Nt1310 Unit 1 Review Assignment

I am currently placed at Eagle Academy, a charter school, in East Toledo where I observe 6th and 7th grade Early World history. Mr. Story is the only social studies teacher at the school which means he teaches a whole timeline of events from ancient civilizations, eastern and western hemisphere history, the founding and establishment of America and the Modern World which is a lot of content to know what to teach and design lesson plans for! There are more boys than girls in each of the classes I observe. Since moving on to the third part of this course, I developed three supporting questions to answer while observing Mr. Story that reflect to the essential question which is “How do we design instruction that sticks? to answer while
Preview assignments are also called hook assignments and typically are five to seven minute short assignments meant to “spark interest, activate prior knowledge, tap a wide range of intelligences and students to tackle new concepts. (Bower, Lobdell and Owens,2011). These hooks can range from anything from having students react to music to comparing their personal lives with key concepts which is important for social studies as one the reasons students don’t like social studies. I don’t ever see Mr. Story use preview assignments in his class. Usually students just walk in to sit in their desks in rows facing the front and he will go straight into the reading or PowerPoint and not even tell students what they will be discussing for the day or seeing what they know already. The students every class period know what they will be doing and sometimes don’t even bother listening which bothers me. I believe if Mr. Story used occasional hooks in his class, students would be more interested and motivated to learn and possibly connect it better to their life and previous