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FINAL PRESENTATION
Susan FindlayTED 8700/Spring 2013
ME
○ Library Media Aide Falls City Middle/High School○ BS in Elementary Education○ Will complete my MS in El Ed with Library Media in the fall of 2013○ Married to husband Jeff, with 3 children, Elle, Jack,
and Hayden
Falls City Public SchoolsMission Statement
Falls City Public Schools Mission is to inspire our students to become innovative, resourceful, resilient, and responsible citizens.
http://www.fctigers.org/vnews/display.v/SEC/www.fctigers.org
21st Century Skills
The goal for this project was to introduce 21st Century skills to the classroom with lessons using Reading/Critical Thinking, Writing/Communication, and Technology/Creativity strategies.
● 6TH Grade● Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder● Other Help Impaired● Post Traumatic Stress Disorder● Speech Articulation● Has an 8 year old sister and lives with his Dad● Loves Ninjago and Graphic Novels
21st Century Goals for Taylor
● Create new and worthwhile ideas
● Develop, implement and communicate new ideas to others effectively
● Interpret information and draw conclusions based on the best analysis
● Identify and ask significant questions that clarify various points of view and lead to better solutions
● Listen effectively to decipher meaning, including knowledge, values, attitudes and intentions
● Demonstrate ability to work effectively and respectfully with diverse teams
Lesson 1 - Reading/Critical ThinkingMarven of the Great North Woods
This lesson was an introduction to the book Marven of the Great North Woods by Kathryn Lasky
His objective was to make inferences from the text using anunderstanding of word relationships and meanings to drawconclusions and solve problems.
-Taylor went through the illustrations to predict outcomes-Used vocabulary flashcards from text-Listened to the story and followed along in the text-Completed a worksheet on problem solving
NE State Language Arts Standards
LA 6.1.5.C - Select and apply knowledge of context clues(e.g. word phrase, sentence, paragraph clues and re-reading) and text features (e.g. glossary, headings,subheadings, indexes, tables, maps, charts)
LA 6.1.6.0 - Use examples and details to make inferences or logical pre
Lesson 2 Writing/CommunicationPersonal Narrative
Objective is that he will be able to use knowledge and discussions to generate and develop ideas to write a personal narrative
-Read the text Marven of the Great North Woods as an introduction to personal narratives
-We discussed narrative writing as when a storyteller (narrator) describes an event or series of events which can either be fiction or non-fiction
-We wrote out the characteristics of a personal narrativeCharacter-what do they look like? sound like?Setting-where is it? what time?Plot-sequence of events in storyChange-what did the characters learn? how did they change?
-Using a planning sheet create their focus for own personal narrative
NE State Language Arts Standards
LA 6.1.5.b - Relate new grade level vocabulary toprior knowledge and use in situations.
LA 6.1.6.e - Summarize, analyze, synthesize informational text using main ideas and supportingdetails.
LA 6.2.2.c - Write considering typical characteristicsof the selected genre (e.g. biography, report, businessmemo, poem, essay, email, podcast)
Lesson 3 Technology/CreativityComic Book Creator
The objective of this lesson was for Taylor to usetechnology to express his personal narrative throughvisual storytelling in a fun and creative way.
-Using his comic planning sheet Taylor mapped out his story-He learned how to format Comic Creator and chose his six frame comic strip-Using the images, captions and the speech and thought bubbles he created his comic template-Printed, colored and shared his story with his classmates
NE State Language Arts Standards
LA 6.1.6.c - Summarize narrative text using understanding of characters, setting, sequence of events,plots, and theme.
LA 6.1.6.p - Respond to text verbally, in writing, orartistically.
LA 6.3.3.c - Interact and collaborate with others in learning situations by contributing questions, information, opinions, and ideas using a variety ofmedia and formats.
REFERENCESLasky, L. (1997). Marven of the great north woods. (1st ed.). New York: Harcourt
(2011). Framework for 21st century skills. (2011). [Print Photo]. Retrieved from http://www.p21.org/overview/skills-framework