Planning instruction

LESSON:
My lesson was designed to teach kindergarten students about their five senses, and the correlated body part. It was important when planning my lesson, to think about how kindergarten student learn best. From the experiences I have had working with kindergarten students, I have learned that kindergarten students learn best through active participation in the lesson. In other words, students this young need to be engaged in the lesson, moving, and the lesson needs to be fun , in order to grasp their attention. When planning the instruction for my lesson, I was thinking of ways that I can teach a lesson, that would be fun for kindergarten students.  I incorporated a fun song that discusses the five senses, with this song students can move and dance as they are introduced to the lesson.

From working with students, I have observed how much young students love music, and love listening to creative learning songs. I planned to introduce the five senses song to students in the beginning of the lesson, to get them engaged into the lesson.  Planning instruction for young students (kindergarten) should always take into consideration students unique learning styles. I planned to teach this lesson through not only songs, but visuals. In the power point presentation, students will have visuals that will help guide them during the lesson, and will help them when they being assessed. The technology part of my lesson is very simple, however, I kept in mind that kindergarten students are beginning to learn about the functions of computers. I planned for students to use clip art, it is a program that will be easy enough for young students to learn, and will help them as they increase their knowledge regarding the five senses. It's important when planning instruction to prepare lessons that are age appropriate, engaging, and interesting for kindergarten students. As a future educator, I planned my instruction in a manner the will helps students learn best,and will work with their learning style to help promote a higher level of understanding.

GOALS:

The goals for this lesson reflect several levels of learning, such as visuals, audio, active participation, engagement and different guided practices that will occur as the lesson is being taught. These goals are significant because they allow students to become a part of their learning, and gets them involved in the lesson. The goals that I have prepared for  during the planning of my lesson will enhance students learning, by providing students different approaches to learning the five senses (songs, visuals, power point presentation, active participation). These goals clearly state learning outcomes and meet the needs of students, because it allow students to take control of their learning.

During the lesson students will be given the chance to point to  their five senses, hear a song regarding the five senses,  have visuals to help students who need visual support, and students are given the opportunity to discuss the five senses by whispering to their classmates, and answering questions regarding the five senses. This specific lesson and goals aligns with the national, state and local standards for kindergarten students, and allows students to learn about how the body operates, and how we rely on our five senses day to day; Examples, will be done by asking student to demonstrate how we eat, or how we see, or how we smell our food. The tecnology-enhanced instructional strategies that I applied into the lesson to help support the diverse need of learners was the use of clip art. By using clip art, students are being introduce to a computer software, and is simple enough that will allow all student to participate and become a part of their learning. In this assignment, students will copy paste a picture of each of the five senses into the correct labeled spot on the paper, and print it for assessment.

The technology resources that will be used within the context of this learning activity will be the use of computers, and the clipart software. This software will be first introduced to by the teacher, and will flow by students completing the task. The strategies that I had planned for managing students learning in a technology-enhanced environment is to allow students to to use clip art to copy-paste the a picture of their five senses in the correct labeled spot. As the educator, I will walk around assisting students who need help or have not yet mastered the use of clip art.  The role of the educator at this time will be to scaffold students who need additional instruction in the clip art software.