INTASC Principles - Assignment Example

Lesson Plan Template ** TEACH IT, PRACTICE IT, TEST IT! ** Lesson Plan Module 3 Teacher Candi Critical Literary Reading LESSON PREPARATION [before the lesson]Topic: Biography of Walter Dean MyersConcept: Extraction of points of interest from the text.Subject: Individual presentation, Class discussion, Reading, Drafting an outline.Grade: Grade 7Primary Objective: Students will learn to analyze a text critically, linking the available resource to the previous schema. They will share their extracts of the homework assignment one by one.

The class will learn to be attentive to the written as well as the spoken word in order to get maximum information required for the final draft. They will learn to confidently present their ideas, however small they may seem with the rest of the class as they share their points of curiosity about Walter Dean Myers. After the individual work done at home has been shared, the students will listen attentively as the teacher reads out the biography of Walter Dean Myers. They will learn the use of highlighting and annotating techniques required to prepare the final draft outline on the chart papers.

A slide presentation will be shown as recapitulation for the students’ using the visual technique as well. Classroom Diversity and Differentiated Instruction: This lesson will incorporate individual work presentation of the previous assignment. The response of different students to the question: ‘What do you want to know about Walter Dean Myers?’ will be a reflection of the various and diverse ethnic, cultural and academic levels of the class. Each response will be acknowledged and encouraged to have a differentiated class room discussion environment.

Students showing lack of interest would be gently encouraged and would be bound to participate in the classroom discussion, hence drawing a maximum learning incorporating Piaget’s theory. Students will be informed of the importance of being attentive to other view points.Materials/Equipment: Hard Chart Paper, colorful markers, laptop, projector, teacher-created assessment questionnaire, reading material: (2011) Biography of Walter Dean Myers.Technology Integration: Students will be given a slide presentation about Walter Dean Myers.

This will be helpful in incorporating visual methodology as well as the integration of technology.LESSON PRESENTATION [during the lesson] The following steps are designed to prepare students to be successful in the summative evaluation at the end of the lesson.SetStudent feedback will be taken about the previous assignment of the rough draft of the literary essay based on ‘Scorpions’ by Walter Dean Myers.Student curiosity would be aroused by asking the question ‘What do you want to learn about Walter Dean Myers?

’Teacher Instruction:Students will put forth their points of interest about the Walter Dean Myers.Teacher Modeling: The teacher facilitates the students by encouraging each one to share their idea.Guided Student Practice The students will participate in a classroom discussion on the author. All students will give their input. The teacher reinforces the importance of being attentive to each others’ viewpoint, and gives a brief insight into highlighting and annotating techniques to be implemented individually by each student.

The students will listen and take notes carefully as the teacher reads out the biography. The students will see the presentation slide on the Biography of Walter Dean Myers. Independent Student PracticeEach student will draft an outline of the biography answering the question ‘What do you want to know about Walter Dean Myers?’Closure The teacher will recapitulate the salient points of the biography. Each student’s work will be presented and shared with the class. The teacher will appreciate the student(s) who has done well.

Summative AssessmentEach student will be provided with teacher-created assessment sheet having short questions about the life of Walter Dean Myers to assess the improvement of the students’ schema about the author.INTASC Principle #4Student Name:Creation of Artifact: Summer 2012Grade and Subject area: Grade 7 Critical Literary Reading.For what class or learning experience this artifact was created: A lesson plan developed for the students to encourage the development of critical reading skills based on a homework assignment of a critical essay on ‘Scorpions’ by Walter Dean Myers.

Artifact: A reading lesson plan which enhances critical thinking processes.Attached:Student_Biography ofWalterDeanMyers_Principle4Character Education: This lesson plan will inculcate the trait of attentiveness in the students.By paying attention to the responses of other students about the homework assignment each student will broaden his/her schema about Walter Dean Myers.The students will then listen carefully as the teacher reads the biography.

They will take notes,highlight or annotate the respective text in order to prepare the draft of the information of interest about Walter Dean Myers.At the end of the class the student who was the most attentive would get appreciation from the teacher, reinforcing the value and importance of being attentive in order to be successful.Reflection: I planned this lesson according to Piaget’s Cognitive Theory aimed at the age group of 12-15 year olds in the concrete operational and/or formal operational stage.

The students were given an assignment related to the author as homework enabling each individual to form a schema according to his/her perception. In class the repetition of the schema of all students one by one enabled each to apply the processes of assimilation/accommodation/equiliberation to improve upon the individual schema, resulting in a collective class schema about Walter Dean Myers.At this point each student was asked about his/her personal point of interest in the author,eliciting interesting responses from students.

The biography was read aloud to them and they were asked to prepare drafts using their points of interest. This resulted in the improvement of the collective class schema as well as in the attentiveness of the students.Principle #4: The teacher understands and uses a variety of instructional strategies to encourage students’ development of critical thinking,problem solving and performance skills