Assignment Number Two - Upload a Lesson Plan

For my second assignment in my Standards of Effective Practice Class, I need to upload a unit plan that I have created and taught in class during student teaching. The lesson plan that I am going to post was actually the first lesson plan that I created for my student teaching portfolio. I have uploaded the lesson plan that I used and the S.N.R. I created in a Google Document Link:

Lesson Plan One: Analogy Practice for Unit Two Spelling/Vocab Test

Standard Narrative Reflection of Lesson Plan One

This lesson plan was on analogies and prepartion for Unit 2 Spelling/Vocab Worksheet, Practice Test and Final Test. Here at some of my objectives for this lesson:

•  Students will become familiar with the definition of analogy and terms associated with it (: means  is, :: means as).
• Students will be able to answer questions presented in the worksheet correctly.
• Students will be prepared for spelling test that requires completion of an analogy problem section.

The additional information that was needed for this lesson plan was a PowerPoint of Analogy Practice, Analogy Practice Worksheet and Unit Two Spelling and Vocab Worksheet.

Analogy Worksheet on left, Copy of Powerpoint on right

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Back

Here is a comparsion of the practice test and final test of two different students. One of these students scored a high grade for both these tests, one scored high on one portion and failed the other, and one student scored a failing grade for both these tests. The practice test alone is corrected by exchanging papers in class, however it is not recorded as a score. Rather, each student is required to re-write their misspelled words correctly and turn it in for ten points. The final test is also corrected in class by students exchanging papers and is recorded. This test was subjective, so I used a answer key to score the answers on the student's papers. Overall, the average grade for the final spelling/vocab test was 15/20 points.

More about my classroom students...

So far, I have been loving my students. I have between 23 and 28 students per class and four classes a day total. The students are primarily caucasian, however I have one student who is African American and one student who is Spanish. I am not completly sure about other students' ethnicities, this is just my observation. The male to female ratio I think is about the same. There is one class in which there are about 4 more females than males. There are a few students who have some learning disabilities such as autisim and ADHD so I am practicing how to make their learning more beneficial and how to adapt to my lesson plans for them. There is a resource room for these students so that is helpful. Also, one student has a PSA and I am learning how to adapt to her being in the classroom with the student 24/7. Right now, I have no primary concerns on any of my students. I know that some of them may become a problem later on, but for now I am doing just fine. I am really looking foward to seeing students have an "awh-ha" moment when they understand what I am trying to teach. I think that seeing those students make the right connections to what I am teaching and what they understand, makes teaching worth it. I think that just even having one student make those connections is worth it and it is a goal I hope to never give up on. I am looking foward to the next several weeks of teaching!

My Teaching Enviroment

800 East 21st Street, Hibbing, MN

Some background information about Hibbing:



-It is located in St. Louis County in Northern Minnesota and established in 1893 by Frank Hibbing.
-Former home to Bob Dylan, Kevin McHale, Vincent Bugliosi, Roger Maris, Jeno Paulucci, Rudy Perpich, Gary Puckett, and Dick Garmaker.
-The community has 32 parks, two golf courses, a skatepark, softball/baseball fields, soccer fields, indoor & outdoor ice rinks, fishing, hunting, boating, bocce ball, horseshoes, cross country ski trails, the Hibbing raceway, a marksmanship center, and is on the Mesabi Bike Trail.
- Hibbing Public School schools house a student population in excess of 2,600 students. Various district programs actually serve patron needs from pre-school through adult.  Educational programs are offered in two elementary schools (K-2), one middle school (3-6), one high school (7-12), Early Childhood Center, alternative night school and one alternative learning center.
- Hibbing High School is a community landmark,  it was constructed by the Oliver Mining Company as a gift to the town while the community was moving from North Hibbing. The 1800 seat auditorium is modeled after the Capitol Theater in New York City and in addition, there is a beautiful library/media center, two swimming pools, four gymnasiums, four modern computer labs, and an updated science wing provide students with excellent facilities for learning. The classrooms are newly remodeled as of this year and look fabulous and fresh. On an interesting note, the construction of Hibbing High School was started in 1920. The cost of the building was roughly $3,900,000. Today it would cost over $50 million to replace.
- The school mascot is the "Blue Jackets" and the symbol that represents the school is an achor.