Understanding Educational Terminology

Understanding Educational Terminology Educational Terminology Lesson Plans Classroom and Student Factors Brief Explanation Lesson plans includes objectives which is the goal of the lesson, and standards that are state specific. They are used in order to have a guide to teach lessons. Student factors is recognizing that every Purpose in the Planning, Instruction and Assessment Process Lesson plans provide a detailed outline in how and why we plan to teach certain material, this allows us to create an agenda on a need base and can be flexible with how long we take with certain material. This is going to relate closely with the planning process, because it is planning the agenda behind a topic you will be teaching. Each lesson plan will have five main components materials, agenda, differentiation, standards and measurable objectives. Classroom/Student factors is a crucial part to integrate into our teaching because we have to acknowledge every student is different and they all Content Learning Standards Learning Objective Curriculum student is different and comes from a different background. Classroom factors relates to the layout and design of your classroom and how that effects the productivity and behavior of the students. Content learning standards describes the specific content that is required to be taught within the school year. Each state has different standards because they are made for each individual state. Objective is the goal a teacher expects to obtain from a topic, lesson or unit. These are often interim academic goals for students. Curriculum is the material we use to teach standards. This can vary throughout teachers cause it’s personal and based on a need or preference for you learn differently therefore you should be evolving your teaching based on what works best for your students, because although one way may be easier for one class it may be more difficult for another. Classroom factors can impact the productivity and the effectiveness of your lessons because the layout of your classrooms and the resource posted on the walls can change the entire lesson or activity for the students. Content standards are the base of every educator’s planning of lessons because they are made around the standards that are required to be taught. Many teachers will often chunk their standards in order to decrease the amount of time spent teaching each individual standard, and this also make curriculum more impactful. Objectives are an important part of the planning and instruction process because they set a foundation for teachers to work up too. The lessons they teach are working students up to reach the final goal of what the objective states. Curriculum is an important factor in instruction, it tremendously impacts the way we teach our students. The curriculum can change the entirety of a lesson and can make or break if the students understand the material they are learning or not. Depending on what teaching methods work best for your students you can adapt the curriculum to what will make the most sense for your students and their needs. Alignment Scaffolding Academic Language Anticipatory Set Prior Knowledge Multiple Means of students. Alignment is the relation of the curriculum to the objective and standards and how that relates to the final assessment. All of these aligning with one another is crucial for student success in the content. Scaffolding is when you start with basic content and increase difficulty, you are building on to the content making it more complex. The words we use in order to explain topics in ways easier for students to understand. Anticipatory sets are assignments or activities that help draw the students into the lesson. Prior knowledge is anything that the students know prior to a lesson. Multiple means of representation Alignment correlates with the planning, lesson and assessment process because all the plan, lessons and assessments must align in order for them to be affective. If you are teaching something different than what they will be assessed on, then your lesson is pointless for the students. Scaffolding is extremely helpful in lessons because it allows for students to better build their knowledge. This technic allows for you to progressively build onto a lesson and make it increasingly more complex but introducing it in sections makes it less complicated for the students. Academic language is an important part of planning because the language we use to describe a lesson may completely change the students understanding. If you use vocabulary that the students may not understand it can be difficult for them to learn the lesson. Anticipatory sets are a part of every lesson and can change the student’s emotions towards the instruction. If the students do a fun activity that relates to the lesson, they will be more interested in learning about the lesson. Understanding what students know about the lesson prior to starting the lesson will help the teacher to better evaluate what material will be best to teach knowing what they already know. If the students already have prior knowledge of a lesson before you teach you know you can spend less time and focus on more challenging topics. Multiple means of representation are a crucial part of the planning and instruction process, its important to consider that all students are different Representation Multiple Means of Engagement Multiple Means of Expression Instructional Strategies Extension Activity acknowledges that all the students retain information differently and explaining lessons from a different point may be easier for some students to understand. Multiple means of engagement are different techniques to get students engaged in the curriculum whether it be an assignment or activity. Multiple means of expression are different activities that give every student a chance to understand the lesson. Instructional strategies are different techniques that teachers use to teach a lesson. Extension activities are additional activities added to a lesson based upon the students needs. If students are struggling with a topic, you may add an extension and process information differently. If you don’t consider that your students may need to be taught the lesson from a different perspective in order to better understand the material. Multiple means of engagement is important for instruction because having a variety of activities keeps students engaged in the material and intrigued in learning the lesson. Students staying engaged in the lesson will provide them with maximum information need to succeed in the topic. Multiple means of expression makes instruction more diverse and differentiates it for students. This helps for students to see things differently than just one proper way, rather they can choose a preferred method. Instructional strategies are an important part of the instruction process because having different learning techniques creates a variety for students when learning a specific topic. Extension activities are an important part of instruction and assessment because they can provide students with the extra practice they might need prior to assessment. If students are struggling with a topic an extension activity provides more practice for them to help gain knowledge and understanding before any assessments. Guided Practice Independent Practice Closure Formal Assessment Informal Assessment Pre-assessment activity. Practice for students that is clear and helps them to develop the needed skills for a topic. Practicing a topic without outside assist, they are working independently on something that relates to the topic. Closure is the final assignment or activity of a lesson. Formal assessment is collecting something from students that provides data on how students are understanding the content, it is objective. An informal assessment is a feeling of how the teacher feels the students are learning, it is subjective. Can be seen through body language, facial expressions, and tension span. Pre-assessment is to assess what they already know Guided practice is crucial for the instruction process because it begins to test students on what they know and what they may need more practice with before being able to execute it independently. Independent practice is also crucial for the instruction process because it give the students an opportunity to test what they may or may not understand from the lesson. Independent practice can be extremely easier for some student and extremely difficult foe others. Closure assignments give students the final opportunity to reflect of the lesson and how they understood all of the material, which could assess the student’s obtained knowledge from the instruction. Formal assessments are an important part of assessing students and the information retained from the lesson that was taught. In some cases, formal assessments can be more difficult for students because they are more stressful for students compared to informal assessments that often go undetected. Informal assessments are extremely helpful for teachers’ instruction and assessment plans, informal is less time consuming than formal assessment. It can be help when you are on a short deadline, but it may not always be 100% accurate since it is subjective and can a be incorrect assumption. Pre-assessments are crucial for teachers planning and instruction because it allows them to assess student knowledge prior to starting the lesson. prior to learning anything from the lesson. Formative Assessment Summative Assessment Scoring Rubric Cross-curricular Formative assessment is straight forward content, done while still teaching the lesson, it checks to make sure we are moving along throughout the lesson. Summative assessment is representation based, done after the lesson, and is associated with grade. A scoring rubric is a guide for grading assignments, should include a description of what each grade is composed of and how that applies to the assignment. Cross-curricular is merging different standards that intertwine together and teaching them within one lesson. This can be extremely helpful when you are building on topics to ensure students already know the basic information and that it doesn’t need to be reviewed. Formative assessments are important for the instruction of a lesson. They allow for teachers to check in on students and how they are doing with the topic. This assessment helps teachers to fins what they may need to spend more time on based on how the students perform. Summative assessment tests the students on how much they understand the material that was taught. If the lesson aligns with the assessment, it projects how well the students can perform within this topic. Scoring rubrics are an important part of the assessment process, especially when we do verbal assessments. Rubrics allow for a solid foundation of consistent grading so that every student is graded under the same standard and you have the same expectation for everyone. Cross-curricular is crucial for planning because it gives teachers more flexibility with merging standards and topics in order to decrease the amount of time spent teaching different standards. When you merge similar standards within one set of curriculum it can make it easier for students to comprehend the different standards together instead of individually. Examining Different Lesson Plan Formats Both the COE Lesson Plan template and the COE Alternative Lesson Plan template are filled with a tremendous amount of information that includes the core lesson plan components. These five components are standards, materials, agenda, measurable objectives and differentiation. The COE lesson plan template includes all of these core components but uses different verbiage making it less obvious and more complex, whereas the alternative lesson plan has more obvious subcategories making it easier to differentiate. In the beginning of both templates, they include teacher candidate, grade level, date, unit, instructional plan title, lesson summary, factors/grouping, and standards to start off the lesson plan. In the COE Lesson Plan the agenda is explained under the second section with instructional planning, also in this lesson plan it focuses heavily on the multiple means of representation, engagement and expression all in different sections. The Alternative COE Lesson Plan provides a section on the first page of the lesson plan for an agenda, with simplistic vocabulary and provides space for the common area of differentiation with is where all the multiple means can be categorized. For these lesson plans they are both organized in a chronological order and are separated into sections in order to make the material easier to access. As for formatting the COE Lesson plan is more complex in detail but simplistic in design with spread out information. The alternative COE lesson plan ism more compact and straightforward, the information is more side-by-side with one another rather than a continuous list.