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…
It turns out that unit planning is, to me at least, kind of fun. I didn't really anticipate unit planning with any sort of excitement, but as an activity it allows you to ask bigger, more interesting questions about your curricular development and what it is that you…
For this assessment, the biggest takeaway for me was Big Ideas. I had always had issues with coming up with Big Ideas and objectives and I always ended up making them super long and boring but thanks to the discussions that we had in class I was able to understand…
One of the goals of my dream agriculture unit is that, whichever form students decide their final project will take on, they need to be able to use their new understanding and knowledge of food, diets, and types of agriculture to demonstrate how that has an impact in their lives…
Chapter 2: Part 1 - Making connections across lesson plans I want you to write a blog this week that adds to your thoughts (with a new objective, or expanding upon your last one) – Think of last week as a Rough Draft. Remember to Focus on: 1. Take the / an…
