Marley's Social Studies Journey

Performance Objectives When constructing lesson plans in any subject, you need a good objective. The objective is almost like the goal that you want you students to achieve: it is what you want your students to do during that time. There are four parts to a good performance objective: the audience, the behavior, the condition, and the degree. All of these aspects are detailed and specific enough so that the student should be doing exactly what is said in the lesson plan. When thinking of the audience, you are thinking who this lesson is being made for. What does your class know already or need to learn in this new lesson? What is their tone like as a whole? Why are they learning this new information and how is it going to be done? Next thing to keep in mind is the behavior of the lesson. During this lesson you are trying to have your students meet a goal; what do you want them to do behavior wise that will help them to learn this topic? How are you going to chang...

Fieldwork Experience- Observing! Being able to watch all of the groups, made up by my peers, teach the second grade class economics in many different ways is interesting. Each group is able to teach their own version of economics in a variety of ways. Each group has a slightly different topic based off of economics and it is fun to watch each peer have their own way of teaching. Observing is a very important, and I think essential, way to learn how to teach. Being able to watch experienced and even new teachers, can give you real life examples and situations of things that can actually happen in the classroom. Observing also gives you the chance to not worry about actually relaying information to students in an efficient way, but to just focus on how you can better your own teaching skills. Creating an appropriate and engaging lesson plan is hard enough, so to be able to watch students in a classroom before having to yet...