Lesson Plan & Reflection
Description:
For this assignment, you will plan and teach a social studies lesson in your field-based classroom. A rough draft of your lesson plan and a lesson plan meeting that you will have with Dr. Fox BEFORE teaching your lesson will count as your Midterm Exam. You will also write a reflection that focuses on 4 MoSPE standards based on this lesson.
For this assignment, you will plan and teach a social studies lesson in your field-based classroom. A rough draft of your lesson plan and a lesson plan meeting that you will have with Dr. Fox BEFORE teaching your lesson will count as your Midterm Exam. You will also write a reflection that focuses on 4 MoSPE standards based on this lesson.
1) Prepare to design your lesson plan
1) Make a copy of this scoring guide.
3) Make a copy of this junior block lesson plan to write your lesson and add your name to the beginning of the title (e.g., FoxJennifer).
- Move it in your shared Google folder.
- Remember to add your name (e.g., FoxJennifer) to the beginning of the document’s title.
3) Make a copy of this junior block lesson plan to write your lesson and add your name to the beginning of the title (e.g., FoxJennifer).
- Move the document to your shared Google folder.
- Add your link to this spreadsheet in the correct column.
- REQUIRED 3 standards are:
- 1 - Content/Engagement
- 2 - Differentiation
- 4 - Critical Thinking
- Choose 1 more from the following (which makes a total of 4):
- 3 - Curriculum
- 5 - Behavior/Classroom Management
- 6 - Communication
- 7 - Assessment
- 8 - Professionalism
- 9 - Collaboration
- 10 - Being Christ to Others (not an official MoSPE standard, but the SBU EDU department has adopted it to reflect our values
2) Designing your lesson plan
1) Talk to your cooperating teacher about your lesson idea and the students' prior knowledge of the content you wish to teach. Include this information at the top of your lesson plan. This information will help you plan and have a more successful lesson.
*******2) Additional required components within your lesson include:
4) Remember you WILL be choosing 2 focus students to write about in the second paragraph of your reflection, so keep that in mind when planning and implementing your lesson. Consult your cooperating teacher, if needed.
*******2) Additional required components within your lesson include:
- One piece of children’s literature (text) - could be a poem, book, song, etc.,
- One hands-on component (game, using clay, manipulatives, props, etc.), and
- Represent the arts in some way (music, art, drama, movement, etc.).
- ONE activity/resource can meet multiple requirements above. (In other words, if you do a song on chart paper for the children's literature component, that could also count as the "arts" component as well.)
4) Remember you WILL be choosing 2 focus students to write about in the second paragraph of your reflection, so keep that in mind when planning and implementing your lesson. Consult your cooperating teacher, if needed.
3) Meet with Dr. Fox
1) Sign up for a 30-minute lesson plan meeting with Dr. Fox BEFORE Friday, Oct. 9 at noon. This will count as your midterm exam grade. Bring to this meeting:
- Rough draft of your lesson completed through the "Differentiation" section.
- Questions about how to make your lesson better
- Concerns you have after talking to your cooperating teacher
4) Revise your lesson / Get final approval
1) Make changes to your lesson based on your meeting with Dr. Fox.
2) Submit your improved lesson to your cooperating teacher to have it reviewed and approved at least one week in advance of teaching the lesson. ****VERY IMPORTANT
3) Make sure if your cooperating teacher suggests further changes that you redo/rethink/revise your lesson before you teach it. Then email to your teacher to verify the changes are acceptable.
2) Submit your improved lesson to your cooperating teacher to have it reviewed and approved at least one week in advance of teaching the lesson. ****VERY IMPORTANT
3) Make sure if your cooperating teacher suggests further changes that you redo/rethink/revise your lesson before you teach it. Then email to your teacher to verify the changes are acceptable.
5) Teach the Lesson
1) The day you teach the lesson, print out a hard copy of the evaluation tool, and have your cooperating teacher fill out the top portion while you are teaching.
2) S/he needs to write comments in each of the boxes to explain the numbers given. Explain that this is a part of your learning process, so you will appreciate their feedback. Some teachers struggle with giving feedback, but be open to hearing what they say. This will be handed in as a hard copy.
3) Teach the lesson!
4) Pay attention to your focus students during your lesson as they complete the activities and assessment. You will need these details as you write your reflection. You also need to make sure and collect examples of BOTH focus students' work AND self-assessments, so you can turn these in as hard copies with your lesson.
2) S/he needs to write comments in each of the boxes to explain the numbers given. Explain that this is a part of your learning process, so you will appreciate their feedback. Some teachers struggle with giving feedback, but be open to hearing what they say. This will be handed in as a hard copy.
3) Teach the lesson!
4) Pay attention to your focus students during your lesson as they complete the activities and assessment. You will need these details as you write your reflection. You also need to make sure and collect examples of BOTH focus students' work AND self-assessments, so you can turn these in as hard copies with your lesson.
6) After the lesson.....
1) Complete the bottom portion of the evaluation tool yourself. This will be included as a hard copy.
2) Immediately after teaching the lesson (if at all possible), take some notes about how things went. Be honest. This is a learning process, so being honest about what went well and what didn't contributes to your growth as a teacher. We KNOW you are not perfect, and we are not expecting perfection. Writing these notes immediately after teaching will help you as you write your reflection.
3) Write your lesson plan reflection (explained in detail below).
2) Immediately after teaching the lesson (if at all possible), take some notes about how things went. Be honest. This is a learning process, so being honest about what went well and what didn't contributes to your growth as a teacher. We KNOW you are not perfect, and we are not expecting perfection. Writing these notes immediately after teaching will help you as you write your reflection.
3) Write your lesson plan reflection (explained in detail below).
7) Write your MoSPE standard reflection
After completing the above steps, you will reflect on the lesson focusing on MoSPE standards 1, 2, 4, and one of your choice list. Follow the specifics below to reflect on the implementation of your lesson. The reflection should be a Google Document in your shared folder and approximately 400-500 words long (equal to approximately one-page single-spaced document).
Your reflection will consist of 3 paragraphs with specific requirements for each. Please follow the directions below:
1) Paragraph 1: MoSPE Standards (MoSPE 1, 2, 4, and one of your choice)
Your reflection will consist of 3 paragraphs with specific requirements for each. Please follow the directions below:
1) Paragraph 1: MoSPE Standards (MoSPE 1, 2, 4, and one of your choice)
- a) Begin with a statement regarding your classroom demographics addressing community, school, grade level, number of students, gender of students, etc.
- b) Provide evidence that you, as a teacher candidate, met the MoSPE standards in this lesson.
- 1) Use the SPECIFIC language of the goal. Refer back to the example we used the first day of the semester in the packet you received.
- 2) Give proof of how you met the goals. In other words, how did you accomplish that particular goal with your lesson? (You should have labeled these within your lesson plan, so this part should be relatively easy.) For EACH of your 4 MoSPE standards:
- State the standard first. For example, if I were using standard 1.1, I could start by saying, "MoSPE standard 1 states that teachers should understand the central concepts, structures, and tools of inquiry of the discipline and create learning experiences that make these aspects of subject matter meaningful and engaging for students." This is the exact language of the standard found here.
- Then you need to describe how YOU did that within the lesson. In other words, how can you prove that you had enough content knowledge to teach that social studies lesson? Did you align your lesson with standards? (Of course you did!) Did you conduct research on the content to prepare to teach it? (I'm sure you did!) Did you talk to your cooperating teacher or plan together to shore up your knowledge? Did you have students focus on the vocabulary associated with a specific time period? Did you ask pertinent questions to draw out specific points of the time period?
- Whatever you did for your lesson to show that you prepared and know your stuff would fit within MoSPE standard 1.
- You only need to give one or two examples from your lesson for EACH standard.
- Look closely at your two focus students. Based on your experiences with these students and conversations with the cooperating teacher, describe what you know about them as learners (learning style) and workers in your classroom.
- Tell about each student's strengths and challenges. (This can include personal preferences, observations within the classroom, etc. Help me get to know them better.)
- Tell what modifications you utilized to meet their individual learning needs (based on what you already said you know about them).
- Describe the teaching strategies you used with each child. How did you modify the directions or formats of the assessments for these two students? What different materials or resources did you utilize for these two students?
- What PARTICULARs did you use and how did these modifications impact the two focus students' learning outcomes? Be detailed and specific regarding the impact. What were their learning outcomes?
- Describe each students' assessment results. How did the modifications impact their learning? Did they meet the objective? Did they struggle with understanding? How do you know?
- S—Strengths - Brag on yourself and tell what you did well to support student engagement, interaction, and learning.
- W—Weaknesses - We know you aren’t perfect, so tell what didn’t go well. You can also include in this part how you deviated from your lesson plan or didn't get to a certain section.
- A—Assessment Results - Analyze the overall impact on student learning. What did you do to assess them throughout the lesson to make sure that your objective was met? What did you find out from your evaluation? Did all, some, or none meet the objective? Be specific.
- N—Next time - Analyze the lesson teaching experience. Share how you will improve the situation next time if you get to teach the lesson again. What evidence of student learning will guide your planning of future lessons? Consider: instructional strategies, learning activities, materials, resources, and technology.
To Be Turned In:
The next class period after the lesson was taught, have all of the following ready to turn in either online or hard copy (as specified below):
1) Google Drive shared folder (If you want to make a Lesson Plan folder WITHIN your Google shared folder, that would be great! This helps me as I grade not to miss something.):
1) Google Drive shared folder (If you want to make a Lesson Plan folder WITHIN your Google shared folder, that would be great! This helps me as I grade not to miss something.):
- All documents, presentations, forms, etc. that you used for your lesson. This includes brainstorming documents or anything else you created.
- Lesson Plan document
- MoSPE Reflection document (see specifics above)
- Lesson Plan and Reflection Scoring Guide (should have already made a copy above - this is only 1 document)
- Evaluation tools (both yours and cooperating teacher's---this can be one page that contains both)
- Student work examples - especially the 2 focus students' work. If you don't have the hard copies, make sure you take pictures of the students' work and upload them to your GDrive folder. Link them on your lesson plan. (Can be pictures within your GDrive folder)
- At least one copy of the student assessment and one copy student self-evaluation (These are 2 different things. If you don't know, please ask!), (Can be pictures within your GDrive folder)
- Scoring guide you created to assess the student product (if applicable)--the scoring guide can be on Google Drive or physical.