A Time to Reflect: Multimedia Lesson Plan

  This was my first time creating a lesson plan. The task was quite difficult but I hope it gets easier once I get familiar and comfortable with the planning process. One way of creating a similar lesson plan is having the groups make a group project. In their project, they are to present their results on a presentation board. They can create graphs of their results, draw the 5 Food Group Pyramid, or give additional informational facts about cereal. What I would still do is use the grading rubric because it is an effective teaching method to evaluate students.

Based on what I have created in this lesson, the following lesson plan would may be exercising. I would teach the importance of daily exercising activities because exercising is as important as eating. In the future, I could use these lesson plans when teaching Health. I will evaluate students performance by attaining the learning objectives from the lesson. “The process of setting data-informed student goals and monitoring progress against those goals is considered to be a best practice for teachers” (Baltimore City Public Schools, 2015). Further, effort and participation would also be praised and taken in consideration of.

My student evaluations help me see what needs improvement on. Every lesson plan would be evaluated by how much my students have learned. If 85 - 90% of my students evaluated well, I may move on to my next lesson plan. If more than half of my students still do not understand the fundamental skills, then I will modify my lesson plan. “The extent to which each teacher is willing to accept the personal responsibility to improve, to constantly strive to learn, apply and create appropriate teaching-learning procedures, is precisely the extent to which they are becoming more professional, more responsible, and more effective; and is the extent to which they can assure that they “Leave No Child Behind,” (Page, 2008).  I do not want to keep moving on new and different lessons if more than half of my students are not comprehending fully. It shows me I am failing as a teacher, not my students. I would like to see my lesson objectives reached and attained by my students.  

I don't see how the lesson plan is connected to the real world is not included in the ASSURE lesson plan format. It is something I would include because, as teachers, we are preparing students what they learn inside the classroom for outside the classroom. For example, understanding which is a healthier cereal to eat would help students become aware of how much salt and sugar intake is in foods they consume. Therefore, their awareness of healthy eating habits would help them make smart eating choices throughout their life.

Additional information such as the dangerous effects of not eating healthy would be instructed. I can demonstrate some examples and ideas of what would happen if they constantly consume so much salt and sugar in their meals. Knowing the causes and effects of demonstrating poor eating habits would be further instructed. Resources such as educational games can be played on the school computer or books on healthy food can be provided to help further enhance the lesson.

To create a lesson plan challenging for my students, I would incorporate more cereal choices and make a tally of all the sugar, fat, and salt intake. They would make tally marks and create different type of graphs out of their tally marks. Then, they would find the statistics of their results from the graph such as the minimum, maximum, median, average, and range of each cereal. This would show how health and math is being incorporated into one lesson plan.

References
Baltimore City Public School. (2016). City schools inside: Informing and engaging Baltimore city public schools employees. Student Learning Objectives. Retrieved from http://www.baltimorecityschools.org/Page/26885.

Page, B. (2008). When is student failure the teachers fault?. Teachers.Net Gazette. 5(7). Retrieved from http://www.teachers.net/gazette/JUL08/page/