UMF Unit-Wide Lesson Plan Template

Name: Cassandra Jerome Program: SMED Course: Student Teaching SP22

Lesson Topic / Title:

Summative assignments: Summative Test Prep/Summative Essay Workshop

Lesson Date: 03/30/2022 Lesson Length: 75 Grade/Age: 10th Grade

minutes

Learning Objectives & Content Standard Alignment - Selects, creates, and sequences learning
experiences and performance tasks that support learners in reaching rigorous curriculum goals
based on content standards.

Learning Objective(s) Instructional Decisions / Reasoning

● Students will become ● Staying true to both the

fully prepared for both curriculum guide for
summative assignments Revolutionary Ideas and the
due next class by: school handbook, it is necessary
spending half of the class for this sophomore class to have
time taking the as much in class time to prepare
pre-assessment multiple for these summative assignments
choice quiz on Quizalize as possible. One objective is to
to study for the simply provide time for students
summative on Friday to use Quizalize and study for the
● Students will also summative quiz, while the other
participate in a workshop is to allow time for students to
period during class where develop their bulleted lists for the
they will work on essays into full paragraphs that
examples for their essay represent different historical and
and get one on one current examples. Using a timer
feedback from me as the for each workshop section,
instructor providing a short break and
reshowing the end of quarter

Content Standard(s)
Grade 9 - Diploma: History Students draw on
concepts and processes using primary and
secondary sources from history to develop
historical perspective and understand issues of
continuity and change in the community, Maine,
the United States, and world.
Indicator: (D3) Tracing and critiquing the roots
and evolution of democratic ideals and
constitutional principles in the history of the
world using historical sources.
schedule all encourages students
to use this time wisely. It also
allows me to deliver on on one
feedback, which has been needed
as more students have questions
about making their essay more
successful.
Instructional Decisions / Reasoning
This section is part of the current curriculum in
the course
● I chose this content standard because as
we are at the end of a unit and focusing
on finishing up summative assignments,
the focus of the unit has been looking at
the United States during a period of
growing pains, 1800-1850s. We have
been examining different political groups
formed, presidents, ideals formed,
expansion, slavery and native peoples.
The essay, which is being reviewed
during this lesson, is an opportunity for
students to answer the question: How
might the people of a nation look at
freedom differently? Using the various
people and events we have talked about,
they will write about their understanding
of how people during this time period
viewed freedom differently. “Tracing and
critiquing the roots and evolution of
democratic ideas”
Assessment - Uses assessment flexibly to expand and deepen understanding of learner performance
and determines best supports for continued learner growth.

Assessment Instructional Decisions / Reasoning

● Quizalize - Pre-Assessment/Study tool
for students
● One on one check ins for progress being
made on the summative essays
● Quizalize is a technology tool I
discovered that delivers questions
to students one at a time in a
game-like manner, similar to
Kahoot. Every time a student
does the quiz on Quizalize, their
results are sent directly to my
email. This is both helpful for
students to study the content that
will be on the summative quiz,
but also helps me gauge which
students need help/what content
they need help with.
● One on one checks in will help
every student get individual
feedback from me as the
instructor to see if both their
examples and ideas are
convincing enough, and that it is
formatted correctly.

Instructional Materials and Resources - Stays current in content knowledge and expands expertise
in reviewing instructional materials from the perspectives of both the discipline and individual
learner needs.

Materials, Resources, and / or Technology Instructional Decisions / Reasoning

● Students will use their laptops provided
by the school
● Teacher laptop to use for google slide
presentations/graphic organizer displays
● Desks
● Chairs
● Laptops will be used for students to work
on summative essay during workshop
time/do the pre-quiz
● Dry erase board & markers will be used
for adding new student names for current
event
 ● Printer/Printer Paper
● Pens/Pencil
● BENQ Projector
● White board/white board markers
● Quizalize
● Google Slides
Instructional Methods: Selects, creates, and sequences learning experiences and performance tasks
by using a variety of instructional approaches, strategies, and technologies that make learning
accessible to all learners and support learners in reaching rigorous curriculum goals.
Teaching and Learning Sequence
● Attendance and How are you? - 5 min
● Current Events W/ Ms. Jerome
(Ukraine/Russia update) - 10 min
● Google Slide - Outline for the
day/review of end of quarter schedule for
the class - 5 min
● Workshop - Work on Quizalize 25 min
● Break - 5 min
● Workshop Work on essay - 25 min
● Desks and chairs, where students will be
seated during the duration of the lesson
● Printer, paper and ink to provide hard
copies of the graphic organizer for the
review portion of the lesson
● Google Slides presentation to introduce
the objectives for the class/any activities
within the lesson
● BENQ projector will be used for both
students to present their current event to
the class and for me to have a visual
throughout the review - objectives for the
class period, 2 week end of quarter
schedule, google classroom etc.
● Quizalize will be used as test
practice/pre-assessment
● Google slides used as visual indicators
for both me and the students to have
through the lesson
● Pens/Pencils used by students to take
notes during the interactive google slide
presentation
Instructional Decisions / Reasoning
● Taking attendance and looking each
student in the eye while calling their
name is a reminder for the student you
are there for them. Saying hello, how are
you doing, etc. furthers that connection
between student and instructors and
shows you care.
● Current events with Ms. Jerome is
something I started so students would
explore different avenues of gaining
information around them. One student
 will share a current event at the start of
each class on the BENQ projector. The
current event could be a news article,
video, tik tok, podcast etc. that relates to
a current event going on in the world.
This also allows time for students to talk
in front of their peers and share their
interests. This class we talked a lot about
recent events with Russia and Ukraine,
including how propaganda is a tool of
war as well.
● Google slide/visual schedule for end of
the quarter gives students a guide to look
at while I explain plan for the last week
of the quarter.
● Workshop time for Quizalize the class
before the final summative multiple
choice quiz will ensure each student is
practicing at least a few times before
April 1st. Having time to complete this
in class also allows students to compare
scores, or study together.
● Workshop time for the essay is very
important as well. This is due by the end
of class April 1st. As students transition
from working on Quizalize to their essay
on google classroom, I can give every
student one on one feedback on their
progress. At this point, students have
bullet points, introductions and main
paragraphs started.
 Meeting students’ needs (differentiation,
extensions, modifications, accommodations)
● Student with ADHD will have extended
time in class to work on summative
assignments/benefit from the visuals in
the google slides that is presented on the
BEN Q
● Materials will be uploaded on google
classroom and given out as hard copies
as well
● Assigned break during class
Field Courses Only – Post lesson
Instructional Decisions / Reasoning
● Listening for long periods of time can be
a challenge for this student, it’s my job
as an instructor to make the information
as interesting and easy to process as
possible. I do this by always inserting
visuals and large, easy to read text in my
interactive slideshows.
● Materials available on google classroom
and hard copy allow for students to use a
preferred medium of note taking. All
content uploaded to google classroom as
well allows for students to refer back to
readings, slide shows, or any other
material at any time.
● An assigned break during class allows
for students to have a “treat” to work
towards, and have better focus during
instructional periods of time. It can reset
a class for a new activity and helps
students who have a hard time focusing
for long periods of time.
Reflection
This lesson was extremely helpful in terms of gauging where students are at with completing
quarter 3. Motivating students by going over the short calendar schedule, setting timers during
the workshop time and providing a break all amounted to a successful use of time. Students
were engaging with Quizalize, and then their essays towards the end of class. If I were to do this
lesson again, which I am providing workshop time after students complete the summative
multiple choice quiz next class, I would make the time for working on essays a bit longer.

Teaching Standards and Rationale

COMMON CORE STANDARDS:
Standard 1:Learner Development: The teacher understands how students learn and
develop, recognizing that patterns of learning and development vary individually within
and across the cognitive, linguistic, social, emotional, and physical areas, and designs and
implements developmentally appropriate and challenging learning experiences.
1(a) Regularly assesses individual and group performance in order to design and modify
instruction to meet learners’ needs in each area of development (cognitive, linguistic,
social, emotional, and physical) and scaffolds the next level of development.
Rationale: This lesson shows an importance towards learner development because I
implemented time into the students curriculum to work with technology, Quizalize, that
gives me feedback on success of content. As scores are sent immediately to me, I can
make choices on how time needs to be spent for students during this workshop. For
example, many of the students were receiving 100% on their Quizalize pre-assessment. I
can inform those students to begin working on their essays if that felt like a better use of
time, and for many of them, that was. Being able to use tools such as Quizalize to help
gauge how students are learning is a sign of a teacher who values learner development
and makes changes according to those developments.
Standard 3: Learning Environments The teacher works with learners to create
environments that support individual and collaborative learning, encouraging positive
social interaction, active engagement in learning, and self motivation.
3 (b) Develops learning experiences that engage learners in collaborative and self-directed
learning and that extend learner interaction with ideas and people locally and globally.
Rationale: This lesson reflects a positive learning environment for the students by the
participation of current events with Ms. Jerome. As each student presents to the class an
event they found by self-directed research, they are creating a space where both their
peers and I can gain insight on their interests and local and global issues as well. Not only
are students learning from their peers new content from the news, social media and more,
they are also learning how to have respect for the differences in political stances each
other might have. Students also want to do well in front of their peers, so they place
importance on this assignment even though it is quick.