Lesson+Plan+Question+Answers

=Lesson Plan Project Questions Answered=

1. Why did we choose this lesson? Brief summary or original lesson plan plan design/goals of lesson. We chose this lesson plan to expose our students to the broad lesson which, is to become familiar with the letters of the alphabet, sequencing, letter sound correlation, and small word identification.

2. Define new lesson plan design/goals of lesson. The new lesson plan is designed to incorporate up-to-date and evolving methods in teaching to facilitate learning to meet current standards. The lesson plan meets today's teaching strategies for encouraging school and home cohesiveness in teaching and learning by allowing parents to be part of their child's teaching and learning experience. The new goals of the lesson plan are to meet all students needs through universal design, specifically differentiated instruction.

3. Which tool or tools did you choose to incorporate into this lesson to potentially improve it? We chose to use the websites www.learningplanet.com, www.playkidsgames.com & www.showme.com. specifically ABC order game, Alphabet action and Alphabet sequence. Showme.com is used to create, draw and record a video.

4. Why did we choose this tool? We choose these tools because of their ability to utilize technology in the classroom, by making the lesson multi-sensory and multi-modal, by actively engaging and motivating students to participate in the activity. This will ensure that the students have multiple opportunities to learn through repetition.

5. What standards were you using to guide your decision on this? We used the NETS standards, 1. To facilitate and inspire student learning and creativity. And we also used GLE's, R-K-1.5: Recognizing and naming all upper and lower case letters. R-K-1.6: Identifying the primary sounds represented by most letters (sound-symbol correspondence)

6. Do you feel this will improve your teaching ? If so, how and why? These technology tools will keep our teaching pedagogy current will new technology that is available for teachers to use in the classroom.

7. Do you feel this will help improve your students learning? If so, how and why? These technology tools will dramatically improve the way our students learn in the classroom because not only will they engage and motivate students to participate in the lesson but it will ensure universal design by incorporating differentiated instruction.