Clinical Field Experience D : Assessment and Feedback

Clinical Filed Experience C: Social Studies Mini Lesson Plan

Part 1: Social Studies Mini-Lesson Plan

Social Studies Standard: 5. Professional Responsibility and Informed Action Arts Standard: 5. Develop and refine artistic techniques and work for presentation Grade Level: K-8 Learning objective: Be able to prepare on how to express oneself using art.

1-2 learning objectives: the students will understand the art of expression. They will understand how to express themselves in the best way permitted by law that uses placards to display messages quietly.

Instructional Strategy: I will include both theory and practice. I will explain to the students how to make the placards and put their message so that it is conspicuous, understandable and to the point. I will help the students to draw and prepare the placards.

Integrating the learning activity with social studies and the arts: The activity will have two subject areas combined to come up with a learning objective that is highly relatable to the environment. From the social studies perspective, the messages that I will be explaining to them are those that are to elicit positive feelings and provoke action to be taken by the target audience. Thus the messages will be touching on the lives of people. The art perspective will be presented by having the placards ready. The drawing, the styling, and the way the placards are to be displayed are the art in action. Hence this activity will have brought together social studies as well as the arts.

Formative assessment: the kind of assessment that the students will have to undergo involves translating the class concepts onto a paper. This means I will ask the students to draw the messages on placards in their exercise books. These assessments will help the students express their understanding of the class concepts I will have given.

Reflection

In planning a lesson plan, it is advisable that a teacher may be able to use pre-assessment data. This data indicates areas that the students are well conversant with and where gaps exist. These gaps form the basis of the next instructional strategies to use when identifying what is necessary and what is not so important to be included.

Looking at the identified needs and basing on the strengths and the identified weaknesses of the students, I will hence craft the best learning strategies that will use the needed class concepts in the students and have a long-lasting effect. Through the use of mixed strategies or differentiation, students will find it affordable to piece together a whole lesson deliverable and showcase it in the assessments.

The students will hence be put into groups with which they will be able to make discussions and further grasp the concepts. By prolonging the class instruction through discussions. Here the students will have it easier understanding from their peers who are fast learners, and their performance is above the average. These students are very resourceful in making their peers understand that whatever the instructor is giving out is purely what is recommended. This is truly a case that brings out the essence of having differentiation in class to accommodate every student. Bringing arts in conjunction with social studies widens the scope of learners in terms of class coverage. This is hence important in preparing students to practice arts while learning social studies.

Looking at the outcome of the formative assessment, the results will then show the short-term needs of the current class and how to proceed with their level of understanding. However, this is important because teachers will also be able to develop lesson plans for the classes they are to meet in the near future.

I will use the lessons learned here to plan an all-inclusive classroom; this is because I will be using methods and strategies that will have identified from previous experience to make the students comfortable when around the instructor and fellow students.

References

Becker, Kristin. (2019). Past and Present 1-Transportation-Grade 1 Social studies lesson.

Retrieved from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fymspE5NVzA&t=32s (42:31 minutes)

Griesenbeck, B. (2018) Social students lesson plan: A night divided eastern and western

Germany. Retrieved from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0s7uZSi6Uoc(1:02:03)

Haager, D. (2016). Social studies lesson: Social studies passages. Retrieved from:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJicIqI3Esg (30:00 minutes)

Lucas, J. (2017). 2nd grade social studies: Producers and consumers. Retrieved from:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzmLBnCfFmA

Rayburn. (2017). 2nd grade Social studies lesson: Mardi Gras. Retrieved from:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1xA-NcBMSM (1:31:49)

Turley, A. (2019). Kindergarten social studies lesson: Voting. Retrieved from

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp4nvPKRd8Y(42:00 minutes)