Internship #5

Projects Continued

Randy

Project title: Character Counts

Project description: I will be teaching every class I intern for, preschool, first, second and fourth grade, all about the character of honesty. The entire school of Warren-Walker Elementary has a program that assigns a characteristic for each month, meaning that during each month the students are supposed to focus and practice on the given characteristic. For example, the month of January is given "self discipline", while the month of February is "honesty". Although, January is almost over, so for my project I was going to teach a lesson to my students about honesty, to prepare them for the next month. I have yet to fine tune the lesson itself but I know I want to give them a hands-on experience.

Project schedule: I must figure out with the teachers the exact dates to when I can teach the lesson, but i have a vague project schedule. From today to next wednesday I will be with the preschool teacher Mrs. Songer, and the first grade teacher Mrs. Thein. I will be with Mrs. Songer from 8:30 to 11:45 when i switch to Mrs. Thein from 12:30 to 3:15. Throughout this time I will be fine tuning my lesson and making it appropriate for their age groups, then towards the end, probabaly on next monday, tuesday, or wednesday, will I teach the lesson. Starting on the next thursday the 21st, my schedule will change completely, I will switch off to help out the 2nd grade teacher, Mrs. Frans, and the 4th grade teacher, Mrs. Huff. We have yet to figure out how to spit up the time, but once again towards the end of the week will I present the enhanced lesson to the classes. It will be enhanced because the children will be a little older and can take on some more challenges.

Materials & Equipment needed: Very little equipment and materials will be needed for my lesson because my main priority is to use the kids.

Project documentation:

-How will you keep track of your work?

I have been keeping a spiral notebook and a binder in my bag to take to internship everyday so I can keep track of all my work and write down my observations. I will keep all my work relevant to my lesson plan in both this notebook and binder so I won't loose any of it.

-How will others know about it?

I do not know how others will know about my project, but I could make a hard copy of my lesson plan and post it on the internet maybe, or even hand it out at Explorer Elementary school for them to try.

-What will you have to show when internship is over?

I will have the hard copy of my lesson plan, along with many, many pictures.

If anyone has any ideas to further benefit my project please let me know in a comment, thank you :)