a. Why are the instructional activities that you have planned appropriate for students at your grade level? Explain how you compared instructional activities to choose the ones you found most appropriate. i. The instructional activities that I have planned are appropriate for a tenth grade English class because they embody a good mix of beneficial strategies, differentiated instruction, and interest provoking material. After doing research, I compared a range of instructional activities I have used in the past that had shown positive results, and pooled together the ones I felt would be most beneficial to the text being covered in class. b. How have you planned to have students connect what they already know to the new information that you …show more content…
I plan to have my students’ play a mental game of Connect the Dots as we delve deeper into the discussions we will have in class. I am a “scaffolder” by nature, so scaffolding lessons is a teaching style I have become most familiar with; I had once noticed that I would comprehend new lessons better by building relationships amongst things I already knew. I believe in educational expansion. The only way to secure an adolescents attention and captivate their minds enough to have an internal urge to commit information to memory, their interests must first be utilized when lessons are being designed. c. How are learner differences accommodated in the lesson? Be sure to address racial/ethnic diversity and socioeconomic diversity. How have you provided varied opportunities for all learners to demonstrate what they know and are able to do? i. Learner differences are accommodated within my lesson by offering an audio recording of the text, dialectic journals, strategies such as “I do, We do, You do Together, and You do Alone”. In this lesson, I have provided varied opportunities for all learners to demonstrate what they know and are able to do by making realistic inferences about a subject/text based on what is presented to them. I like that every student will get the opportunity to think aloud and make predictions because the mixture of thoughts make for a great class discussion. d. What strategies are used to appropriately integrate technology into the …show more content…
The Constructivist classroom is authentic. Belenky, Clinchy, Goldberger, and Tarule (1986) inform us that constructivists distinguish didactic talk, when participants report experiences but no new understanding occurs, from real talk where careful listening creates an environment within which emerging ideas can grow. I have designed my lesson to be riddled with discussions, because the underlying topic in the assigned text is something that all of my students’ will have something to say towards. I prefer to have a freethinking environment where students’ are not afraid to say what is on their mind *with