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Mardi Gras!. Year 2 Beginning Teacher Seminar February 18, 2010. Life in the trenches can be rough!. Share with a table partner:. Describe one of your successful lessons. 2. How did your planning and design contribute to the lesson’s success?.
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Mardi Gras! Year 2 Beginning Teacher Seminar February 18, 2010
Share with a table partner: • Describe one of your successful lessons. 2. How did your planning and design contribute to the lesson’s success?
Planning Instruction and Designing Learning Experiences for All Students • Drawing on and valuing students’ backgrounds, interests and developmental learning needs • Establishing and articulating goals for student learning • Developing and sequencing instructional activities and materials for student learning • Modifying instructional plans to adjust for student • needs • Designing short-term and long-term plans to foster student learning
Self-Assessment Read the continuum for Planning Instruction and highlight the phrases that describe you. You might have highlighted portions in various boxes.
Brainstorm Together What does an effective lesson look like? What should be included?
A Lesson Gone Wrong . . . Have you ever had a day like this?
Common Planning Problems • Forgetting about state and district standards • Rushing to cover material instead of teaching students • Failing to connect current learning to previous • learning • Failing to include activities to engage critical • thinking skills • Failing to pre-assess before starting new instruction • Neglecting to provide an opener and closure for • each lesson • Mistaking a list of activities for a lesson plan
Let’s do some planning! • Welcome and thank you to our facilitators! • Amy Baldwin • Gwen Bruey • Carol Ensey • Jeff Lee • Denny McCarthy • Emanuel McGladrey • Barb Narkaus
Let’s do some planning! • Our task: • Content groups are identified with • table tents. • Please move into content groups after instructions are finished. • Each facilitator will give more specific • instructions and be a great resource. • Plan a lesson (or more than one!).
Time . . . An unhurriedsense of time is in itself a form of wealth. Bonnie Friedman
Announcements • Look for the next Newsletter • soon! • Mentor Program: Questions about • Licensure • Feb 24th • March 4th • A Day with Michael Grinder, April 10th
Announcements • Change in Schedule • The next Seminar will be on • March 11th at LPDC • (behind the IHOP). This is a change.
Announcements • Your grade is determined by: • Attending seminars • Completing makeup work if absent • Going on learning labs • Coaching sessions with mentor • Data collection • Analyzing student work • Completing two surveys
Exit Card Simile – a figure of speech comparing two unlike things, often introduced with the words "like" or "as“. Example: Teaching is like completing a jigsaw puzzle because each piece is important .
Exit Card Your Turn: Lesson Planning is like because .