Reflection #1

REFLECTION

Lesson Planning is crucial on helping the educator to focus on specific tasks on hand to accomplish. It helps to stay on track, stay focused with goals to reach in a particular time frame. The Lesson Plans assist possible Substitute teachers and Para-professionals to step in when the situation calls for it without missing any of the curriculum planned for any given day. It helps the teacher to decide in which method to teach the lesson and the materials needed in which to teach them. There’s greater accountability and it makes it easier for Educators to try different technique and to go back and forth trying out what fits best for any given class. The Educator may prefer a particular method but not all classrooms are the same and there needs to be flexibility. There are various Lesson planning techniques and the ones covered thus far are Transpersonal, Constructionist and Behaviorist. There are attributes of the three Lesson Plans listed here that one would implement on any given day but the one that I most relate to would be the Transpersonal Lesson Plan method, placing greater emphasis on the individual and free self expression. There is

less focus on standardized testing and correlates more with the lives of the students involved. I would take under great consideration, the Constructivists method because I also believe that we are our past and we perceive things and interpret them in our own way because of where we come from and what we’ve done. I believe that every single thing we experience today and how we experience it, is due mostly by our childhood, upbringing, and we need to be sensitive to the emotional baggage the student brings in to the classroom. We experience things, good and bad, and act out accordingly and it may differ greatly from others, eventhough the information received is identical. Also notable in its past and current success rate is The Behaviorist method, founded by Madeline Hunter. It consists of Setting goals, and clear outlined practices to be done in groups as well as alone with the teacher’s guidance all the way to project’s closure. This series of techniques, have been used for decades and proven effective in it’s thorough, and traditional, manner of teaching . Areas I favor are reinforcement & motivation, as well as having a concrete methodology when planning and presenting a lesson and would put to practice as well. I would be hard pressed to decide on just one method, whereas incorporating all three and others would prove more beneficial.

EME2040-Introduction to Educational Technology

Prof. Joseph D. McNair

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