For my capstone lessons I will be introducing the new unit on evolution. The lessons will be the first lessons of the unit and focus on orienting students while allowing them to start thinking with the mindset of this new unit. The objective I would like to focus on for…
Chapter 2: Part 1 - Making connections across lesson plans One objective from the lessons that I am planning is "I can describe how plants make food through photosynthesis and why this is important." One type of formative assessment that we will be doing is something called a…
Lessons from lessons. They all come together to help us grow in our ability to best serve our students and help them walk away with engaged, applied understanding of what we're trying to convey to them. Though it's not my capstone, all of my planning for…
The learning objective is the core of our lesson plan. We need to be very careful about creating it and then plan according to that objective. Here is the link to Zhou's Blog, which explains why it is crucial. https://learninginnovation.duke.edu/blog/2017/03/learning-objectives/ Back…
It's true: practice and time really do help. Every day I feel like I improve my lesson planning and teaching skills, and it's always enlightening to go back and see my previous work and compare it to the work I feel like I can do now.…
One of the objectives in my first lesson plan is “students will be able to describe the graph of a polynomial given as equation in factored form and interpret what the Constants and the x and y-intercept represent in the graph of the polynomial.” For this specific lesson, the formative…
Unit planning and building has been an intersting experience. There are many thought processes and requirements to work through to reach the vision you have in your head. My biggest takeaway from building a unit is that you really have to consider what is going to be happening in each…
After building my unit plan, I could see the deep thinking that we need to make our plan reasonable and meet the learning goals that we created it for. The planning unit may look just a general idea of what we need our students to learn in a few weeks…
My biggest takeaway from building the unit would be creating the learning targets because I want to think about creating learning targets that utilize different cognitive processes and language demands so that the students are engaged and doing a variety of learning. Yet at the same time, I am working…
One thing I really struggled with while building my unit plan is identifying the learning objectives and how each one helps students satisfy or meet the standard. I think some advise for future students going through unit planning would be to approach it using the backwards design. Focus on what…
