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The following lesson was created by my pre-internship partner Ms. Wallace and myself for our introductory lesson. Ms. Wallace and I wanted to ensure that each student was engaged in our introduction and had the freedom to create whatever they wanted.
Feel free to take this lesson and adapt it to your own context.
IntroductoryLessonPlan-WillowandJenna
Thank you for sharing such a wonderful introductory lesson. I especially liked the idea at the end to compile the students’ work into a class book. I automatically think of displaying student work on bulletin boards, but you provided me with another idea for what to do with students’ creations.
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[…] Week 1: My first week at the school was filled with a lot of learning moments. First off, I had to try and start to remember each students name. By the end of the first day, I knew 10 out of 25 names by memory. The morning of the first day was eye opening as my partner and I were asked to look for different procedures and routines in the classroom. In our co-operating teachers classroom, she has a routine to start everyday with bell work. This concept was new to me as I had never seen a routine such as a booklet that students worked on every moment. This is a routine that I would like to add and adapt to be a part of my future classroom as it provides students with expectation of what their role is at the beginning of each class. On this first day, my partner and I did a “getting to know you” activity with the students where they were given an opportunity to create a self-portrait that was later put into a class binder. Something that I learned from our lesson was that we needed to spread out our materials for the lesson to avoid a huge pile up at the back of the room or craft table. For our first lesson, this activity was easy and the students loved it. Our lesson can be found in the blog post called “Introduction Self-Portrait Lesson” […]
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