Preparing myself to create two lessons that combined require twelve, in depth lesson plans is a bit intimidating. I chose to make the process of lesson planning my PDP because this is something that consumes a lot of my time, and I need/want to find ways to reduce this planning time. As student teaching is right around the corner, I need to make myself aware of different resources/ materials that I can pull from to make lesson planning a more efficient process. For both of my units, I have selected standards that center around two main concepts and have attempted to visualize how I am going to teach these lessons. In my current courses, and as well as my previous ones, I have learned two important aspects of lesson planning are differentiation and integration. Keeping in mind all of the details and accommodations that come along with lesson planning, I struggle to know where to begin the process.
Taking the first step in lesson planning should be planning your lesson, inside out. One should start with the assessment piece and ask oneself what their students should know at the end of the lesson. However, I have attempted to start my lessons in this fashion and often struggle with just looking at the standard and being able to create an assessment piece from that standard. Unpacking standards do list out all of the material that the students are expected to know. I guess I find it challenging because I am having to teach a different style from the way I learned in school, and I do not particularly remember everything, or all of the content that I learned in elementary school. I know that teachers have access to textbooks and other school materials, but having to construct lesson plans on different subjects for assigned grade levels, along with being rusty on the content that is required to know to teach the lesson just has me stumped.
It is midway through the semester and my ultimate goal is to get completely comfortable and confident with the lesson planning process. I know it takes practice and time, but I would to have a concrete foundation for this skill by the end of this semester.
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