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My fieldwork assignments observing and teaching in multi-grade classrooms for K/1 and 4/5 gave me the opportunity to learn new techniques and refine my approach to teaching.
A Lesson Plan in Action
One of the lessons I taught this year involved using an area model to find the product of a multiplication problem. The steps in this lesson plan call on prior knowledge, engage students with sample tiles to create their own area examples, and then ask students to find the area of Joshua's house and decide which rooms to place the tiles and how many will fit in each.
The lesson reflects on Universal Design Learning (UDL) and California State Standards for 4th grade math.
The take away from this lesson proves that casual assessments during class discourse and group work are valuable tools to help teachers see what areas students need help with.
Annadel Class Vid Wide 480p.movClick the video above to see my classroom discourse in action.
5180 Midterm Reflection and class work samples.pdfClick the lesson plan above to view.
Science Curriculum
Observing experienced teachers like Chris Lyons in her 4/5th grade class at Ross Valley Charter not only helped me understand best teaching practices, it also tied in nicely with my course work at Dominican University to better understand California State Standards and inquiry based learning.
5135 Teaching Science Midterm_Annadel.pdfClick the slide show above to view an effective science curriculum.
Reading Lesson_Blend Letters.pdfClick the lesson plan above to view.
1st Grade Language Arts Lesson
I had many opportunities to observe and assist with Natalie Smith's 1st graders in their journey into reading. The lesson plan I created uses phonemes to blend single syllable words.
Math and Science Cross Paths in Earth's Water Lesson
In this lesson students observe sources of water and the limited resources available for freshwater verses salt water. Students watched a video on ground water, took notes and highlight vocabulary, drew pictures and graphs, and worked in groups creating a lab experiment that measures fresh water sources to the nearest thousands of a milliliter.
Earth's Water Lesson Plan.pdfConnecting at Choice Time with K/1
During choice time I engaged with students playing Legos, doing arts and craft and helping students thread knots for sewing. One of the highlights was playing Go Fish using colored fish instead of numbers. The students and I started using silly accents for some of the names like, "café a late". One of our non-verbal students started playing with us and began speaking with the accent. Her teach later told me this was the first time she ever spoke in class.
Assessing the Value of a Lesson Extension
As a teacher for 4th grade math, I decided to revisit an assignment I've taught in the past but didn't see as critical as other lessons.
Read the Reflections page of my plan to see the lessons I learned by taking a deep dive into comparing multiplicative numbers.
5145 Math Midterm_Annadel Dong.pdfClick the lesson plan above to view.
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