Ellington Academy Lesson Plans
Mrs. Rhoades, Seminar
Week of Jan. 27th – 31st
Desired Outcomes
Objectives:
Build community in the classroom.
Identify students’ goals for college and career-readiness
Define and differentiate between a hope, fear, and expectation.
Identify personal strengths, goals, and fears
Essential Questions: How does technology help us see the world?
What does it mean to be college and career ready? How has this changed over time? What do you want to be when you’re older? What are your strengths and interests as a student, person, and worker?
Assessment of Learning
Small- and whole-group discussion; signaling; monitoring students’ progress during activities; production of art projects and completion of questionnaires, warm-ups, and exit tickets.
Arts/Technology Integration Strategy
Videos and Powerpoint slides will be shown.Students will create a visual collage of their interests and strengths.
Learning Plan for the Week
Hook: What do you want to do when you grow up? Why should you go to college? What are your strengths, interests, and fears?
Direct Instruction: Emphasis will be on community-building as well as identification of personal goals. The teacher will provide information about wealth as it relates to education, provide instructions on all activities, and model how to complete the Possible Selves questionnaires.
Guided Practice: Students will work in groups to identify goals and ways to achieve them.
Independent Practice: Students will individually complete their warm-ups, exit tickets, collages, and Possible Selves questionnaires.
Closure: Students will complete a questionnaire about their hopes related to a personal strength.
Materials/Resources: Handouts will be provided. Students with computers or other devices that can access the Internet should bring them for use during scheduled research times. Students must have notebooks, something to write with, and their folder/binder for this class EVERY DAY.
Daily Schedule
Mon -
(10) Read course syllabus
(10) Four corners – goals
(15) Syllabus – questions? What do you want to learn?
(15) Class rules & CHAMPS
Tues –
(15) Warm-up: Think-pair-share about different graphs comparing wealth and education
(10) Video: Shift Happens
(5) Think-pair-share: college goals
(25) Article: Reasons to Get a College degree & exit ticket
Weds –
(15) Warmup
(5) Introduction to Possible Selves
(10) Think-pair-share: fear of the future vs I have a dream
(10) Brainstorming: what are your strengths, interests & dreams?
(rest of hour) Art activity: collage
Thurs –
Complete collage
Fri –
(15) WU: Hope / expectation / fear
(rest of hour) Questionnaire: individual strength, learner
Mrs. Rhoades, Seminar
Week of Jan. 27th – 31st
Desired Outcomes
Objectives:
Build community in the classroom.
Identify students’ goals for college and career-readiness
Define and differentiate between a hope, fear, and expectation.
Identify personal strengths, goals, and fears
Essential Questions: How does technology help us see the world?
What does it mean to be college and career ready? How has this changed over time? What do you want to be when you’re older? What are your strengths and interests as a student, person, and worker?
Assessment of Learning
Small- and whole-group discussion; signaling; monitoring students’ progress during activities; production of art projects and completion of questionnaires, warm-ups, and exit tickets.
Arts/Technology Integration Strategy
Videos and Powerpoint slides will be shown.Students will create a visual collage of their interests and strengths.
Learning Plan for the Week
Hook: What do you want to do when you grow up? Why should you go to college? What are your strengths, interests, and fears?
Direct Instruction: Emphasis will be on community-building as well as identification of personal goals. The teacher will provide information about wealth as it relates to education, provide instructions on all activities, and model how to complete the Possible Selves questionnaires.
Guided Practice: Students will work in groups to identify goals and ways to achieve them.
Independent Practice: Students will individually complete their warm-ups, exit tickets, collages, and Possible Selves questionnaires.
Closure: Students will complete a questionnaire about their hopes related to a personal strength.
Materials/Resources: Handouts will be provided. Students with computers or other devices that can access the Internet should bring them for use during scheduled research times. Students must have notebooks, something to write with, and their folder/binder for this class EVERY DAY.
Daily Schedule
Mon -
(10) Read course syllabus
(10) Four corners – goals
(15) Syllabus – questions? What do you want to learn?
(15) Class rules & CHAMPS
Tues –
(15) Warm-up: Think-pair-share about different graphs comparing wealth and education
(10) Video: Shift Happens
(5) Think-pair-share: college goals
(25) Article: Reasons to Get a College degree & exit ticket
Weds –
(15) Warmup
(5) Introduction to Possible Selves
(10) Think-pair-share: fear of the future vs I have a dream
(10) Brainstorming: what are your strengths, interests & dreams?
(rest of hour) Art activity: collage
Thurs –
Complete collage
Fri –
(15) WU: Hope / expectation / fear
(rest of hour) Questionnaire: individual strength, learner