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Professional Competency 3
Professional Competency 3 revolves around the development of lesson planning that is appropriate for the level the students are at, meaning that it pushes students to learn without being too complex for them, while also ensuring the development of the required competencies. As teachers, it is imperative that we learn how to create lessons that students will be able to learn from without becoming frustrated at the complexity. This PC also looks at incorporating activities into long term plans so that students can gain a far deeper understanding of the material.
My development
I believe that I have developed this competency all throughout the third and fourth internships and have thus reached an ‘advanced’ level of mastery. I have had the opportunity to develop several lessons at different levels and have figured out how to plan according to the level of the group. I have completed the same unit in two different grades, adjusting so that the level of complexity fits the level of the students. I have also had the opportunity to create two long term lesson plans so that my students may learn and develop their competencies throughout. Additionally, I developed several lessons appropriate for grade 1 students whose first language is English rather than the English as a second language students that I have learned to cater to.
Artefacts
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The pictures with attached documents are the lesson plans, activities and final projects that I developed to teach students about the growing issue that is E-waste (electronic waste). I based myself off the article from their magazine to make sure that the level of complexity was not too high nor too low. I choose E-waste since it is something that is greatly affecting the world that these students are growing up in and I felt that it would be great for them to understand the issue and how to help reduce it. Of course, there was a lot of information about this topic and so I built it into a long-term plan that took approximately two months to completely wrap up with the final projects. Finally, I believe that I have an advanced development of this competency because students were constantly participating and remained on task throughout. During the creation of their final project, they were so focused and came up with so many creative ideas which demonstrated that they really enjoyed the way that I developed the lessons.
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The pictures with attached documents are the lesson plan, questions and plot elements that I developed in order to teach my secondary 1 students about Dracula. I read the book and came up with the questions for each chapter so that I could check for understanding since it was the first book that the students would be reading for English in high school. The plot elements document was created with the help of another English teacher who had a document with definitions of each element. Since this teacher taught secondary 5, I made sure to simplify the elements in order to not overwhelm students with information that would be too complex for them. Finally, the book would of course take more than one course to get through and so I developed this into a long-term plan. I made sure to send all the information to my CT at the end of my internship since I only had time to get through 3 chapters. Once again, students showed interest in reading the book and were always very focused on completing the reading because I created a Kahoot for every chapter we got through. Students really enjoyed Kahoot and I found that it was the perfect way to make sure that students were focused and diligent in their reading and filling out of the information from their documents.
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The above pictures with attached documents are from a lesson that I completed with my grade 1 students during my final internship in Listuguj, Quebec. I started off with the development of a Power Point about many things that happen in spring to educate my students about a season I had noticed they did not understand hardly anything about. I incorporated constant opportunity for participation along with the use of songs to dance along to as students at this age level respond really well to such lessons. In the end, I planned out a spring puzzle scavenger hunt for the students to wrap up the lesson in a fun and interesting way to maximize retention of the lesson.
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