Instruction

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 * This is a photograph of the objectives that I post on the board in student friendly verbaige daily. || When I first started posting written objectives, they were not as student friendly as they are now. They started out with verbiage "SW understand how to....." After viewing another teacher's written objectives I realized that the students probably have no idea what SW means, so I changed it to "We will". I also made it a point everyday to go over the daily objectives verbally and address any schedule changes or questions that the students had about the day. When I first took over teaching, I kept forgetting to verbally state the objectives, so I assigned a student to remind me after the morning warm-up. Boy, do students LOVE to remind the teacher to do something! It only took me a few days to stop forgetting to go over the daily agenda/objectives.  ||
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 * Every day when the class comes in from lunch we practice one or two problems in the form of CRT test problems that reinforce a skill that has previously been taught. This is a video of a student explaining how he got his answer to one of these problems. || I noticed that many times the students are able to come up with the correct answer, but are not able to explain how they got there or why there answer is right. It has become an important part of my teaching practice to ensure that my students can provide a verbal explanation along with their answers.  ||

=Component 3c: Engaging Students in Learning =


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 * This is the lesson plan for the first lesson that I taught to a whole class. The class consisted of my peers which made it far more nerve wracking than if I was teaching it to students. || As you can see in the lesson plan, we were very prepared. We timed out the sequence of the lesson and we paced it well according to our estimation. The class was very engaged in the activity, which we expected because of the nature of how hands-on it was. We were both pleased with our instruction that day, and we contribute our success to good planning, organization, and authentic instruction. ||

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