PHASE 1

1. Assessing Prior Knowledge: If you were teaching this with the targeted grade level students

·       How would prior experience have been assessed

I would have the students answer questions for class discussion to see what they know about using a computer and how comfortable they are with using one. I would also have them type something up for me. That will show me where my students stand.

·       What would be the implications for instructional planning and assessment based on the activities you chose to do for assessing prior knowledge

The results from the finalized book would show me where my students stand and if they have grasped the concept. It will show me if the students understood what was going on and if they were interested in the lesson plan as a whole.

2. Plans Instruction: Discuss how your goals, objectives and outcomes are

·       Clearly stated

My objectives are clearly stated in my lesson plan. I have stated what I believe my students should be able to accomplish at the end of the lesson plan and the book they are going to create as a class. My goals are that they understand the importance of reading and grammar.

·       Appropriate for students

I believe that my lesson plan is appropriate for students. They are doing what students should be doing. The book they are creating as well will be appropriate for all types of learners and subject areas in the classroom and multicultural.

·       Align to state standards

The standards that I aligned with the lesson plan were from the Arizona State Standards.

3. Designing Instruction: Discuss how your instructional design

·       Is contextually and logically organized

To insure that my lesson plan is contextually and logically organized I used the NAU Lesson builder through task stream and using the Madeline Hunter lesson format.

·       Uses varied instructional methods that meet individual student needs and target higher order thinking skills

My lesson plan allows students to create their own page in a book. They are allowed to create it however they want as long as it meets what they are suppose to write about. They design and create it all on their own.

·       Integrates technology from a constructivist perspective

During my lesson plan students will be using computers and all the programs such as the Internet and word processing program to create their page in our classroom “Big Book Project.”

4. Planning Assessment: How will your assessment tools demonstrate?

·       The performance of linked goals and/or objectives

The students will all be graded on their individual page in the book and how they behaved each day. It is a special needs classroom.

·       Student engagement in higher order thinking

Students in my class will show me this with how they have all created their page for the book. I, as the teacher will be able to tell who worked on it very hard and tried and how did not.

·       Meeting individual student needs

I will look at their IEP goals and see if some of them have been met by looking back at their page and how well they worked throughout the whole process of making the book.