C2: Making Content Comprehensible to Students

C2: Making Content Comprehensible to Students

Introduction:

Use the following paragraph in your introduction to describe the teacher and setting you were in and how you observed her lesson planning and implementation of the lesson.

Classroom Setting: During the month’s of______and______200_, I was an intern in Mr. /Mrs. /Ms. ______classroom at ______School. Mr. /Mrs. /Ms. ______room was decorated with ______and ______. It was very ______and provided a ______environment in which the students could ______. There were ____ boys and _____ girls in Mr. /Mrs. /Ms. ______classroom. Of these students, ____ were students with special needs. The students with special needs received additional help from ______for ____ hours a day.

Bullet One: Explains the importance of instruction that is accurate and logical.

• Does the teacher communicate content clearly and accurately? Is this done equitable for females and males, students of different ethnic groups, students of different economic groups, students with exceptionalities, students of limited English proficiency?
• Explain why it is important for the teacher to make the content comprehensible to students.
• Why is it important for a teacher to take into account for differences in females and males, students of different ethnic groups, students of different economic groups, students with exceptionalities, students of limited English proficiency?
• Evidence????

Bullet Two: Describes how content can be made understandable to students.

• Describe various ways in which a teacher can make the content comprehensible to students
• .In lessons that are not teacher-directed, has the teacher structure the learning environment or process in a way that enables students to understand the content?
• Are students generally engaged with the content?
• Evidence?????

Bullet Three: Describe how the use of technology can make content understandable to students

• Describe how using different technology in the classroom can make it easier for students to understand the directions or the content that the teacher is trying to describe.
• Evidence????

Summary:

• Explain why it is important for the teacher to make the content comprehensible to students.
• Describe various ways in which a teacher can make the content comprehensible to students.
• Why is it important for a teacher to take into account for differences in females and males, students of different ethnic groups, students of different economic groups, students with exceptionalities, students of limited English proficiency?

I thought______

I realized______

When Mr./Mrs./Ms______

I became aware ______

Ideas for Evidence:

• Overheads
• Power points
• Guided Notes
• Webquests
• Supplemental materials
• Projects/assignments
• Visual Aids