ASSIGNMENT

After the college student will collaborate with his/her cooperating classroom teacher in order to complete the following assignment:

1.      Choose a book to share with the elementary students in your field placement classroom.  Talk with your cooperating teacher for suggestions of an appropriate book and objectives.

2.      Create a lesson plan that focuses on specific literacy objectives.

3.      Include a computer-generated concept map activity in the lesson; you may either create the concept map as a class or you may have students do it on their own depending on the age of the children.  Again, talk with the cooperating teacher as well about the availability of a computer lab with Kidspiration downloaded onto the computers.  You may need to do a class one in the classroom.

4.      Implement the lesson with the students.

5.      Write a summary of the children’s book used with the students.

6.      Write a two-page reflection on the use of the computer-generated concept map commenting on the difficulty or ease of implementing the concept map as well as student reception of the computer software package.

7.      Submit to the professor the lesson plan, the summary of the book, the reflection paper of the teaching experience, the teacher sample of the Kidspiration concept map, and several student samples of the Kidspiration concept map.