Lesson Plan Presentations 11-29-17

In class we heard Devin Shrum's lesson plan presentation. His first lesson was for History and the Unit was on the Civil War. I thought that he had a good use of Bloom's Taxonomy. I also thought he had a good objective; although it seemed like a lot of objective for one lesson. I thought his time allowed for the preassessment was good. For an anticipatory set I thought he might be able to use a meme maybe something like this:

I liked how he had the students working in groups of 2 and was giving them information to prepare them to know information that was going to be on their test. I thought the use of a power point was a good idea to maintain student engagement. I liked that he had discussion time as well. I thought that the checking for understanding portion might need to be based on an independent activity that can be assessed based on the individual students performance. Devin showed good modeling, guided practice activities, and closure. 

Devin's lesson two was also based on History. Again, he showed a good use of Bloom's Taxonomy. His anticipatory set he used was a poll. I thought that was an alright idea, but could maybe include a picture to go with the poll. I liked the Snow Storm idea he had for checking for understanding. However, I was just wandering how you would check for understanding with each student individually; if you are playing snow storm? I think sequencing cards are a good idea to have the students fill out during guided practice. I thought he had good remediation in using prefilled sequencing cards. The "Inside Out" activity was also very interesting. The enrichment, I thought was just a little out there. I don't know about everyone being able to find out their family history though. I liked a lot of these ideas in Devin's presentation they were very original. Thank you for presenting Devin.