Natural Approach

Lesson Plan

July 7, 2009
Grade: Kindergarten
Theme: Animal from the Ocean
Phase: Conceptualization

Objective: Through today’s class and intervening activities, the students will identify some animals that live in the ocean. The students will recognize basis sight vocabulary from the story.

Standard #1: Oral Communication
The students listen to and use language effectively to interact verbally/non verbally in different learning strategies and critical thinking skills.
Expectations: Listens to a story, nursery rhyme, poem or song and uses pictures, drawing and /or language to express feeling, ideas, needs and values.
Skills: Respond to simple commands. Uses word phrases and/or sentences that talk about pictures that Identify animals from the ocean.

Standard #3: Reading Comprehension
The student demonstrates confidence, independence and flexibility in the strategies use of reading skills, critical thinking and the conventions of language for reading a range of simple to complex texts.
Expectations: Uses context clues and illustrations to identify details and to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words.
Skills: Recognizes basic sight vocabulary, related to animals.

Activities:
· Initial: Routine Activities. Respond to simple commands. Uses words phrases and/or sentences to talk about pictures. Identifies animals.
· Development: Introduce vocabulary, theme, concept, or new skill. Teacher reads “ocean Friends”. Oral discussions Observe pictures to express their knowledge. Color pictures. Tracing practice exercise.
· Closing: Hand-out, worksheet.

Homework:
Make a “mini-book”

Professional Organization

Belonging to a Professional Organization helps you grow as person and as a professional. You have abilities and skills as a leader to develop it to the maximum point. Also, through a professional organization, your world can expand to new horizons. Socially, you interact with new people in your life, maybe from other countries. You can exchange some ideas with colleagues that have the same interest. If we decide to participate in a professional organization, as teachers, we need to choose wisely. Choose one that challenges us as a professional and as human beings.

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My Philosophy

Ever since I was a child I wanted to be a teacher. I had a chalkboard behind my bedroom door and I use to pretend my dolls were my students. Till this day I really enjoy what I do. Teaching is the way to make a student learn any concept or conduct.

Teaching has so much value. As teachers we have “power” and we need to use it wisely. We reached many homes through the students. We need to spread positive things. Teach concepts that they never forget and make it pertinent to their lives and useful to their own environment.

I use constructivism and behaviorism methods. I strongly believe that both methods have their benefits in a teaching-learning process, if you utilize them correctly. In some classes I will make students work by themselves and let them discover their own knowledge, but some classes I need to be behaviorist and need to teach rules or other concepts. The success is to have a balance between these two methods.

I like to conduct many activities for them. They need experiences that involve learning. Activities such as: planting, field trips, recycling projects, special guest and parents in the classroom, involve them with seniors, special projects at school, games, and activities in the classroom, etc.

I am very helpful and give myself completely to my profession. I love and enjoy teaching very much. It is very satisfying when I hear a child read for the first time and seeing his face full of joy when they discover they can do it. Best of all is that it is acquired knowledge which they will take the rest of their lives and in what ever profession they chose.

I want my students to remember me as the teacher who believed in them, the one who saw something special in each of them, the teacher who changed my way of thinking and the way I saw things and. the one who changed my life for the good and made a difference. I want them to remember me as a special and unique teacher.