Last week in my Education 203 class we were given the opportunity to create a lesson plan with another peer from our class. This was a co-teach lesson and it was my first time being able to create and present something like this. I was paired with one of my classmates and together we were able to choose the grade, subject, and lesson plan. The subject we decided to do was a Physical Education lesson. The lesson teaches the students in grades K-2 about their body parts and what they are used for. For our lesson, we decided to focus on the external body parts so that we would not overwhelm the class with an excessive number of vocabulary words they were not familiar. The body parts we decided would benefit our classmates were, nose, eyes, ears, arms, hands, fingers, legs, feet, and toes.
When we were trying to figure out what type of lesson we wanted to teach together we had a fun time looking up ideas on what would be best to teach together. We had to remember that what we were teaching to our students had to be something “they had no prior knowledge on”. This is because when we teach a class of our own one day, the students in the class will not know everything about what we are teaching. This topic we had to choose was going to have to be something we were pretending to teach them for the first time. This was tricky because we could not ask students questions they were supposed to know because they had to pretend they did not know anything. So, when we were sharing facts about the body parts, the students had to be taught everything starting with the basics.
Between my partner and I, we worked on creating a lesson plan that had the following, topic, subject, grade level, time, Illinois learning standard being addressed, academic language, objective, planned support, formative assessment, technology used, instructional plan (Engage, connect, launch), sequence of learning activities, and a closure. This definitely seemed like a lot of planning out, which it was, but we had a fun time trying to come up with stuff together that was going to be enjoyable for students, as well as informative and information filled. While trying to figure out what exactly we were going to do, we tried to make sure we could have an activity the students were going to be able to get up and move around, so they can better understand what is being taught. A very important thing I felt we did was give the students a lot of hands on and labeling of the body parts. It is important the students see their body parts on themselves as well as other people, not just on a picture.
Once we completed the lesson plan it was time to create a PowerPoint that was going to be interactive and easy to follow along with for the students. We decided to add a couple of Peardeck slides that the students would be able to draw or type on. The reason for this being, we believe students learn best from having hands on experiences and the best way to do that in the classroom is to implement it as much as possible for the students. We also had an interactive activity where the students in our class had to pair up with a peer and label the outer body parts of their peer with sticky notes This was definitely a great way to see which of the students was understanding and applying their vocabulary to real life, and which ones were going to need more practice. I was able to take a lot of good feedback away from this experience and I am very fortunate I was given the opportunity to practice the skill of co-teaching so early on in my educational career.
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