Domain+1+-+Planning+&+Preparation

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1e - Designing Coherent Instruction
T hroughout my student teaching I worked with Curriculum Engine to post my lessons and adhere to the common core standards. This artifact displays planning on curriculum engine for a whole unit. Throughout my coursework and student teaching I've become proficient in planning out whole units that adhere to the Common Core Standards. Curriculum engine serves to mainstream the process of allowing administrators and colleagues to view a teacher's lesson plans. This helpful tool allowed me to easily collaborate with my cooperating teacher and fellow math teachers during my student teaching at Harney Middle School. include page="HTML_div_close" include page="HTML_div_rightcolumn"

====These are examples of the actual Curriculum Engine site. **(On the left)** This is a lesson I posted on curriculum engine, which was viewable by my cooperating teacher and other teachers who had been given access to my lesson plans. The administration also had access to view my lesson plans. **(On the right)** This demonstrates the lessons I prepared for the month of March during my student teaching. During this time I had an Accelerated Math 7 prep. and a Developmental Math 7 prep. This required me to differentiate instruction when the same standard was being addressed for both classes; and also make sure I addressed any extra standards with my Accelerated Math 7 classes when preparing my lessons.====
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1d - Demonstrating Knowledge of Resources
==== T hese are two lessons that I prepared throughout my coursework at NSC and during my student teaching at Harney Middle School. I believe these lessons demonstrate knowledge of math content and show proper consideration of how to teach students the material. Both lessons display coherent instruction and a knowledge of resources. ==== ==== My first lesson to the right is a lesson that I taught to a group of my peers at NSC, and my instructor. The second lesson is an actual lesson that I prepared and taught at the middle school I conducted my student teaching. To the right, under each lesson, is a summary of the lesson and a reflection of those lessons after having taught them. ==== include page="HTML_div_close" include page="HTML_div_rightcolumn" ====This lesson is a Algebra II/Trigonometry lesson on the trigonometric ratios. This activity had students using the trigonometric ratios to solve real-world problems; and involved students working with partners and using hands on material to solve those problems. I picked this lesson as an artifact because it really exemplifies cooperative learning and using hands on activities to help students learn. The objective of the lesson was to have students work with partners, and go outside to the courtyard and figure the distance or height of distant objects. I wanted to create an engaging activity where students would work together, but at the same time each held accountable for working during the activity.==== media type="custom" key="15551104"

====As I've gained more experience teaching and teaching different lessons, the one thing that I believe is key for a lesson such as this one is giving clear and precise instruction. As I reflect on this lesson there are a few things I would change and improve the next time I teach this lesson. I would really focus on giving clear and concise instructions at the beginning. Although, the lesson went well when I taught it to my peers (even with a lot of of my peers not being math majors or some not having done high school math in many years) most of my peers knew what they needed to do when we went out to the courtyard to do the partner activity; however some of them had a few questions about using the hands on materials, and I feel like that was a direct result of me not thorough enough with my instructions.====

====This is another lesson plan, which I taught during my student teaching to my seventh graders. I included this lesson as an artifact not because it went perfectly as I had planned but rather it is a lesson that stands out as an example of how important it is for a teacher to constantly reflect upon their lessons and teaching. This lesson was on Similar Figures and how to find missing sides using proportions. I taught this lesson to my two accelerated math 7 classes, as well as my three developmental math 7 classes.==== media type="custom" key="15551108" ====My objective for this lesson was to allow students to work together, with hands on manipulatives, and independently discover that the angles of similar figures are equal and that the sides of similar figures are proportional. I began the lesson by handing each pair of partners two sets of similar figures printed on transparencies. I wanted the students to move the figures around in a way that they would discover those patterns and concepts. After the cooperative activity, we went into discussing how we can use proportions to determine if figures are indeed similar. As the day progressed I realized that however excited I was for my students to work with hands on manipulatives and work in partners, what I needed to really focus on with the lesson was allowing my students as much guided and independent practice actually solving the proportions. As the day went along I made adjustments to my lesson so that I would allow for my students to have more of that practice; because of those adjustments I believe the students left my classroom feeling more confident and capable to do the homework.==== include page="HTML_div_close"

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1f - Designing Student Assessments
T hroughout my planning this semester I've used informal and formal assessment shape my instruction. On the right is an example of how I would analyze data from tests to shape the instruction in my classroom. I would use the questions most frequently missed, and have similar problems on the warm-up for the following weeks. This allowed me to go over content that students struggled with, again. include page="HTML_div_close" include page="HTML_div_rightcolumn"

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