Performance Activity 33

Performance Activity 33: Discuss with cooperating teacher next week’s co-taught lesson, as it should correspond to the regular classroom curriculum. Using the Benedictine format, write a formal lesson plan for the 1st of 2 co-taught lessons.

Mrs. Corcoran suggested an interesting idea, which will impress you, Dr. Liace, of doing a co-taught lesson with another classroom. The lesson is surveying how many students prefer one of the following ice cream flavors: chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, cookie dough, and other. The lesson involves students surveying and socializing with other students, creating graphs, bar graphs, and create Microsoft application visual aids to discover the results of how many students prefer each of the following flavors.
Have it approved by your cooperating teacher and then reviewed by your university supervisor two days prior to the lesson being taught.

While Mrs. Corcoran and I discussed about the lesson, we went over last minute details before Maercker Intermediate School’s spring break and the rest of my spring break. Mrs. Corcoran reassured me she will respond to her emails over break to discuss about the co-taught lesson. Mrs. Corcoran approves and enjoys the idea of having students focus on both social skills and math goals throughout this lesson. I learned collaborating with others can be quite nervous racking, but I have full confidence Mrs. Corcoran and I can teach this lesson, and work with another class.

Performance Activity 38: Observe and document how the teacher demonstrates his/her content knowledge. How does his/her content mastery level impact the creation of a smoothly functioning teaching community in which students assume responsibility for themselves and one another, participate in decision-making, work collaboratively and independently, use appropriate technology, and engage in purposeful learning
Obviously, I do not want to lesson to be too easy nor too difficult. I want to challenge students and allow students to have fun participating in the lesson. One of my goals is for students to connect learning targets to their prior knowledge and have students make new connections to better remember material. Mrs. Corcoran has done the ice cream survey math for once a year for the past few years, and she has found the students can use prior knowledge and connect to new experiences to be applied in other areas of learning. I asked Mrs. Corcoran how she would like me to format the worksheets for students to use when asking students what their preferred or favorite ice cream flavor is to make sure the worksheet can be understood for students who can and can’t read well. She said to have the worksheet to be a few columns, list student 1,2,3…., and tally which ice cream favor he or she prefers. The impact on student learning is having a worksheet be easily understood, decrease frustration and stress, and have student enjoy the lesson. Mrs. Corcoran and I will communicate next week to go over the