Ready, Set, Grob!

Lesson plans are really fun and hard to come up with. I enjoyed presenting my lesson plan, receiving the constructive criticism to help me better my lesson,  and listening to my fellow classmates creative lesson plans: Rebekah: I like that you included a clip for the students to watch. I am a visual learner and I am starting to see that most kiddos now a days with the progression of technology seem to be as well. Great lesson plan! Marley: I love your experiment mostly because I have seen it done before and I think it is super cool and partly because I know any kid would love to make smores, lol!! Very cool!! Karen: I love Musical Theater so anytime there's a chance to add music to a lesson I'm there, lol. I love your lesson! This is my lesson thoroughly enjoyed putting this together. Teacher:  Grob, April Class:  Reading / Writing (ELA) 4th grade Unit: Group Reading (book club reading; whole group reading) Lesson Title:  Character and Settin...

This post isn't a part of my assignments for class but thought it was pretty awesome to share. All credit goes to kid president!!!

I just want to give another shout out to my education class. Everyone has been doing awesome with their lesson plan presentations and I have been doing a not so good job posting my blogs on time on and I am sorry for that. I also want to shout out to some specific students from last weeks class who presented and I want to apologize if I missed anyone. Allison Haden, I liked your objective of retelling a story with pictures. I did that with the Kindergarten class that I subbed for today and we had so much fun doing it. They were super excited about drawing a picture and telling me what is happening in their pictures. Miranda Needy, I really like your currency song that you had in your plans, I honestly didn't know that there was a song for it although I probably should have guessed that there was considering there's songs for just about everything else. Scott Hills, I like that you had them to put together their own slides for the amendments when they research their inform...

Performance and Formative Assessment Performance assessment is an assessment given to a student for the student do in order to show the teacher that he/she knows how to perform the task given to them. Formative assessment is an assessment given to the student so that the teacher can check for understand of information that they have given to the student. My example of a performance assessment, if I understand this right, in relation to writing, would be me giving my 4th grade students a lesson on creative writing and words to use to grab a person's attention and words to use to get the readers imagination going on how a person looks, the setting of an event, and how the event takes place. I then give my students a writing prompt and ask them to either make up a story using the prompt, tell me about something that has happened to them, or tell me what they would have done differently or the same and why. The formative assessment would be while teaching the lesson, I ask...

I know that my post is late but I still want to do a shout out to my classmates that presented their lesson plans last Thursday. You all did an awesome job. I found things in my own lesson plans that need to be looked at again and done over because of listening to your presentations. It all seemed like way to much to do when we were initially given the assignment but with your presentations it took some of the anxiety off because listening to your presentations helped that much. Can't wait to here some more presentations tomorrow.😊😊✏✏📒📓📝📖 Both images are from google images

This past Thursday in class I learned about Robert Marzano and his 9 strategies that are in groups of 3. Setting objectives and providing feedback Reinforcing efforts and providing recognition Cooperative Learning Cues, questions, and advance organizers Nonlinguistic Representations Summarizing and note-taking Homework and practice Identifying similarities and differences Generating and testing hypotheses Marzano stated that his strategies help students gain a deeper understanding of the materials they are learning in real world context rather than studying just to get the right answer for a test. Also Marzano has his strategies grouped into 3 subcategories, the first category, Creating an environment for learning, consist of the first 3 points, the second category, Helping students develop understanding, consist of points 3-6, and the 3rd category, Extend and apply knowledge, consist of the points 7-9. I think these points are very good strategies and can be applied to a...

Thinking maps has been a tool that I remember using all throughout school from my kinder years til now, I just don't think that I ever knew that it was called thinking maps. When I first looked at the Madeline Hunter lesson plan and say the thinking maps section it freaked me out because I was thinking that I had never heard of it before, but then I was calmed after Thursday's class of seeing that thinking maps were maps that have been used before, I was familiar with them, and that they really are awesome. I think how it stuck with me the most of the years is when I've had to learn compare and contrast and when I had to summarize or retell a story. After doing more research both with my class and on my own it was just amazing to see just how many different ways and different things that thinking maps are used for. I am excited to work with such a cool tool in the future. So far I think the bubble map is my favorite and the sequencing maps are my favorite. They are simple ...

Yesterday in class I learned about the Madeline Hunter lesson design and it was pretty confusing in a sense to here without seeing an example of what the form would look like completed #visuallearners,right? Lol. I was still very excited to learn about this lesson plan because it brings on the excitement of being one step closer to finishing my degree to teach. I have no doubts that I will get this lesson plan and rock it to the best of my abilities when I finally understand all the moving pieces. I also feel like I’m over thinking this process because that’s what I do and that this is much simpler than what I’m thinking in my mind. I think the thing that will be the hardest for me will be the thinking maps, I’m pretty observant of the teacher language and I ever heard of thinking maps but I have heard of thinking caps. I also think that closure seems a little confusing but like I said before, I maybe just overthinking things. The easier parts for me will be the modeling and modificati...

Thursday in class I learned about the ABCD's of writing in writing lesson plans. From my understanding it's a way of writing a well thought out, very measurable lesson plan, the instructor knows what she/he wants for her/his students to learn, how to do it, and how much the students/pupil will retain and how many of those students will retain it as well as what behaviors are triggered from what students. I think this is a good outlook on how much teaching an instructor will get done and allows the instructor to really look and think about the lesson being taught. I think that C:Condition will be a challenge for me to understand but I think as time goes on and the more I do it the easier it'll be for me to understand. Below is my example of how I understand it using a chore for my oldest son around the house. Ex. Damien will be able to wash the dinner dishes with the dish scrubber, dish towel, and dish soap in no more than 1 hour before I get home from work by 5 pm with 85...

Excitement Ozzing From My Mind!! I am so excited to start this blogging thing. It's something I've never done before but have been interested in in the past but didn't know how to get started so I just let go of the idea. I am excited to be doing this now for my Teaching Techniques education class. What makes this even more exciting is that I know this class, past classes, and future classes will help me on my journey in becoming a classroom teacher as well as helping me with the current space I have decorated and furnished below that was assigned to me by my building principal to do small group LLI (Leveled Literacy Intervention). I'm excited to see how this class will help me better teach my groups this year and better prepare me for substituting throughout the school and for my future of teaching a classroom of more than 6 students. Hope you all are just as excited to read these blogs as I am to post them.