You are to develop a lesson plan that teaches an individual student an alternate way of learning a concept or skill. The activity you create can be as simple as teaching a kindergarten student that when counting things, the number you stop at is the number of items in the group, to teaching a middle school student how to add two negative integers. Remember that the route to the answer is as important as the answer itself.
Your assignment must include the following:
Title. The title must provide an indication of the target concept or skill. Make it catchy.
Skill. Describe the target skill and the approximate grade level at which it would be taught. Briefly explain the process you will use to teach the skill. In addition, identify the pre-requisite skills.
Objective. Write the lesson objective. Remember, it must be written in behavioural terms.
Materials. Make a list of the materials you will use down to the last pencil and eraser. Describe each of the manipulatives you will use and tell how you will use them; that is, explain how they will help the student understand that target skill. If you can, include photos or drawings of the manipulatives.
Lesson. Develop a lesson with the following qualities:
Three parts: introduction, body, and conclusion
Approaches the reason for learning the skill as a way to address a situation in the student’s life
Works on teaching an alternate approach
Creative
Steps which are sequenced in logical order
No gaps between steps
Clear attempt to connect manipulatives and/or pictures to symbols
Direct instruction. This means that the EA will actually teach the student the procedure, as opposed to simply practising it. For this particular assignment you must use the model – model-match – independent progression.(See the Assignment 2.1 tutorial.)
The assessment must involve the student working independently on a series of questions. The student behaviour used to observe and measure the student’s mastery of the skill must match that which is stated in the objective exactly.
