For your culmination of learning this quarter you will design a lesson plan and reflect on your planning and our readings this quarter.
Step 1: Using the above template and example from DBQ 6, select one Common Core Standard of your choice to design a lesson around.
Step 2: WRITE or SPEAK about your lesson design either in APA essay form (800-1,000 words), OR audio or video recording (6 to 8 minutes).
In this text or recording you should address:
how you will access all learners including students who are multilingual learners and/or students with disabilities
ways you will incorporate Funds of Knowledge and Culturally Responsive practices into your instruction
how you will align your educational philosophy and overarching goals with the tasks you are assigning within your lesson (e.g. if you value constructivism and how will your students explore and build knowledge for this task?)
Note: You are not submitting a role-play or script of teaching this lesson (although you are certainly welcome to incorporate elements of this) rather you are discussing why you designed the lesson the way you did and how it will be effective.
For Lesson Design:
If you are teaching an ELA lesson and need an anchor text the following online ebook websites have good free content by grade-level: https://www.readworks.org/ (Links to an external site.) ; https://www.getepic.com/learn/category/educators/ (Links to an external site.) ; https://newsela.com/ (Links to an external site.) (to create free accounts select that you are an educator, and use your email).
If you are teaching a math lesson I would recommend Engage New York (Links to an external site.) which gives assignments and math tasks aligned by grade-level and Common Core Standard (the website can be a bit dense to navigate, so leave time to do this). Also Khan Academy (Links to an external site.) has useful problem sets- more geared toward online learning.
You are also welcome to use other websites or sources for lesson task ideas in other subjects, or of course, brainstorm your own. If you are interested in teaching Pre-K please select an accessible Kindergarten standard and adapt it to the Pre-K setting.
