TPACK Lesson Plan
- Learners: anything
from late elementary or early middle school through pre-algebra
- Learning outcomes:
The point of the lesson is to give my students a simpler and better grasp
on a math principle that is vital to learn before they reach any other
required math class
- Assessment: At
the end of the lesson, the students will have an opportunity to show what
they know with practice questions on the board in front of the class and
end with a competition using the Kahoot app. They will leave class with a
worksheet for homework.
Second, break down your activity into a timeline of planned events and procedures. Here you should describe what students and the teacher will be doing chronologically during the activity. Below is one of the good examples from previous reflections:
- The lesson begins with two analogies to help them hopefully
have an easier time when adding and subtracting integers and showing them
how the analogies tie in to what they are learning.
- For some initial practice, the students will come up to
the smartboard and complete some practice questions.
- Once the students get a little more comfortable, we
will end class with a competitive quiz created using the Kahoot app to
ensure everyone gets a chance to show what they’ve learned in a more fun
way.
- The students will leave class with a worksheet for
homework. They will also be encouraged to visit interactive and fun math
game websites that can be found on my class website.
Reflection
1.
What are your strategies
and why do you think your strategies are appropriate to teaching this specific
content? What makes you believe it would help your students comprehend
this particular content? Give specific examples from your described activity.
Let’s be honest. Very few
students enjoy math on its own. So I believe that real life analogies and
applications like comparing numbers to money are by far the easiest way to give
the students a good grasp on what they’re learning. Then letting them practice
on the board in front of the class makes them want to work harder so they can
show off what they learned in front of the class which is ultimately what I think
most students wish do in school.
- What would be some conceptions and pre-conceptions that
students of different ages and backgrounds bring with them when learning
this particular content? What would you be concerned about students' prior
knowledge, experiences, motivation? Again focus on the content and your
teaching strategy, not the technology!
Math in its
general form may come a lot easier to students with parents that have gone to
school and gotten an education at the higher level. But for the lower income
and especially all first generation students, all subjects and especially math
may be incredibly hard for them to grasp and retain so using real world analogies
like represent the numbers with money or positive and negatives being different
affiliations whether it be different high schools or, for more inner city
districts, gangs or other parties that these students have much more experience
with and can take it in easier than just a bunch of numbers.
3.
What main instructional
strategies would this technology use serve in your activity? How would using
the technology support the way you teach this activity? Please give examples
and be specific to your described activity. Think about your main teaching strategies
that this technology would support.
To start,
using the smartboard and having the students come up to answer practice
questions forces them to get involved and is much more intriguing than making
them do book work. It also provides immediate feedback from the teacher and
also the students looking on. Then allowing them to compete using Kahoot
compels students to try harder and grants more motivation to learn more so they
can, in return, show off more.
- What different classroom management strategies you
might need to consider when using this technology in the activity? Give
examples and be specific to your described activity.
One thing
about technology is that it can be extremely distracting at times. The key to
incorporating this technology properly to be most effective is to keep the
students on track. This is easy to do with the smartboard as you are the one
controlling what the students are supposed to do. But with some apps that allow
the students to be independent, we must regulate what they’re doing to ensure
that they get the most out of the lesson and do not get off track.
5.
How would using this
technology enhance the way the content is represented in your activity (e.g.
demonstrations, explanations, examples, illustrations, analogies, and etc.)?
That is why you think the selection and the pedagogical use of this technology
may enhance what you teach (the content in your activity). Give specific
examples from your activity to support your answer and keep in mind the
learning objectives that you stated previously.
As
I stated before, math is probably the toughest subject for most students to
comprehend. With the aid of technology, this content can be directed in a way
that all students are more familiar with. We must adopt our students’
embracement of technology and use it so that they can attain this knowledge in
the best way that they learn.
- In what different ways students practice or understand
the content in your activity that would otherwise not be possible without
the use of the technology? In addition to motivational benefits, what else
can students do with this technology as they are learning the content?
Without
technology, the students would be sent home with traditional straight out of
the book homework which for many students is more of a chore than it is another
opportunity to brush up on what they’re learning. With it, they have access to
countless helpful tools that they can pick up easier than just reading the
textbook. As they are learning the content, the students can also use websites
that combine learning with entertainment by playing educational games so that
they can get even more practice while still staying interested.
