IPT 287 Slideshow

Alesha Technology Integration

View more presentations from Aleshaabe.

My technology lesson

I plan to teach my lesson that has technology this thursday and it will be a science lesson on plants. I will be teaching the students how plants change through each of the four seasons. I will be using a powerpoint to show pictures of how specific plants change in each of the four seasons. I will begin the lesson reminding them of the life cycle of a plant and then reading a story about a seed and how it changes in each season starting with spring. On the board we will make a list of things plants do in each season. For example in spring people start planting gardens and flowers. After we talk about what happens in each season I will show a powerpoint show of how plants like a rose or an apple tree look in each season. We will talk about what characteristics are happening and what we see. I think actually looking at pictures will help the children understand what is happening better and hopefully they will remember it better.

IPT 301 Third Reflection

The lesson I observed was an interactive writing lesson. The lesson objective was for the students as a class to come up with a topic and sentence to write. It had to be something they all experienced together. Her strategy for teaching it was to do a guided learning lesson. It was supposed to be a review of what they had learned all year about writing sentences. She didn’t give them the topic to write on, but let them discuss among themselves what they would like to write on. As a class they decided they should pick three or four topics and then vote on which one to teach. During this part she simply asked questions to help get them thinking and would stand by students who were following the rule of five and contributing to the discussion. She was running a democratic classroom where she let the students be involved in their learning and actively participate in the lesson.

Once the students had picked a topic and decided on a sentence she stepped in to call on students to come up and write a word in the sentence. She helps the students remember the sentence they decided on, but won’t tell them what word they are supposed to write. She didn’t remind the first student that he should write the date. The student simply went up and did it first. Once the entire sentence was written she asked the students if it was all correct or did things need to be fixed. She once again didn’t tell them what needed to be fixed, but let them first say what they saw needed to be fixed, and let them come up a fix it. If they missed something then she would ask questions that guided them to it. After the sentence was correctly written students read the sentence out loud together.

All most all of the students were actively engaged in the lesson. The few who weren’t started participating would start participating when Mrs. McTeer came and stood by them, or called on them to come write a word. They seemed to enjoy coming up with the sentence and all followed the rule of five and raised their hands to speak. They had a ball to toss to the student speaking and only the student holding the ball could speak. Everyone followed this rule, although some impatiently waved their arms in the air for the student speaking to toss them the ball.

Principles of learning were effectively administered. Mrs. McTeer stated the lesson objective to the students before they began on the lesson. All students followed the behavior expectations that were set forth at the beginning of the lesson. She knew they would learn better by being able to participate so she planned her lesson around letting as many of them participate as possible. Finally she guided them through the lesson without them really even knowing it. Everything she wanted done in this lesson was accomplished.

Technology Enhanced Lesson Idea

One lesson I am going to technology enhance is I'm going to do present a power point with pictures of how plants change through the seasons. I'm using this technology because there is a laptop computer in the classroom I can use as well as projector for the second grade. This way students could see through real pictures how plants change through the seasons.

Classroom Technology Inventory

While doing the classroom technology inventory I discovered there isn't a lot of technology available in the classroom to the students or the teacher.  In the classroom there is only one computer and it is only for the teacher to use.  Students only get to use computers 1/3 of the year when they have computer class for their speciality.  Right now my class is in computers so they get to use computers every day for half an hour.  

Inside the classroom the only technology the teacher and students can use is an overhead projector, a tv, a cd player, and a digital camera.  Mrs. McTeer told me that if you want to use any other technologies you usually have to go to the district office to rent them out.  The computer lab does have portable dvd burners and I scanner, but nothing else that can be taken out of there.  It is  hard to get time to use the computer lab, outside of the classes computer class, because all other classes in the school also have scheduled time each day for computers.