Urban Teaching Apprenticeship Program

Unit 0 Lesson Plan 3

GOALS

What is the goal(s) of the particular lesson or activity that you are planning for this
exercise? What do you want your students to understand, know, and/or be able to
do? What are the enduring understandings that you’d like them to leave with?

Goal-

Students will view each other as important contributors to the classroom culture.

Enduring Understanding- Teams are vital and being able to work as a group is a life
skill that has to be developed and practiced.

What is a team? What classifies a team? How big or small is a team? Do you
consider Saul a team? Our Classroom? How can you succeed within a class lab team
setting? How do you support members constructively?

EVIDENCE

How will you know if your students have achieved the goal(s) that you listed?
The depth of sharing during reflection will show me what their expectations for
class-wide work are.
 LEARNING PLAN- Details Class Team FOCUS

Time Teacher Actions Details+ Questions

10 min Warm-up
Teacher Lu U- Pros and cons
Dry Erase of group work
Pocket
Dry erase note pockets jot Why and how are teams effective? What are
down thoughts for two the benefits and what are the drawbacks?
minutes on the prompts.
Share out 8 minutes

20 min Instruction-
IMPORTANCE OF TEAMS
Note Cards Who and what is involved in a successful
Stickers 2 ROTATIONS OF GoGoMo mural creation? Think about our brainstorm
2 minutes for thinking about teams
5 minutes of discussion
How will we value the diversity of ourselves
and others and why its important in a
classroom/lab setting?

35 min Project and Lab

Mural making-

15 min Reflection-
Rubric- Class

The aim of Unit 0 is the construction of a specific relational identity within a classroom. This
identity upholds the norms of class culture and supports all individuals to succeed. Having
students consider the purpose and methods of large and small group work prime their
relational thoughts. This lesson uses several different sized groups for different reasons, but
that flow from one type of group to another. The interactions are intentionally brief and
random-ish.