Thursday, September 6, 2012
Lesson Plans
Tomorrow I am leading the morning meeting. This afternoon I worked on planning the greeting and activity. I got a great book from Ms. Liepetz with activities so I was able to look through that for ideas. I also did some research online to determine a couple greetings that might work for our class. There is a student in our class that is Jewish and she suggested to me that we use Shalom as our greeting tomorrow instead of good morning so I am going to incorporate that as well. It is nice to bring part of students' cultures into the classroom when possible! For the sharing portion, students will continue to share post card poems they have been working on that tell about themselves. It was nice to have a morning meeting as a first lesson to plan because I was already familiar with the format and it eases me into the planning process.
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You're smart, and you make St. Kate's proud, when you find authentic ways to build cultural awareness into your teaching. If you don't already know, one of the most important Jewish holidays, Rosh Hashanah, begins next Friday at sundown. I'm sure you Jewish student will be pleased by your greeting (if that's what you decide to do today), and if you want to expand on that, you might ask him/her if s/he wants to talk a bit about the upcoming event.
ReplyDeleteIt's good to hear you're starting to take responsibility for specific parts of the day. Do you know which academic subject you'll start to take over first?
I am not entirely sure what subject I will take over first, but I think it will be the science/social studies block of time. I hope to get more experience with these subjects this week so I am ready for my observation!
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