Bloggers:
I hope you all are ready for the upcoming finals. I do not know about you, but I definitely have a lot to do. All in all, I think I will be able to manage though. As you probably know, this is our last official blog post of the semester. I will try to continue to blog. With that said, feel free to read and comment on my blogs.
Quite frankly, I was unfamiliar to the "backwards" teaching philosophy. Even though this is pretty new to me, I am willing to try out anything. This approach first focuses on planning with the final assessment and working backwards to create the rest of the lesson. If you remember, my partner and I are working on a research unit plan for a sixth grade class. My partner received a little more information from his cooperative teacher. As of now, we are thinking about creating a research project dealing with the United States presidents.
Because we are focusing on the final assessment first, the overall assessment of the entire project, I believe, is to have the children present their information to the entire class. After researching their president, each student will make a poster or some other form of visual aid to present to the class. The children will then act as their president and speak from his point of view. I believe the children will really enjoy acting as if they were the president. I also believe many of the children will get pretty creative with their project.
My partner and I are going to work on the project more tomorrow. Hopefully we get a lot done. Have a great rest of the weekend and see you soon.
