My group is doing our project on the Adolescence at War unit. We have met a few time outside of class already to get things moving along. They first time we met up we came up with ideas and strategies that we could do in our group teach. There was a lot of great ideas thrown about and we have settles on four lessons and three homework assignments. There will be homework that is done with facebook and then the other homework is mainly reading and preparing themselves for the activities and lessons that will be done in class. The lessons we have planned are still be worked out a little. We all are working on a lesson and getting the lesson plan done and coming up with standards and examples for the lesson. We met up last week when we all made a rough draft of all the lesson plans to talk about what we came up with so far. We each talked about the one that we did and got some feedback from each other. Cara and Noelle decided to combine their lessons because they tied together really well. When we met in class on Wednesday we talked about how we should all get as much done with the lesson plan as we can before it will be finalized and have the standards and examples down by this coming Wednsday. We are all emailing each other our lesson plans this weekend and the standards and examples so we can all see what exactly is going on. We will give each other feedback on the lessson plans and then once everyone looked over everyone else's lesson plans we will all finalize them. Noelle started on the syllabus and the rubric and Cara started to the lesson plan for facebook. We will be talking about essential questions next time we meet and we want to rename our unit. We will also try to finalize the syllabus and rubric. After Wednesday's class we will meet a couple times again. We will need to make sure everything for the packet is together and make sure we have all the homework and sheets altogether. We are trying very hard to make this group teach fun and we have an interesting way that we will be running the class. Let's just say you will not be yourselves.....
I am excited to get more done for the group teach and I am excited to do the lessons we have planned for class because I think they all will encourage great discussion!
