Answer & Explanation:Examination of Curriculum and Assessment
As a future educator, many of your lessons will come from
internet searches that will then be adapted to meet the needs of your
students. Therefore, it is important that you are able to examine lesson
plans thoughtfully to ensure that it includes the components to support
student learning needs. For this assignment, you will examine an Immigration Lesson Plan for Grades 3-5 and answer the following questions.
Justify the alignment of the learning objectives, the learning activities, and assessments.Justify the construction of the unit to ensure high relevance to
studentsΒ lives and experiences so that they can build new knowledge on
their prior knowledge or experiences that they bring to the classroom.
Provide specific examples and show how this supports the characteristics
of a quality curriculum. What are some other ways or activities that
you could add to this lesson to make those meaningful connections to
students? Explain how the work asked of students in this lesson helps them
to understand how experts use important content to address problems and
how the content makes a difference in the world. If this is not evident
in the lesson plan, develop a way to incorporate this into the lesson
plan.Explain how the work asked of st
udents in this lesson plan
supports them in becoming thinkers and problem solvers, often drawing on
methods and practices of experts. If this is not evident, devise a way
to make it part of the lesson.Evaluate why you may or may not think the assessments in the
lesson are the right type to use to measure the learning objectives. Determine how to refine and revise your instructional plans for
the next time you teach this lesson based on the information provided in
the results of the assessment. Explain how the assessments provide students with multiple means
of representation, expression, and engagement. If this is not evident
in the lesson plan, how might you alter it to include these variations?
See page 76 of your text for further support.
You have two options in completing this task:
Write a two- to three-page paper (not including the title or references pages).
You must utilize one scholarly source in addition to the text to support your assertions. Here is an example of the Week 2 Written Assignment option.(Will be attached)
Develop an eight- to ten-slide PowerPoint presentation (not including the title or references slide).
You must utilize one scholarly source in addition to the text to support your assertions.Here is an example of the Week 2 Presentation option. (Will be attached)