Un repaso, a PowerPoint & grammar review lesson for Spanish 3.
Describe:
This artifact is a lesson plan I created for an educational technology class in my master’s degree program, I also used the lesson plan with my Spanish 3 classes this year. I chose this artifact because it represents the direction in which I am moving with my teaching and learning: toward technology. This lesson is a culmination of a month long review process at the beginning of Spanish 3. The students have been reviewing all materials learned in the previous 2 years of studying Spanish in order to begin with the new materials. In this lesson, students were broken up into heterogeneous groups. I used the jigsaw method and asked each group to become an expert in a given grammatical area. Each group was then asked to create a PowerPoint presentation to “teach” the other groups and to demonstrate what they had learned about the particular subject.
Analyze:
This artifact is representative of where I see my teaching in the future. It is my first formal attempt at teaching a Spanish lesson with technology integrated into the objective, the lesson, and the evaluation. I am quite excited by the prospects of where this will take me.
Appraise:
The lesson was a valiant first effort at technology integration into my curriculum. There were problems with the technology but I planned ahead and they did not deter from the lesson. I couldn’t get access to the projector for the introductory lesson on PowerPoint so I met with individual groups to teach the basics of PowerPoint. This went fine because others continued to work on their slide planning and I could individualize the instruction according to each student’s experience with PowerPoint. One issue I ran into which I wasn’t expecting was that the students embellished their presentations with so many sound effects and moving effects that each presentation suffered from way to many bells and whistles, literally.
Transform:
I know I will teach again with this lesson plan. I also know it will go better next time just because I have done it before. By next year our school will have more technology available to teachers and students because of a grant. We will be more likely to a have all the access to computers and the projector that we need. The next time I do this lesson I will be sure to discuss the use of sound effect and put a limit to the number of effects students are allowed to use.
Author:
Tara Cloutier
Last modified:
12/9/2003 6:00 PM (EST)
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