Choose a social science/history topic suitable for a high school lecture or discussion and prepare a “rough draft” lesson plan for that lecture. Make sure your plan indicates the general purpose of the class session and some ideas for keeping students’ minds engaged. Include also any ideas you might have for visual aids, an introductory “hook,” or any of the other elements TSSFFAP says are important to effective teaching.
If you are doing your junior field experience this semester, it would be best to have a lesson plan you have actually used in class.
Please send me the lesson plan as an e-mail attachment before class (marmorsa@northern.edu). After class, please return to this post and comment on the class session itself. What new ideas for effective teaching did you get from today's class?
The best thing I learned from class yesterday was different ideas for games and ways to assess students knowledge. Having students write a paper to compare and contrast things is really a good idea because it makes the students apply the learning specifically. Having the students make treaties and act them out in a way was also really smart. It get's all of the students involved and thinking all at the same time. I'm sure the others who shared their lesson plan during the junior field session had other wonderful ideas that worked well in the classroom and have good future implications.
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ReplyDeleteThe best thing I learned is to be flexible in the classroom. The many ideas shared at the junior field session were good. I liked how Ms. Donne’ put together her PowerPoint and presented it on Tuesday. It is funny to me that everyone was touching on Nixon on Tuesday, as I used him as an example for my Monday lecture. It seems that everyone is on the same brain wave. I liked the paper idea that compared and contrasted items, though if high gave such an assignment I would shorten the length. I feel that the more activities you do in the classroom the better. Remember the less assignments you give like busy work, the less stress you will be under , as you won’t have to grade all of these needless assignments. Using expression and students as human visuals is a great way to tie in concepts. Make the experience fun and exciting for the kids even if you are working with very ancient material. If you can think creatively, there is nothing you can’t do.
ReplyDeleteThe class session was a good way for us to share our ideas and talk a bit about lesson planning and different ways to assess students. I also learned different methods how to get students involved in class. I really liked the chant that we did. That would definitely be a method that would get students more involved in a lecture.
ReplyDeleteDoc. Marmorstein gave me the green light to do this on one of my lectures. In my 121 class we were discussing the Avignon Papacy (when the Pope up and left Rome and moved to SE France). This lecture went pretty well, and though there were a few hiccups during my lecture I believe I was able to get the important aspects of the lecture through to my students. I misread my notes and began discussing a person that had little to do with the event in the 14th century. After my realization of my error, I addressed the class and took responsibility. As this was towards the end of the class period, I took my notes home, re-worded and clarified them. Though I was a little embarrassed, I realized we are all human and the important thing about this occurrence was that I quickly owned up to my mistake and corrected it the next meeting. During that next meeting, I then conducted a quick survey in the class and made certain that all my students understood the previous day's lesson. I think this was a good learning experience because things will not always go perfectly and you must adapt and overcome when these situations arise.
ReplyDeleteCommon core seems to be a new trend but it will not be the last reform we see in education. What I mean by that is that Common core is a new trend and we can see the effects it has on students. Yes, it may put more pressure on the students to test at a higher level than before.I totally agree that Common Core waters down some states higher standards, and ignores all subjects but math, science & English. Common Core is just another trend...but a successful one. We all seem to be stuck with it until the next great thing comes along.The more we learn, the more we have to be pushed. That to grow and evolve, change is impediment. But, I don't think its changing in the right direction.Common core makes teaching/creating lesson plans more difficult for educators and it almost seems to ignore history and other "non core" courses. Forcing a history teacher to include common core language arts skills in every single lesson plan is going to detract from their field of study creating less focused, more nonsensical lesson plans.
ReplyDeleteFlexibility is key to a well running engine. I hope to use common core in my classroom and allow for breaks to step away from it as well. I enjoyed everyone lesson plan and thought it was kinda neat most all touched on the fact Nixon was a big part of history that will never just be common. lol
I had fun with this assignment and hopefully will be able to take key points and apply them in everyday situations.
My class went well i was able to get good discussion out of my students. I felt like i was able to get them to really think about some situations and wonder whether the supreme court's decisions were constitutional i also felt like doing a class room activity made it more enjoyable than just lecturing to the kids the entire time.
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