Commitment

=**Teachers are Committed to Students and Their Learning**=

An effective teacher thoroughly plans and prepares for each lesson they teach. This is a must to ensure meaningful and memorable learning. Not only does a teacher need to know their content area well, it is also essential that the teacher understands the ability levels of each individual student and knows and executes a variety of strategies for differentiated instruction. This is ideal, in order to help each and every student succeed in the English classroom.

Listed below are some examples of lesson plans I have implemented into the Seventh Grade English Classroom. Both lessons incorporate technology and the preparation work was extensive, as I used the Technology Intergration Plan (TIP) Model to prepare myself for these lessons.


 * Tip Model - Lesson 1 - Greek Mythology "Fakebook Profile" Projec**t

This TIP Lesson Plan was developed for use with both my Academic English 7 and General English 7 classes. I try to include projects that are interesting and relevant to all of my students. In this research activity, students created Facebook-like profiles for six different Greek mythical characters. I selected this project because almost all of my students have Facebook profiles and use much of their time out of school on the social networking website. The resource I used was a Facebook template, created using PowerPoint. I was excited to share this project with my students because it's a different way to use PowerPoint. They are all familiar with teachers who use this as part of their lectures and the students previously completed a project where they were to create a PowerPoint to help teach a lesson to their class. This project allowed them to see a different use of PowerPoint besides the usual slide-by-slide notes/lecture approach and also was the solution to the learning problem students face when it comes to thinking 'research' is boring and useless.


 * Tip Model - Lesson 2 - Greek Mythology Web Quest and Create Your Own Myth**

This TIP Lesson Plan was developed for use with both my Academic English 7 and General English 7 classes. I created a Greek Mythology WebQuest as a way for students to engage themselves in activities to generate their own learning. They also were assessed in an alternative way rather than just a paper and a pencil test. I have found that students enjoy being creative in their writing versus strict research reports and fictional writing assignments. I have addressed this issue by giving the topic for the writing project and then giving my students freedom to choose and be creative throughout their stories.