Artifact #1: Picture Analysis Lesson Plans (TE 801)
Goals: 2
Standards: 2 and 3
The lesson plans below were developed during my my initial courses at MSU while doing my student teaching year for a 10th Grade United States History class (Reconstruction to Present). The focus of both lesson plans was to create a project for a cooperate team of students to analyze a series of pictures and present that analysis to the class. They study the content of each picture, group and categorize them based on content and purpose, and compare them to pictures of a similar time period and/or subject.
Both artifacts were adapted from the National Archives Teaching With Documents Lesson Plans and focus on non-textual historical documents. These lessons demonstrate my ability to take and adapt material from reliable sources for use in the classroom. They also represent my focus from very early on in teaching with cooperative grouping strategies, multimedia analysis, and moving beyond a teacher-centered classroom to student-centered and progressive teaching.
The significance of this group of artifacts can be seen in my work today. That first year I experienced a difficult transition from student, to student-teacher, and finally a teacher in my own right. My student teaching field instructor even commented on my rough beginning in her final evaluation. That was more than five years ago. Today, those early lessons can be seen in my work as, among other duties, a curriculum coach and instructional facilitator. I now work with teachers to adapt and develop lesson plans from a predetermine curriculum for use in their classrooms.
Standards: 2 and 3
The lesson plans below were developed during my my initial courses at MSU while doing my student teaching year for a 10th Grade United States History class (Reconstruction to Present). The focus of both lesson plans was to create a project for a cooperate team of students to analyze a series of pictures and present that analysis to the class. They study the content of each picture, group and categorize them based on content and purpose, and compare them to pictures of a similar time period and/or subject.
Both artifacts were adapted from the National Archives Teaching With Documents Lesson Plans and focus on non-textual historical documents. These lessons demonstrate my ability to take and adapt material from reliable sources for use in the classroom. They also represent my focus from very early on in teaching with cooperative grouping strategies, multimedia analysis, and moving beyond a teacher-centered classroom to student-centered and progressive teaching.
The significance of this group of artifacts can be seen in my work today. That first year I experienced a difficult transition from student, to student-teacher, and finally a teacher in my own right. My student teaching field instructor even commented on my rough beginning in her final evaluation. That was more than five years ago. Today, those early lessons can be seen in my work as, among other duties, a curriculum coach and instructional facilitator. I now work with teachers to adapt and develop lesson plans from a predetermine curriculum for use in their classrooms.
WWI Propaganda Poster ProjectIn this lesson the students were placed in mixed-ability groups to analyse a series of WWI propaganda posters. The lesson is divided into two parts. First, they needed to categorize a stack of 15 to 20 posters into categorizes based on the message in the poster. In the second activity each student needed to pick on poster and analyze it in greater detail.
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Great Depression Photo Analysis ProjectSimilar to the WWI Propaganda Poster lesson, the students were once again placed in mixed-ability groups, but instead of analyzing a series of pictures, they were each handed one picture to focus in on. From there they were given other pictures on the same topic, the geographic location of where the picture was taken, and then some
background information on the picture itself. From there they needed to tell the full story of the picture.
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