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Christina Goodwin September 26, 2011 Classroom Management

Lesson Plan Lesson plans serve as curriculum instructions and are used for planning the curriculum for the day, week, and year. My cooperating teacher Mrs. Steward at Blackburn Elementary keeps her lesson plan book opened and on table by board this way she can access it easy. Lesson plans are a way to organize, plan, and implement curriculum. Lesson plans organize the teacher’s day and keeps them on track. Mrs. Steward refers to her lesson plan between each subject, she looks to see if she is on time for each subject and what lesson is next. Students are always leaving and coming into the class and the lesson plan book allows her to track what the students have missed. She also teaches with a special education teacher and they compare lesson plans to make sure they are teaching the same curriculum at the same time. Mrs. Steward uses her lesson book to plan her lessons two weeks in advance. The curriculum for the week is planned with third grade teachers at their team meetings. When the third grade teachers plan, they keep in mind their students and adjust the lesson plan to serve their students better. Mrs. Steward has to adjust the lessons she teaches because of the lessons are interpreted with students leaving in the middle of a lesson. Some of the time she adjusts by eliminating the activity that goes with the lesson or limits the time spent on the activity. She tells the students a lot that they will have to finish activity later. The school I observe at the curriculum is already planned out for the school year and was planned out 5 years in advance. The teachers just have to plan out how they are going to implement the curriculum that week. They refer back to last school year and compare what worked and what didn’t work. Mrs. Steward has two lesson plan books on her desk, one is for the current year and the other is from the previous year and she refers to both though out the day. An example of the way she lays out her lesson plan book so she can implement the curriculum is: Week of September 19-23, Reading Bumble bee, Graphic organizer. Science: Magnets. Math: subtraction, play sparkle. Writing: I like to eat my apples with. Lesson plans are a way to organize, plan, and implement curriculum. However, I noticed that lesson plans serve as a guide. Mrs. Stewards doesn’t have a lesson plan mapped out for each lesson with step by step instruction. She refers to the previous year and uses her lesson plan book to help map out each week. I have never seen a formal lesson plan for lesson with objectives, standards, or assessments.