All Part of the Journey

Wow, it's the sixth week already! We focused on hooks and closures today, which is good because you need to get the students attention and get them ready to focu on what the lesson is going to be about, and you need to have a quick time of pulling in all the information in a summary so they're more likely to retain it and then letting them know a transition is coming up. There were some really good ideas.  I have some favorite hooks and closures: Hooks: I had this on Powerpoint (the pangolin was supposed to be inside the burst. LOL) and it had sound and everything, but it just teaches me that I need to make sure that what I create will work on what it will be presented on.  And I was going to use it to introduce the animal, its habitat,  and the fact that its home was being destroyed (deforestation). This gets their attention because so many kids are into Pokemons, and I'm sure most of them don't realize Pokemon are based off of real crea...

Practicing choosing strategies and coming up with depth of knowledge questions on the fly was good exercise for my brain. We had to work as a team to get all of it done within 15 minutes. I hope to some day be able to be that quick on my own. Right now, unfortunately, it's been taking me a very...long...time to finish just one. What really helped today was using a resource Melissa mentioned from http://www.in2edu.com/resources/thinking_resources/Blooms-Question-Charts.pdf It makes coming up with the questions so much simpler. So now here's a (long) lesson plan (I really need to learn to say things short and sweet): " T :" means "The teacher says" " NT :" means it is not something the teacher is saying. It is instruction, procedures, or something the students may say. This way I don't have to use color differences to help decipher. Keiza Taylor 3/27/17 EDUC 338 Lesson Plan 4 1. Unit/Lesson Title: Time and Money Unit/Lesson: Shopping Time (co...

Learning about and using group mind mapping, Request, DRAs, and DR-TAs was interesting.  They each have a different way of making students focus in on what is important, guiding their reading, so that their minds are not cluttered with useless information but they still grow in comprehension and are able to organize the information they already have and later receive. Though I did not choose to use any of those in this week's lesson plans, I did begin using an app called MINDLY that helps you construct mind maps. So I'm using it now for personal uses, and later on, I will probably use it, or something similar, for educational uses in the classroom. It's so simple to use. (What did I use it for, you may ask? I was doing a self-study on idols and was linking how what I feel or do reveals what I really think is most important, that I shouldn't because it gets in the way of my relationships with God and the people around me. Like fear of rejection or an unhealthy view of ...

Coming up with a random lesson plan can be a little frustrating sometimes. I tend to overthink things and then feel bogged down with standards. But when I keep things simple, it usually works out fine.  For my first lesson plan for this class, I decided to do something fun: Onomatopeias! (I think it took me at least seven slow seconds just to spell that as I typed.) Anyway, choosing a fun topic (as in, fun for students, and therefore, fun for me) makes me already feel better about creating this lesson plan.  FYI... Onomatopeia: " the   formation   of   a   word,   as   cuckoo,   meow,   honk,   or   boom,   by imitation  of   a   sound   made   by   or   associated   with   its   referent" ( from http://www.dictionary.com/browse/onomatopoeia) I would begin with a few short read-aloud poems. This would be a positive way to introduce how onomatopeias are used in poems...

Keiza, patient, silly, bald, respectful,  wife of Akinyela, and mother of Aurelius, Kylon, and Aley, lover of God, journeys, and growth, who feels pensive, grateful, determined, who fears staleness, rejection, vanity, who earned a culinary arts degree, who would like to see happy neighbors, no hypocrisy, and real love among others resident of Saint Louis County, Taylor