Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Lesson Plan Supplemental Materials

This lesson was designed for my first graders. In this lesson plan I will be integrating mathematics into the students literacy to develop an understanding of where math fits into their world. I would specicically be focusing on two to three dimension shapes and how they are related to our everyday lifes. On day one we will read "The Greedy Triangle" where the students will be able to ask questions. I will have print outs of two-three dimension shapes as well as regular for the students to recognize the difference between the shapes. We will also have a group of students on the computer visiting Sammy Shapes website where Sammy the snake makes shapes with his body and the kids name it. I will have the students identify the shapes in their environment.

Here is the site.http://www.primarygames.com/storybooks/sammy/start.htm
We will include this site into our lesson as a part of the pre-essesment activities to see what the student knows.

Common Core Standards.


§  1.3.A.2 Create new shapes by combining or cutting apart existing shapes.
§  1.3.B.3 Identify the shapes of the faces of three-dimensional objects.
·                      1.3.B Describe solid objects: cube, rectangular prism, sphere, cylinder, cone and                 pyramid, and identify them in the environment.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/12YF_B-Wrrun4q85wK2OLKc_XHq9iXEt532pDi1FZcbU/viewform#start=openform

With this google form the students will be able to check off their shapes as they find it on the shape hunt.

http://quizlet.com/42163762/test
We will have a review on what we have learned by going onto this website and at the end the students will take this quiz to see if they had mastered this lesson. 

Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Growing-up Online

This was a program that aired on PBS it talks about the addiction that today’s teens have on the internet and how they are spending their whole entire life being on it. This documentary follows several students of a New Jersey high school over a period of time and interviews them about what experiences they have on the Internet. Some of the students said that they are completely a different person online. They feel free and untouchable while on it while others are being bullied to the point of committing suicidal.

  1.   The reason why I think the number of parents who reported the internet being a good thing decreased is the fear of intruders entering your house though it. I personally don’t allow my teenager son to be on the computer for more then an hour a day. With the increase of all these social media and texting messaging apps such as KIX, which the kids take advantage and text one another while in school. Several weeks ago we had an incidence where the while in class couple of girls were bulling and saying mean thing about another girl in their class while in class. The administration found out by the girl’s mom who came up to the school soon after all this started. The girl who was being bullied did the right thing by immediately texting her mom and telling her what was happening, by her doing that we where able to stop the situation from escalating to more. Because of these kinds of situation is primarily the reason why the number of parents who where okay with the prolong use of their teen using the Internet. 
  2.  Kids in today’s fast pace world where everything is provided here and now it’s hard for them to actually take the time an open up a book and read it for a report. They want to be able to get on that Internet and get busy with social media and the last minute go on Sparknote and copy and paste. With every school there are different policies. I work in an elementary school where the students are just learning how to write a report and we can see it quickly when a student copied and pasted straight from the web, as a teacher we know what they are capable of writing. We try to explain to our students the important of comprehending what they actually read and what is expected of them to write about.
  3. Yes, I believe that he did feel guilty because he knew that we really didn’t do the work. It also shows that his teacher allows him to look it up on Sparknotes and other sites. 
  4.  Nowadays anyone can become famous on the Internet. For everyone that post online videos and pictures there will always be someone out there who likes what they see and in only in they’re eyes the persona comes to live as a celebrity. With our fast pace world that person will only get their 15 minutes of fame and it will be on to the next. 
  5.  In this story a girl who is a 7th grader from a middle school in New York committed suicide in her home after she was cyber bullied. This only shows the lack of involvements with these kids. We as parents need to be an active role model in our children’s lives. http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/23/us/new-york-girl-death/ 
  6.  With that quote the girl is describing Suler’s Disinhibition effect of Dissociative Anonymity. This allows them to be invisible and sense of people not knowing them. She can do and say whatever she wants without be in front of them. 
  7.  I am not much of an Internet user. To be honest I do have Facebook and intagram and on my Facebook I created it in 2007 and my friend list is still under 200 people I originally opened Facebook to get in contact with my family over seas and my friend list consist of them only. With my intagram it’s about the same. With that being said it’s boring to be on my Facebook because I hardly have time. I believe it would be easy for me to disconnect from the Internet. I wouldn’t dislike anything from disconnecting, I already am.

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

National and State Technology Standards

1.    According to my opinion the purpose of the National Education Technology Plan is to show what we are lacking in today's educational system. Today's educational system there is a lot of challenges that are affecting all of us as teachers, parents, and students. We are dealing with children from all different kinds of backgrounds different kinds of life some parents value their child’s education and are involved with they’re everyday life’s and stay in connection with their teacher on day to day basis on their learning. While in the other hand we have parents who only send the children to school because they have to and that's the only meal they might have for that day. This will affect us as teachers because we will not have the resources to help those kids and the challenges they have as far as technology.
2.    The assumptions that some administrators, educators and or students may have about the National Education Technology Plan are how will we be able to accomplish it? Will every student have accesses to all the technology and everything they're saying it will be available in order for the entire student to accomplish and learn from? With this being said all administrator, teachers, students and parents must be willing to work together to see the light of the other tunnel.

          The main assumptions for this plan are as follows:

·      Many of the failings of our education system stem from our failure to engage the hearts and minds of students.
·      What students need to learn and what we know about how they learn have changed, and therefore the learning experiences we provide should change.
·      How we assess learning focuses too much on what has been learned after the fact and not enough on improving learning in the moment.
·      We miss a huge opportunity to improve our entire education system when we gather student-learning data in silos and fail to integrate the information and make it broadly available to decision-makers at all levels of our education system—individual educators, schools, districts, states, and the federal government.

3. The NETP presents a model of learning powered by technology, with goals and recommendations in five essential areas: learning, assessment, teaching, infrastructure, and productivity. The 21st. century competency plans of critical thinking, complex problem solving, collaboration and multimedia communication will provided assistance for the students to achieve by allowing the students to have all these five essentials woven within all the content area making it a lot more easier for the students to score high and achieve goals that are set forth for them.

4. Ohio Educational Technology Program and the National Educational Technology Plan are both align with one another for the purpose of wanting a better education for children and making sure that everyone gets the same education where they’re from rich or poor neighborhood. The main purpose is to close the Achievement Gap. The two are not aligned when it comes to having a set date for all of the OETP to be achieved by. The NETP put all these plans in place but no execution date.

5. Both the Ohio Education Technology program and the National Education Technology Plan have pretty much the same goals, everyone will learn through technology. Where they do not align is that when you give deadline to certain things and you don't have the right people and the right amount of training to educate the students, then datelines will not be met and students will not have the proper education to compete in the global economy. We first have to train the educators and once that is done then we should send them off to educate our children.

6. The challenges that this plan will face are.
·      Not everyone has access to computers.
·      Not everyone is disciplined enough to learn through distance   learning education.
·      Teachers may not have the proper amount of training.

·      Teachers may be overwhelmed with all the amount of training that needs to happen in order for distant learning schooling to happen.

Sunday, March 16, 2014

ORC Lesson Plan



This lesson is geared towards grades K-2, however I will be using it for first grade. For this lesson's subject area is reading, in this lesson plan students will choose books and be expected to identify the characteristic of circular structure and they will be excepted to organize their writing by drawing circular plot diagram to write about what the topic is. Students will work together with their classmates during workshop to help one another. Students will revise self evaluate their own work and at the end share it with the class.

Here in the next section will be the common core standards this lesson is designed for. This lesson has five 50 minutes sessions. I will be focusing in teaching the first and the second session where I will be getting the students to find book that will help them understand circular plot stories.

OH.CC.RL.1.

Reading Standards for Literature


Key Ideas and Details
RL.1.1.
Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
RL.1.2.
Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.
RL.1.3.
Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
RL.1.7.
Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.

OH.CC.RF.1.

Reading Standards: Foundational Skills

RF.1.4.
Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
RF.1.4(a)
Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
RF.1.4(c)
Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary.

OH.CC.W.1.

Writing Standards


Text Types and Purposes
W.1.3.
Write narratives in which they recount two or more appropriately sequenced events, include some details regarding what happened, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide some sense of closure.

Production and Distribution of Writing
W.1.5.
With guidance and support from adults, focus on a topic, respond to questions and suggestions from peers, and add details to strengthen writing as needed.

Research to Build and Present Knowledge
W.1.7.
Participate in shared research and writing projects (e.g., explore a number of ''how-to'' books on a given topic and use them to write a sequence of instructions).

OH.CC.SL.1.

Speaking and Listening Standards


Comprehension and Collaboration
SL.1.2.
Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.

OH.CC.L.1.

Language Standards


Conventions of Standard English
L.1.1.
Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
L.1.1(c)
Use singular and plural nouns with matching verbs in basic sentences (e.g., He hops; We hop).

Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
L.1.4.
Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 1 reading and content, choosing flexibly from an array of strategies.
L.1.4(a)
Use sentence-level context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.
L.1.5.
With guidance and support from adults, demonstrate understanding of word relationships and nuances in word meanings.
L.1.5(c)
Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., note places at home that are cozy)

I would implement this lesson into my classroom during reading and writing block. I will have the students work in small groups and help one another and share with one another as I walk from table to table helping the ones that are struggling a little bit. The only struggle my students will have will be at the beginning understanding what a circular plot story is and how it’s put together. After spending a good 50 minutes on it the first day it will go much smoother.