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Today's Goals:

 * Demonstrate our ability to teach an engaging lesson including setting the stage, teaching a new concept, organizing a learning activity, and closure.
 * Identify options for differentiating by product, process, and content.

9:00 - 9:15 - Welcome & Agenda
 * Notetakers: Terence, Murphy, Madeline
 * Review: Ashley, Joanna
 * Draw a picture that aligns with one of the objectives we worked on yesterday.
 * LAST DAY OF CLASS! WHOOO!
 * Anny reminders:
 * School begins again at the end of August
 * One year MITers: be prepared to be in your classroom at your placement full time the first week.

9:15 - 10:45 - Teaching demonstrations (6)
 * Stephen (Social Studies)-- Topic: Plagiarism
 * Presentation: Powerpoint, video of what plagiarism is and how to avoid/not do it, class discussion on worksheet that students filled out during the video. Went over citations, activity with PurdueOwl and then closing (sharing of why students think it isn't okay to plagiarize).
 * Feedback: Creation of expectations for videos for students. Needed to visualize objectives to students. Hands on activity went well.
 * Jenny (Physical Education/Health)-- Topic: Refusing Drugs and Alcohol
 * Presentation: 'Just say No' introduction, group discussion on why students say yes to drugs and alcohol, taught refusal skill and knowing your rights, group scenarios on practicing refusal skills and closing reflection slip for students.
 * Feedback: Maintaining voice and speed throughout whole lesson. Allowed for a lot of comfortability of students. Solid logic, great student interaction and no one would be bored! Need to check for understanding.
 * Landon (Language Arts)-- Topic: The Semicolon
 * Presentation: Short video on punctuation marks, group discussion on most common punctuation, direct instruction on semicolon, mad libs work sheet on practicing semicolons, slide on how to remember when to use semicolons and the importance of them.
 * Feedback: Video at the beginning was awesome! Checking for understanding before the worksheet would be good.
 * Emily S (Language Arts)-- Topic: Character, Context and Point of View
 * Presentation: Find the traitor among us! Think and discuss with partners about character/context/point of view. Worksheet of meaning. Group work about a story and identify character, context and point of view. Using the text, identify and explore the character/context and point of view of the book. Closing activity as the third question on the worksheet as a reflection.
 * Feedback: Opening activity was great! Make sure to keep referring back to your start activity throughout the lesson. The closing reflection was very inviting, especially because if someone doesn't understand. Maybe one too many activities because it didn't dive deep enough into one.
 * Rachel (Language Arts)-- Topic: Sensory Language
 * Presentation: Recap of last class (imagery and metaphor), video of Serena Williams, went over sensory language, group sentence activity that focuses on 3/5 of sensory language, taking sensory language and applying it to April Rain Song, activity writing your own poem using one of the senses and closing through more practice.
 * Feedback: Great examples! Physical images might have been good to include so we can learn imagery beyond just through words. Modeling activity was very helpful!
 * Joanna (Math)-- Topic: Special Triangles
 * Presentation: Create triangles throughout the classroom with your arms, today's plan and objectives, collaborative activity with groups at a large white board, with partner find common theme of each whiteboard question, generalized worksheet and closing with how what we learned today will relate to tomorrow's lesson.
 * Feedback: The group work aspect was good. Create accountability measure to make sure all group members are participating (smaller groups would have been helpful). Slides were great in how concise and clear they were!

10:45 - 10:55 - Break

10:55 - 12:00 - Teaching demonstrations (4) WE ARE ON TIME!!!!!!!!!!!! :O........... JK! lol we are behind by 12 WHOLE MINUTES!!!
 * Ashley (Language Arts) -- Topic: Symbols
 * Presentation: Refresh on what Symbols are. Come up with symbols on a white board and share. Tupac lyrics and describe what symbols might mean in groups and share, written on board in columns. Write a twitter post describing symbolism in under 140 characters.
 * Feedback: Pop culture aspect was good to connect to students. Good materials but sit with them a little longer to get more meaning before analyzing. Activity while assessing was a clever use of time. Formulate own opinions then heard authors.
 * Murphy (Social Studies) -- Topic: Maps!!!
 * Presentation: Directions for Terrance and Madeline to navigate around the room using directions and pencils, elephant strides and desk lengths fro scale. Discuss with class problems of activity, No directions or scale? Review key features. Activity with whiteboards write down key features. Students create their own map and write directions and test it with a partner.
 * Feedback: Activity at the beginning went well. It was very engaging. Maybe go further into scale for better understanding. White board activity was good! Good feedback to students, responded well, kept conversation going and respectful. Scaffolding went very well! Engaging and constructive.
 * Britta (Language Arts) -- Topic: Citations
 * Presentation: Example. and where is it from? Presented objectives. Misattributed quotes video. Why do we cite? Review MLA format and how to do it. Activity to make your own citations. Review where to do citations online. Discuss how there any many versions MLA citations. Activity. SPEED CITATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Madison Won. Review citations again, Hand written v.s. online. Share something we learned with the whole class.
 * Feedback: Very applicable to real world. Don't forget to calm down and breathe. Closing was good! What did you learn? It was purposeful and applicable. Don't forget to have small groups so more students are thinking.
 * Richard: (Math) -- Topic: Scatter Plots
 * Presentation: Dot on board, get guided notes and read alone. Ask what is a scatter plot and talk in groups then share with the class. New question, same process. Document camera activity planting scatter plots on ice cream sales. Make sure everyone is on the same page with their data. Slides guess the graphs. Use white boards for more summary. Exit slips. THINK THINK THINK for the next day.
 * Feedback: Groups discussion about new definition and calling on different areas was good. Chaos for handing out materials.Had to be on the whole time because of note sheets and engaging teaching. Lots of checking for understanding.Maybe do the scatterplots "scattered" around the room like Joanna's activity with triangles. PERFECT wait time for the whole class to calm down. Defiantly saw yesterdays lesson applied today. Slides a little too clustered or put parts into boxes. Not all caps just regular upper and lower case. Emphasis one thing not many things.

GREAT LESSONS! They could be used in the classroom and everyone did a good job recognizing the different teaching strategies.

12:00 - 1:00 - Lunch

1:00 - 1:00 - Burning question: What to do about cell phones in class?! (doing it in the afternoon.) CELL PHONES........ (1:00- 1:30)
 * Cell phones will be an issue, not all students will have them but it will be a problem.
 * school puts a sticker on a phone if the kids are allowed to use them.
 * warnings and then once its a distraction they take it.
 * if you need to use it set guide lines, put it on the desk so it isn't hiding.
 * phones at lunch and passing periods worked. but then opposite then there is a lot of confusion.
 * none during direct instruction but maybe during individual work time.
 * can be a really useful learning tool and a distraction at the same time.
 * Policies vary from class to school to district. Know the policies and follow them. Especially during the fires few years as a new teacher. As you become a more established teacher you can adapt a little more.
 * A time to just PUT IT AWAY on your table face down so its harder to use it so it can help students stay engaged and learn good social skills. maybe put it in a closed box so its not a distraction, physically remove it form your body.
 * hopefully you are engaging enough to keep then off their phones
 * use technology through another device other than phone?
 * Kids come up with their own policy and then they are managing their own technology and its role in their lives academically.
 * Kid who looks up information in the middle of the lesson because it is so interesting, treated differently than texting a friend. Run with it. Come back to it later.
 * Power off?? what about an emergency?? parents will call the school. it will be fine.....
 * Shop teacher, bandsaw "fake" phone to set an example.(THIS IS AN EXTREME EXAMPLE!!!!) don't be afraid to implement consequences.
 * Most kids won't talk back but some might. its not a battle to wage publicly. Talk about it after class.
 * its all bout how you do it, your attitude.
 * Have ongoing dialogue and its not a black and white, right or wrong issue.

1:00 - 2:30 - Teaching demonstrations (6) > What does this document tell you about the life of an average American in the 1940’s? > > Feedback: Would like to make his topic more clear > > > __Lacy (biology): __ > Identify and describe the 5 different types of ecological relationships. >  Predation > Competition > Parasitism > Mutualism > Commensalism > > > > __Madeline (social studies): __ > Alan Turing and Enigma (WWII era) > Feedback: Students take the perspective of a German soldier Lesson is activity (not lecture) based. If more time was available, go in-depth more The activity of "being a German soldier" is a good activity for the class
 * Terence (Social Studies) -- Immigration
 * Presentation: Recap of the day before. Worksheet. Create a story about your immigrant using the information we know about immigrants. Example provided. Students work... Bring it back, share with your group. Possibly share with the whole class. Relate it to economics. Summarize. Exit tick was story and a plus or minus on how it worked.( simple way to get good feedback)
 * Feedback: Constrain the era and places? It had been narrowed to employment which was good. Targets and activities were clear. Maybe teach the employment first and some history and the had them do the activity. Images of working immigrants, how do they feel? Get some more emotions showing... Relate it back t modern day. Work individually or as a group. Modeling was good but maybe read it out loud. Ask questions to help guide the stories, How do you feel? Where are you going to live?
 * Madison (Math)
 * Presentation: Highs and lows and then Madison shared hers. Who likes deceptive stories and tv shows? Tells story of Bill Gates house broken into. How do we find the amount of crime tape we need to put around the house? (solved a word problem without seeing it) What we are doing for the day. Work on worksheet on the document camera... TOGETHER! Talk with group about what the steps are and then come back together. What is circumstance and area and when do we use it? Activity where everyone has a role. create real world problems. Another group will have your problems and solve it. Present in front on the class and "critique" each other. Math journals for feedback.
 * Feedback: Assignment student groups good to keep all kids engaged. Used the real world application which was AMAZING!!! Checked for understanding before moving forward. Talked with neighbor before moving forward. Maybe break into two lessons? One circumference and area then story problems. JK.
 * __Matt (social studies): __
 * WWII rationing (each group given a primary document)
 * o What is rationing? How does it work? Who was impacted? Matt will teach about various aspects of rationing
 * How would rationing differ today? (from 1940)
 * Jigsaw activity (group-learning)
 * Making rationing relevant by connecting the past to the present
 * Women in WWII and connecting it to rationing
 * Images were engaging and helpful to the presentation
 * each group given an image of animals
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Group-work (one group gave an example)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Feedback: Feels good about the intro activity but needs more time to teach the concept
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Good slides (not a lot of words)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Continuity from last demonstration
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">The activity engaged and led to discussion
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Who is he? What is his impact on WWII? The world today?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Worksheet helps guide students through the lesson

__Maria (English):__ Identify and distinguish most common homophones Feedback: The flow of this presentation was much improved from the first one Activity (ig post) was a good example
 * Shows video to start her lesson
 * Moves into group-work (writing down homophones)... groups share one of their examples
 * Activity follows demonstration of homophones and using them in sentences
 * Showed instagram post of R. Westbrook (had class correct it)

GREAT JOB EVERYONE! Only one hour to go!

2:30 - 3:15 - Differentiation Trivia We can __differentiate__ by: Content (what is learned), Process (how it is learned), and Product (how students show what they learned) We can also __differentiate__ according to students': Readiness, Interest, Learning Profile One resolution to a problem does not work for similar people (if two people have dyslexia, a resolution may work for one person but not the other) Get to know your students!
 * [[file:fritzente801/differentiation_cuecard.pdf|CueCard]]
 * Group activity (pairs) sharing one way in which you learn differently
 * Give advice to your partner

3:15 - 3:45 - Review & Reflect
 * (Anny will take a quick look at your lesson plans)
 * Course Evaluations

3:45 - 4:00 - Closure & Housekeeping
 * Closure - Britta & Matt
 * Housekeeping
 * Upload to BB by August 7 - lesson plans, instructional materials, reflection of teaching
 * I will email a One Drive link to your teaching video today or tomorrow.
 * You will receive written feedback on your final projects via BB