Social Semiotics as Praxis - Assignment Example

LESSON PLAN FORMAT

Unit/Lesson Title   Financial Market

Lesson duration 6 hours  

Stage 1

Class/Group  

Rationale: This unit is specifically designed for giving students an understanding of financial concepts and to guide them on how they can use financial concepts in the market.

 Judge the importance, significance of dealing with banks and financial institutions in Australia. To learn how we can interact with the country’s economy.

Prior Knowledge Students have a management background. They have a few concepts about finance, markets, and accounting. This lesson will help in reducing ambiguity in their concepts.

Risk Assessment: Students may get confused about the financial market & the influence of banks and their daily rates in our lives. It will be the first priority to assist them at every stage so they can learn more and more concepts about financial markets.

Resources

Internet access. Internet libraries will be used accordingly.

Official website of Australian Bank. It’s a mentoring policy that can be accessed through this website.

 the federal budget, economic information can be easily viewed on this portal.

the function of ASX including a game simulation can be viewed on this portal.

Specific Teaching target first three topmost teaching targets would be:

1)      Strong classroom management.

2)      To ensure that every student gets a complete and full idea about primary and secondary markets, financial concepts, and bank dealing.

3)      To give each and every single concept full concentration and strong demonstration. 

Learning Outcomes:

 Full and strong demonstration of financial concepts, terms, and relations.

Understanding the role of individuals, firms, and banks in an economy.

Sheds light on issues and causes of financial crises.

Application of concepts and terminologies in economic concepts.

Presenting data from various resources and provide evidence.

Apply statistical concepts in the economic domain.

Students will:

 Get a deep understanding of the primary and secondary markets.

Comprehensive knowledge of relations and terms commonly used in the banking sector.

Class activity will help them in substantive conversation. They will be able to build their concepts on each other ideas.

 The lesson plan will cover all basic and advanced concepts related to financial markets. The plan provides an understanding of financial products. This will help in understanding the impact of consumer dealing with banks on the Australian economy.

The section sheds light on the role of individuals, firms in the country’s economy.

 Section deals with the root causes, and how they can be dealt with. What are the impacts of it on the common man?

 The section explains how real practices and economic concepts can be applied in real-life scenarios.

 All new and updated resources will be used in order to provide new and authorized concepts regarding financial institutions, banks, and the country’s economy.

 The section will also cover the application of mathematical concepts in economics. Students will learn how mathematics can be applied in the economic domain and to what extent it will facilitate banking.

 Body (Exploration/Transformation/Presentation)

 The unit covers basic and advanced concepts of the banking sector. The unit deals with the relationship between individuals and firms. It also deals with theories in an economic context. The section provides data from various resources for relevance and reliability. The unit will help in developing multiliteracy skills in them. The unit is fully comprised of terms, concepts, relationships that will surely help in enhancing the awareness of multiliteracy in economics. Group activities will help them in enhancing their communication skills. Audio, Video aid will be used in the plan in order to provide them a chance to listen/practice ways to speak the language. The plan is specifically designed to keep an eye on changing requirements of the banking sector and the needs of multiliteracy in students. The plan will give complete guidelines that how a new start-up company can get established in the market, What would be the hurdles for it, how managers can take the business to the peaks and how the multiliteracy concept will help them out. The plan provides the guidelines for the beginners who want to establish their own venture, the plan will tell them what factors will need to be considered on start-up, which financial institution will be involved, and which financial products would they use. The teacher will demonstrate a presentation about new start-up companies’ journey on the ladder of success. Audio/video material will be of great help.

 Conclusion (Presentation/Reflection)

The lesson is specifically designed to keep an eye on changing needs of the banking sector. The plan will help finance students in understanding the basic and updated concepts of the financial market. They will be able to learn the primary and secondary market environment and the relationship between both. The lesson will be presented in such a way that every student could realize the multiliteracy significance in this fast-moving world.

 
To ensure class management i.e. every student must have required essential documents.

Discussion to know what students already know and to share their ideas.

Selection of 2-5 students for writing their ideas, concepts on board.

 Present a PowerPoint presentation in order to provide them an idea of multiliteracy that how things become different at various ends.

Use of audiovisual aid in order to enhance plan’s outcome.

Providing a complete idea and understanding of “how the market works” and “what would be needed if they want to set up a business in an established market.

 4 students group are there in order to boost their brainstorming.

Group discussion will help them in boosting up their thinking and language power.

Question answers will be allowed in order to give them the freedom to share their ideas on demand, supply, and other financial concepts.

 The teacher will use a questionnaire at the beginning of class to judge their basic concepts.

Feedback forms will be provided to them to get their suggestion, comments about the session.

Confusing questions will be there at the end of the session in order to judge their learning.

A quick quiz will be there at the end of the session.

Transitions to next lesson: Next lesson will focus on advanced concepts of financial markets and will focus on the international market.

EVALUATIONS

Lesson Evaluation

OUTCOMES

RESOURCES/ENVIRONMENT

PRESENTATION/STRATEGIES

INTERACTION &

COMMUNICATION

Were they experienced/achieved/ developed?

They got a deep understanding of financial concepts.

They have gained an idea about multiliteracy and will adopt them in their future lives.

There was lacking financial concepts at the start of the session.

Why/Why not?

Teacher skills were quite efficient.

Students have gained a lot from this unit.

How do you know?

 Questionnaire and quick quiz results have proved their understanding. 90% of students got 80% marks that show the success of the session.

Were they appropriate/utilized?

Resources were updated and new and they added life to the subject plus they provided a broad view of notion as a social language.

Why/Why not?

The presentation was taken from credible resources so they added life to the session.

How do you know?

At the end of the session, students were in the state to seek more information about the subject. Their learning curve and curiosity level rose.

Were these appropriate?

Strategies were appropriate; they helped in getting an idea of student knowledge at the beginning of the session.

Why/Why not?

The feedback form gave them chance to express their ideas, suggestion, and feedback regarding the content, teaching styles, etc.

How do you know?

Feedback from samples presented the picture.

Was this appropriate?

The discussion provided the chance to speak freely and to share their ideas about financial concepts.

How do you know?

Students were satisfied at the end of the session. They realized the significance of multiliteracy and the session activities will help them in utilizing it in the future.

How is this evaluation going to impact future learning experiences for your pupils?

 It will help them in learning advance and practical knowledge about the financial market.

Learning to teach – specific teaching target for this lesson (identified on lesson plan)

Evaluation of specific teaching target

How will I adjust my teaching as a result of this lesson

 The session went really well but there were some lacking.

1)     More credible resources should be there.

2)     There should be some more real-world examples regarding the subject.

Specific teaching targets (should be written into next day’s lesson plan)

The lesson is based on financial concepts but it will help them in realizing the significance of multiliteracy, although financial concepts remain the same in all languages the session is designed in such a way that students belonging to different nations can easily get an understanding of financial concepts etc. Language development is really essential to develop in students (Halliday, 1978).

We have too many high-sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them.
Abigail Adams

How many languages are there in the world? How about 5 billion! Each of us talks, listens, and thinks in his/her own special language that has been shaped by our culture, experiences, profession, personality, mores, and attitudes. The chance of us meeting someone else who talks the exact same language is pretty remote.
Anonymous

As in this session, I will try my level best to incorporate different concepts and techniques in my next lectures to make understanding of language easy and flexible.

Teaching practices and strategies were chosen to keep in mind the importance of language as a social practice. Discussions, question-answer sessions helped in giving a chance to students to communicate on their own terms, share their ideas, thoughts; experiences with other students belonging to different nations. These practices helped students in getting exact and broad knowledge about markets, demand and supply curves, etc.