Education 337

After hearing everyone's mini presentations about how their unit plan went. I'm glad to hear that I wasn't the only one that difficulties with it. A lot of my classmates had problems with time management and organizing the lessons in the correct order. I would have never thought that thinking maps could be used as instructional strategies. The one person that stood out to me was Dakota when he mention not knowing the time of day the lesson being taught and how that would effect the his unit and the activities. I really like the power point that was used. I thought it was well put together power point. I really liked what Debbie said about starting early because the amount of time it takes. I have to say I spent weeks on it and I'm not completely happy with it. Everyone made some great point to tonight. 

Considering  Teach Like a Champion,  what strategies are you likely to use in your own classroom and lessons? Teach Like a Champion has a lot of great strategies that is hard for me to choose from.  I really like Strategy 1, No Opt Out means that teachers don't accepts I don't know, but tells their student to give it a shot no matter if they don't know their answer. I like strategy 5, no Apologies because I feel a teacher shouldn't apologies for what they are teaching rather make the lesson more fun and engaging. I also like strategy 8, Post it because I think students should know the objectives of the day this can be done by just posting it to the board. These are some of my favorites but I like most of the strategies. I hoping that I could use almost all of them in my classroom and lesson. These just open up the possibilities for my classroom. 

This week we finished our third week of graded lesson plans Overall the group of 2 besides me  did great, I loved how engaging and fun theses lesson are. Abagail H was the first to go and her lesson was over the westward expansion. I really loved her objective and I thought it was a well written. I also love the fact game and I felt that it was a great way to keep the student engaged. Another thing I loved about your lesson was the journey journals and the questions you asked. Overall it was great lesson that I had hard time picking my favorite thing. Great Job! The second person that went was me and I did mine over K-math. Which I was nervous and when this happens I talk like 100 miles an hour. I really tried to remember to slow so I hope I did. This is my favorite lesson for the unit. The reason why I picked this standard was for a reason. I remember my first observation for 100. Many of her students still didn't know how to count and they were in fourth grade which made me s...