Lesson Plans from Student Teaching

Technology Lesson Plan: The technology lesson plan went well for the most part until the

students needed to get on their tablets to complete the independent practice activity that I had put

on their schoology for them to complete. The students enjoyed the google slides during direct

instruction and being able to come to the board and participate. The students also used their

white boards for some parts of the lesson which they always enjoy. The issue I had with the

students using their tablets for the independent practice activity was the schoology website was

not working on the student’s tablet on this day for the whole school. I just decided to take the

problems I had for the students to do on schoology and wrote them on the smartboard and let the

students come up and complete problems on the board. I assessed the students answer and gave

them a participation grade for the lesson depending on how well they did. Since remote learning

has been put in place a lot of teachers are still utilizing the schoology platform in the classroom

and sometimes if too many people are on the internet at once it can bog down the whole server,

or sometimes the schoology site will just be down for maintenance. I should have had a different

technology based backup plan for the independent practice activity, but I honestly didn’t think

the day that I would be teaching this lesson that something like that would happen, but now I

know to always be prepared for the worst. Overall, the lesson went well, and the students loved

the interactive learning. I also feel that the students are more tech savvy considering the amount

of remote learning they have had to do over the last year which helped the lesson run smoothly.
Reading Lesson Plan: This lesson plan went really well and even better than I had expected. I

had to break the lesson into two days because of the limited amount of time I get to spend with

first grade. I started the lesson by giving the students one word, storm. I told them to guess what

part of a storm I was demonstrating with the rain stick, picture flash, and strike of the drum. The

students loved this introduction to the lesson, and it got their brains engaged, focused, and ready

to learn. The students enjoyed reading the story, but they seemed to get a little talkative and

bored during the guided practice activity, so I let them get up and act out their responses from

their independent practice activity. Out of all the activities the students mostly enjoyed was the

wrap up of the lesson where they got to write a couple sentences about an experience they’ve had

in a storm and then share with the class. I let the students come to the front of the class and use

the class microphone to tell their story, which they always enjoy. I tell the students when

someone is holding the microphone they are in the spotlight and all eyes and ears are on them.

This gives the students a great feeling of purpose and they just beam with pride which can be so

rewarding. The students seemed to understand the concept of identifying characters, setting, and

major events in the story. For the remainder of the week, we would read short stories and I would

quiz the students on these key details.

Personal Choice Lesson Plan: In this lesson plan the students were learning how to add and

subtract using a model. The students were asked to participate in acting out word problems and

they did really well with this activity and enjoyed it. I like to utilize the role-playing strategy

because it gives students a real visual of how we can solve problems using more than just the

numbers they give us, we can use our resources or whatever we can find to help us. I taught this

lesson to a group of second, third, and fifth graders, but the guided practice activity was a little

difficult for the second grade students to understand, which makes me question the activity for a
first grade level. However, my second-grade students are intellectually still on a kindergarten or

first grade level, so general ed. first grade students may understand better but it was still a good

thing to realize that you need grade appropriate activities for different groups of students. The

students enjoyed the guided practice activity game, I just had to give more help to the group of

second graders. For the fifth-grade students this was a review but one that they needed as well as

the third graders. I ended up allowing my students to use the marble rain drops as manipulatives

for them to sue during the independent practice activity and the students performed well on the

assessment. Overall, the lesson went well and I enjoyed planning and teaching this lesson very

much.