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When writing a lesson plan, I always have my students who need accommodations and modifications in mind. My education has been centered around students with special education needs and the students I have had the opportunity to work with require modifications. To ensure I am the best teacher I can be, I need to ensure I have incorporate all my students’ abilities into the lesson plan so they can reach their maximum potential. In this lesson plan, it was written to incorporate two ELL students in

As proposed by Dymoke and Harrison, good lesson planning is essential to successful teaching in so far as stating, `It is often the case that poor teaching, classroom management and behaviour stem from lack of explicit planning` (2008, p.122) It is suggested then, that thorough planning is fundamental to the successful learning of pupils in many ways. Whilst allowing the teacher to follow a process of thinking, providing a mental practice session if you like, the act of planning therefore becomes

Lesson Plan Analysis Alyssa Quatraro Kaplan University Ce330 – Unit 9 Assignment 5/14/15 The book I chose to do an integrated unit on was The Skin You Live In by Michael Taylor with second grade students aged 7-8 years old. The big, colorful pages are vibrant and easy to absorb. This book delivers an important message about acceptance to young readers. It also has a great message that we are all different and the same and we should love ourselves for who we are. I have developed

I recently finished teaching a unit lesson using the book What do you do with an Idea by Kobi Yamada to a first and second grade class. The class met every Thursday which being on a fixed library schedule can be a disadvantage. Prior to starting this unit, I collaborated with Mrs. Uttormark about my idea. She liked the idea. I shared my lesson plan with her and she used it to teach to the rest of the first and second graders. This would also allow students to apply higher order thinking skills. “When

Math Lesson Observation Introduction Mrs. Goss is a first grade teacher at Riverside Elementary, in Jeffersonville, Indiana. Riverside is a Title 1 school. Her class has eighteen students, ten of which are boys and eight are girls. There are two different ethnicities represented in the class with thirteen students who identify as white and five who identify as African American. In terms of what levels the students are on in mathematics, Mrs. Goss identified her class as being evenly split, as six

Engaging Students with Effective Lessons Highly effective teachers create effective lessons that engage their students. In my construction class, I know the importance of effective lessons and preparing my students for the next chapter in their lives. Regardless of the course an educator teaches, there is a list of standards provided by the state and districts that teachers must follow. Effective teachers look at those standards and narrow them down to the power standards or what a student needs

The Lesson of “The Piano Lesson” The theater opens, and the train sounds as August Wilson releases his fourth of ten plays The Piano Lesson, begins. August Wilson writes this play in order to find the legacy of the piano by using the connections of domestic drama to explore questions of personal and cultural inheritance (Elam 362). This play becomes the talk of the town, and in 1990 Wilson wins a Pulitzer Prize for Drama. In August Wilson’s play, The Piano Lesson, the Reader Response Theory is apparent

In The Piano Lesson, the author explains the importance of music and culture. This novel shows the significance that music has. An important event in the novel takes place when the men start singing the work songs at the table (Wilson 1225). This represents how they have all been to jail. Some significant portions of the play are the use of jazz, blues, spirituals, and work songs. The piano is symbolic of the family’s African American culture. The main character Berniece wants to keep the piano

getting a call. She didn’t use profanity but I felt degraded and my confidence went down and I felt like I wasn’t a good teacher. 2. What’s your best approach to lesson planning? The best approach to lesson planning is to be in a quiet space with my materials and I must be

3 -5 minutes  Warm-up: Game “guess my feelings” - Teacher helps students to memorise the vocabulary about “feelings” with this game. - Teacher asks students: + “How are you today?” + “We learnt about ‘my feeings’ in the previous lesson, so I want you to guess my feeling today”. - Teacher describes her feelings in action and then asks students to guess them: + “Look at me and guess my feeling today. Are you ready?” + Key: 1.I’m happy 2.I’m sad 3.I’m sleppy