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Pear Deck Lesson
Pear Deck Lesson
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Using Pear Deck in the Classroom
Using Pear Deck in the Classroom
As my students began outlining their essays on a Google Doc (shared with me and my mentor teacher), we noticed that their quotes looked a bit funky. A lot of them had meaningless quotes that they were planning on directly quoting in their essays. My mentor teacher and I knew that we had to create a quick lesson about what could be deemed quote-worthy and what could be paraphrased. I decided to use Pear Deck/Google Slides for this lesson.
Pear Deck is a tool that supports active learning by allowing all students in the classroom to show what they know. I created a few slides with different quotes on them and the students individually selected whether or not they believed it was quote-worthy or if it could simply be paraphrased. I could see the results as they clicked on them, and I showed the results to the students after each slide. Later on in the lesson, I had them collaborate with their small groups to paraphrase a lengthy quote through Pear Deck. It was easy to use and an amazing way to quickly asses my students' understanding of the content.
Assesment
Assesment
Pear Deck sends the teacher a spreadsheet completed with student answers. This is a great way to quickly check students' understanding of a lesson. I chose not to take this as a grade, but after checking this spreadsheet I conferenced with students who chose incorrect answers. Although to be honest, there was no "wrong" answer for this assignment. As long as they could explain why they chose what they did then they were fine. While conferencing, I read over the quotes they picked out for their essay and we talked about why or why not it should be directly quoted. This tool helped me gauge students' understanding and helped students practice with quotes.
My First Lesson Plan Reimagined
My First Lesson Plan Reimagined
Linked is the very first lesson plan I created for this class. I had not yet learned how to create a lesson plan; I actually just recently learned how to create a lesson plan. With that being said, I changed a good bit of my lesson plan.
I changed my interdisciplinary connection. When I first created this lesson I was not sure what this part of the plan meant. I connected this lesson to my students' AP World History class because over half of them are in that class.
At first, in real life when I taught this, I had students read the play aloud because they enjoy doing that at times. For this lesson plan, I changed it to a reading that we would listen to as a whole group on Youtube to digitize the lesson a bit more. We do listen to audiobooks through Youtube a lot in class because a ton of the students prefer it that way. This small change could help students better understand the tone as well as help them with their reading comprehension.
Lastly, I edited the objectives, assessments, and materials in order for them to make sense because I now understand what each of those things means. Gotta love a clueless, beginning student teacher (,:
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