Tech Lesson Plan

I am planning on doing the lesson that I described previously if all goes as planned. Sometimes my teacher changes what she wants me to teach but I am planning on doing my technology lesson for my last observation on March 31st. I will be doing other lessons with technology before that such as using a transparency to do math problems together and a small reading group using the promethean board. The lesson I plan on creating the slideshow for is correcting sentences on the promethean board (see previous post).

TPACK idea

My mentor teacher wants me to teach writing while really focusing on conventions such as punctuation, capital letters, etc. My idea is to use the promethean board to have several examples of sentences that contain errors and then have the students come up to underline or circle the errors they can see. I would use the shade tool to show the incorrect sentence and then lower it to reveal how the sentence should look. This would be an improvement because several sentences could be done in a short amount of time and the students' attention could be held longer.

Technology Inventory

There is so much technology at my school! I went to a training for how to use Promethean boards (an interactive whiteboard) and I was amazed at all the things you can do with it. After seeing how it can enhance learning an student participation I can't imagine teaching without one! I was also impressed to see how many computers are in each classroom around the school and how often the students get to use them.

In my classroom the students take reading assessments on the computer. It's great because it varies the tests questions from comprehension to listening, etc. It saves the teacher time on having to grade the tests and the teacher gets a printout of how the students did and what areas they still need to work on. The computers are also used to help the students learn and review skills. There are several fun learning games and lessons for the students to complete on the computer as part of their center time for math or reading. In addition to computer time in the classroom the students also get to have computer lab time twice a week.

Virtual Tour

My virtual tour takes students on a trip around the world to visit four of the world's famous museums including: The Louvre, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Hermitage, and The Smithsonian. Each location has activities for the students to do that help them understand art in general and the role museums play. Here is the link to my .kmz file to access the tour!

Virtual Tour