Lesson Plan

For our lesson plans we used Microsoft Word to format them. Through this project I learned a lot about Word that I'd never known how to use. We added tables into our documents to make sure we included all the components of a lesson plan - Objective, Essential Question, Vocabulary, Materials, Hook, Model, Guided Practice, Independent Practice, Assessment, and Differentiation. We also included spaces for descriptions and time of each part of the lesson. We learned how to enter the text boxes that are used to fill in forms. I'd seen these in documents before but I'd never actually used one myself. That part was a little challenging for me because I had trouble figuring it out, but after our class session I figured it out easily enough. We also had to learn how to protect the document. This part seemed interesting to me. We protected the document so that no part of it could be edited except the fields. I assumed this was so that all the lessons plans we do look the same and are in the same format. At the same time I didn't like that I didn't have the freedom to edit my own document when it came time to make my template. I suppose there are pros and cons to everything.

I'm sure as a teacher I'll always be using Microsoft Word. As a college student I already use it constantly, and I can't see that changing. Word has so many helpful features that I learn something new about it every day. As a teacher Word is an option for creating lesson plans, assignments, letters, and so on. The uses for word are endless and extremely helpful.