Michelle Perry

I feel as collaborative planning would be beneficial for the teachers and the students.  If all the teachers work together in creating lesson plans, changes can be made as needed and the teachers will know from year to year what needs to be adjusted, added, deleted or left alone.  Another benefit from having collaborative planning is that if a substitute teacher has to be in a class for any period of time, the students will not have to miss out on the next pieces of information.  The class can continue on as though the primary teacher had never left.   As long as the teachers and administration are able to work together as a team, the students will benefit from all the extended minds being used to create lessons.

Hello class! I am not sure I will have a lesson plan "style" but I really like the step by step of Madeline Hunter's lesson plans. I do think that she has a lot of steps/information that goes into one of her lesson plans but I think the more the better for the students.  I think I read this at some point tonight, "Lesson plans should be geared mostly for the student and types of students; being a guide for the teacher".  I really like that because if for some reason the students are not understanding what the lesson plan is about then the teacher needs to be able to adjust quickly.  For a teacher to know the class very well, definitely helps in creating lesson plans for them.  Work smarter, not harder!

Hello all!      I think lesson planning is vital to the classroom because it helps the class flow as well as keep the teacher in line on what it next for the class.  When I say flows, I mean that it provides the teacher with steps on what he/she needs to cover for a specific subject.  The teacher needs to be able to follow along with Bloom's Taxonomy to ensure that there is creativity, evaluation, analyzing, application, understanding and remembering within the plan for the students.  With the creativity, the students will remember what is being taught; evaluating will tell the teach what the students know or not know pertaining to that information; analyzing will break down the information to the students; applying the information will again help the students understand and remember the information which are the last two for the taxonomy; understanding the information for a specific subject helps the teacher know that the students will remember (bein...

I have done learning objective before and have read many of them taking college courses but it is so different coming up with new ones after three years. :-0   Enjoy! 1. My husband will demonstrate to our son how to safely operate a chain saw with the appropriate safety equipment using work gloves and safety goggles while taking as much time as possible to safely and correctly utilize a chain saw. 2. In the first grade class, they will read, at home, a book of their choice from the school's readers selection in order to explain what was read to me the following day in an appropriate amount of time with the least amount of mistakes. 

Hello class! I enjoyed meeting everyone new tonight and those of you that were in previous classes.  I also enjoyed hearing about everyone's favorite teacher.  Most of the class definitely has had some very positive individuals that have helped to guide them into teaching or had a very positive role model.  I think it is awesome to have some of the same experiences as I have had throughout my college courses.  It is fun to hear everyone's adventures! 

·          Is the school goals driven?   I wish I would have taken these questions with me because this is not something that I actually took the time to research.   The school itself seemed to be goal driven in that each week the students have Heritage fitness time, where they have specific time set aside for the students to get exercise and learn about their health.   How are the goals displayed? I did not see anything displayed but I was not looking specifically for it.   

·          What diversity are you noticing in the school?   The school I was in was very diverse with the different cultures of students to the disabled students who were in the general classrooms.   There was one student that had autism, in a general classroom, that was just giving his para-educator a very hard time but she was extremely calm and worked things out with him so he was able to go about his day.   What are strategies in place to help these students be successful?   Keeping all the students in the general classrooms and ensuring the “Hope” team assists any student with possible issues.   What needs do you feel are going unnoticed?   None that I noticed while I was there.