education+and+Lesson+Plans



Having attended a small school I find it extremely imprtant to buid lasting student-teacher relationships so as to become a better educator. These are just some ideas I have for lesson plans that would keep students actively learning while also being open and honest with the teacher,

Lesson Plans: - As an educator it is my job to teach my students the curriculum that is provided to me by the state, however i also have an obligation to ready my students for life after high school and that is arguably more important than what we will learn from our text books. My first lesson plan of every year would start of by righting a qoute on the board, something that I like to live my life by. I would then ask my students to follow suit, by writing down a qoute that they like and put it into a box. Each day from then on I would put a qoute from the box on the board so as to remind them of why we are attending school and give them an extra boost every day. Following this exercise I would pass out a goal sheet, with slots for: short term goals, how to accomplish them, life dreams, and steps to work towards those. These goals would be between the students and I and I would reconvene with the students individually throughout the year so as to check their status and aid them in any way I can.

-As an aspiring english teacher I know that not everyone enjoys reading and that it can be difficult to write about somehting your not interested in. Beacuse of this every assignment would consist of something you are interested in, however once a topi is used it cannot be revisited. The first essay I would require of a student would be that of an interest paper, 1 page long, depicting an specific interest that you have and how/why you participate or enjoy it. These would anonymous. I would then redistribute one paper to each student and ask them to do a research paper on this project. Later on in the semester these papers would again be redistributed and used to discover an emerging argument within the field, the students would then be required a 3 page paper taking an informed side on the argument. Finally at the end of the semester the papers would then be redistributed to the class to be used as the topic of an analysis paper grading the argument of the previous author. I would like to clarify that these papers would always be redistributed anonymously so as to keep students privacy my top concern.