This lesson plan was written for my Edu 454: Student Teaching Seminar: Contemporary Issues course at Trinity. This lesson plan was written and taught by me at Thornwood High School. During this lesson, students had a research project that they worked on in groups where they had to research a topic about the Elizabethan Era, create a Google Slides presentation, and present their findings to their peers.
The lesson and the requirements for this research project shows that I can "integrate reading, writing, and oral communication to engage students in content learning" (6Q) and that I "teach students to analyze, evaluate, synthesize, and summarize information in single texts and across multiple texts, including electronic sources" (6O). (The rubric used for grading the presentations can be found by clicking here. The instructions and expectations for the research project can be found by clicking here). This research project shows proof of this by having the students read to perform research from multiple sources (both from physical texts and from electronic sources), they have to write to create their Google slides and to complete the worksheet given to them where the tell me what they learned from their peers presentations that they will watch, and the project promotes oral communication since the students will have to give a presentation where they will discuss their findings with the rest of their peers.
By creating this research project I learned how to incorporate multiple skills into one assignment. The research project required collaboration, reading, writing, and oral communication in order to complete and be successful. This is important to my development as an educator because I will need to be able to develop as many skills and abilities as possible in my classroom to meet the needs of my students both inside and outside of the classroom. We have a limited amount of time each day in class, so I must use that time wisely, and the more I am able to help my students develop within that time frame each day the better their chances are for success in school and in life after they leave school and enter college or the work force depending on the path each student chooses for themselves.