Who says you can’t teach classroom rules as part of
your curriculum? They are, it seems to me, every bit as important to the
success of our teaching as spelling and multiplication tables. Here is a lesson
plan I use every year, and have never had pushed back as inappropriate.
Remember, I teach English. If you are required to
site standards for every lesson, you may have to do some adapting for standards
in other subject areas.
Rules
Lesson Plan
Subject Area: Language
Arts
Grade Level: 9th Grade
Intervention
1.
Learning Goals
After this lesson the students will be able to:
- Name the three classroom
“Zones” as per classroom rules
- Describe the expectations
associated with the zones
- Paraphrase the one or more
rules
2.
Content Standards for this lesson:
Domain:
Reading
Strand:
Word Analysis, decoding
Word Recognition
1.1 Read aloud narrative and
expository text fluently and accurately and with appropriate pacing,
intonation, and expression.
Vocabulary
and Concept Development
1.4 Monitor expository text for
unknown words, or words with novel meanings, by using word, sentence, and
paragraph clues to determine meaning.
3.
Connection to prior learning
This
lesson is the first of three in the unit on the classroom rules.
Following lessons will cover:
·
Specific
practice of daily procedures
o Entering the room
o Re-setting desks for pairs
activities
o Gathering belongings at class
end
·
Interpreting
and applying the rules using scenarios
4.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills needed
Expected
prerequisite knowledge:
·
The
students will need to listen and take polite turns in talking
5.
Anticipated difficulties
·
Students
not on task – teacher attention and refer to the ‘No Parking Zone’ rule
·
Those
with lower reading skill will need specific support with both pronunciation and
writing.
Instructional
Sequence
1. Communicating the learning
goals to students
Use an
overhead transparency that simply says “RULES” with three clipart images that
represent the Zones
Generates
curiosity – leads to warm-up exercise
2. Instructional strategies
0 - Overhead
and students write the day’s agenda
1 - Warm-Up –
guess the three rules from the graphics – list made on the board
Engaging students, teacher preparation for framing
the rules presentation.
2 - Direct
Instruction – Pronunciation, definition and examples/synonyms
Teacher presentation and instruction connecting
full class reading aloud
3 - Pair
share – a situation of follow or not follow assigned rule
Provide practice in comprehension and in following
directions to begin and end sharing time
4 - Writing
activity – individual completion
Students paraphrase rules – teacher modeling, class
discussion, then individual writing of at least one paraphrase
5 – Class sharing
of paraphrases
Lesson closure
3.
Activities in which students will be engaged during each phase of the lesson.
1
- Pair share
2
- Listening, responding to class instruction
3
- Individual writing
4
- Class sharing
4.
Grouping of students for each phase of the lesson
Students
are assigned a partner for the pair share, then work independently and in a
whole class.
5. Materials, technology, and
other resources the teacher and students will use for this lesson.
Overhead
transparency for warm-up, agenda discussion, and pair share reports
6. Progress monitoring of
students during lesson
1 - Oral
review of pair discussions.
2 - Listening
to student responses
7.
Data Collection
1 - Writing
sheets are collected and reviewed both for participation grading and as a guide
to students needing support.
8.
Lesson closure
Class share of writing
9.
Follow-up activities, extensions, and homework
Unit continues
Evidence of Student Learning
During the
pair share response teacher will take note of the responses as written by the
scribe to assess understanding of basic concepts. Teacher will visually check
student participation.
Teacher
modeling of the paraphrase writing will show students what is expected during
the activity. Teacher proximity and assistance will help students stay on task
and assess individual ability to complete the activity.
After teaching the entire three-lesson unit on
classroom rules, I do give a quiz that COUNTS for a grade. I get good enough
results with this to keep doing it! Try it yourself; you will be surprised!
Jo
Karabasz
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