InTASC Model Core Teaching Standard #10: Leadership and Collaboration
The teacher seeks appropriate leadership roles and opportunities to take responsibility for student learning, to collaborate with learners, families, colleagues, other school professionals, and community members to ensure learner growth, and to advance the profession.
April 2014
For EDU/HUS 325 Social Studies and the Project Approach for the Young Child, the final project required a site visit to work with children, ranging from ages pre-k to 3rd grade, to present a complete lesson plan on a subject that could be taught in a social studies unit. I chose to visit a story hour at the local library which is meant for children ages pre-k to kindergarten. The lesson I created was about community and geography. I did this by connecting the children to their home towns and counties.
I felt that I should include the project under the tenth teaching standard because this was actually my very first time ever working with children. At the time of taking this class, I did not know anyone in the local school system that I could ask or talk to, to see if I could do a lesson plan in their classroom. After talking with a few customers at the restaurant that I worked at, they suggested I go to the local library and work with Ms. Amy. Ms. Amy works in the children's library at Camden Public Library and hosts a plethora of amazing workshops, camps, and regularly scheduled story hours. I went in, not knowing what to expect when I asked Ms. Amy if I would be able to host one of the story hours, to engage with the children and hopefully try and teach them something about social studies. She was so excited to help, give me advice, and let me lead my very own lesson. She was so supportive and I was and will always be so eternally grateful for all of her help. During this project I was also able to learn and talk with the families, make connections to more people in the community, and to talk about community to our youngest learners. I learned so much from this experience, just some basics of how to talk with children, engage with them on their level, help them problem solve, and explore their own curiosities and creativities. It was a wonderful experience I will not soon forget.
Below is the lesson plan and reflection I wrote in April of 2014 for EDU/HUS 325 Social Studies and the Project Approach for the Young Child.
For EDU/HUS 325 Social Studies and the Project Approach for the Young Child, the final project required a site visit to work with children, ranging from ages pre-k to 3rd grade, to present a complete lesson plan on a subject that could be taught in a social studies unit. I chose to visit a story hour at the local library which is meant for children ages pre-k to kindergarten. The lesson I created was about community and geography. I did this by connecting the children to their home towns and counties.
I felt that I should include the project under the tenth teaching standard because this was actually my very first time ever working with children. At the time of taking this class, I did not know anyone in the local school system that I could ask or talk to, to see if I could do a lesson plan in their classroom. After talking with a few customers at the restaurant that I worked at, they suggested I go to the local library and work with Ms. Amy. Ms. Amy works in the children's library at Camden Public Library and hosts a plethora of amazing workshops, camps, and regularly scheduled story hours. I went in, not knowing what to expect when I asked Ms. Amy if I would be able to host one of the story hours, to engage with the children and hopefully try and teach them something about social studies. She was so excited to help, give me advice, and let me lead my very own lesson. She was so supportive and I was and will always be so eternally grateful for all of her help. During this project I was also able to learn and talk with the families, make connections to more people in the community, and to talk about community to our youngest learners. I learned so much from this experience, just some basics of how to talk with children, engage with them on their level, help them problem solve, and explore their own curiosities and creativities. It was a wonderful experience I will not soon forget.
Below is the lesson plan and reflection I wrote in April of 2014 for EDU/HUS 325 Social Studies and the Project Approach for the Young Child.