how to read the provided reading material observing