As some of you may or may not know, this is my first semester as an education major, so a lot of the stuff that I am learning in my classes is very new to me. For example, this week in my Production and Utilization of Technology class, we had an assignment where we had to make an objective and begin a lesson plan. It seemed as if everyone knew what they were doing, but I was very lost because I had never done anything like this before. After staying after class and talking to my professor, I began my lesson plan. She told me that I first had to come up with an objective. Next, I created the stem. The stem is something like, "the students will learn to..." After this, I needed a target performance. The target performance comes after the stem. It would be something like "compare and contrast the story to today's society." I then needed an assessment method and criterion for success. The assessment method would be for example, "by creating a slideshow using power point." Finally, the criterion for success would be, "by making clear distinctions between society and what happened in the story." Although I'm a little behind, I'm quickly learning all of tips to becoming a great teacher!
I had my first education class this past fall and was blindsided! Educational Measurements, Assessment, and Evaluation taught by Dr. Sindlinger is a phenomenal class taught by a wonderfully helpful professor. She makes everything understandable and I really learned useful information in that class. Lesson plans can be crazy, but if you get the opportunity to have to make an entire lesson plan as a final project, it would help immensely. Judging by the teacher's work load in week two, he or she will probably make that opportunity a reality.
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