Micro Lesson 2

 Using Technology to Write Friendly Letters

Introduction: An interactive, student-centered approach that provides students with a meaningful and real-life purpose to compose a friendly letter by the teacher introducing themselves to the class with a presentation that shares a few details about themselves, and then directs to students to write a friendly letter in return to share similar details about themselves to the teacher.

Friendly Letter Lesson Plan

Friendly Letter Graphic Organizer (Resource Material)

Teacher Introduction Presentation

CUPS Checklist (Assessment Resource Material)

Conclusion: This lesson was designed for the teacher to begin with direct instruction and end with facilitating student learning. Direct instruction is utilized during the teacher's whole group presentation, wherein the teacher shares information about their self with the students to strengthen teacher-student relationships. It is throughout this portion of the lesson that the teacher continues to use direct instruction as students complete their graphic organizers, via Google Docs, to fill in the details from the presentation, formulate questions that each detail answers, and individually think of any questions to ask the presenter. After teaching this lesson to a group of adult learners for the purpose of the course, and observing their engagement and interest, I was extremely excited to actually teach this lesson to the group of 1st Grade students that I was placed with for student teaching. The duration of the lesson for this course was set to be an hour lesson, but I modified the duration (with the advice of my mentor teacher) of the lesson for 1st Grade students to be an hour lesson over the span of 2 days. Out of a class of 24 students, 18 students were able to complete the graphic organizers and compose their complete sentences during the first one hour lesson slot. The second one hour session the following day was spent on editing their sentences. Throughout both days, students remained actively engaged with the requirements of the lesson. Unfortunately, students were not able to begin writing their friendly letters. I concluded that in order for this lesson plan to be effectively given and completed accurately for the purpose of meeting the academic standards, that this lesson would require anywhere from three to four days, over the course of an hour each day.

Peer Reflection Survey

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Friendly Letter Lesson Plan Survey