Jevon HayesCI 350

ASSURE

I decided that I was going to use the ASSURE method in my lesson plan with the group

of 1st grade children in the special education class. The goal is to teach the children the months of

the year. At first I am going to analyze my students. I have young children in the first grade and

typically they will range from the ages of six to seven. The gender of the class is ten boys and

seven girls and also I will be dealing with a culture difference of seventy percent white, twenty

percent black and ten percent Hispanic. I don’t think that culture will play a specific importance

yet because I believe that the children are too young to be fully socialized into different norms,

kids are just kids at this young age. The learning style will have to be at a slower than normal

tempo because these children are in special education and also I have seven children with

ADHD.

According to Dale’s Cole experience people remember twenty percent of what they hear

and ten percent of what they read. When it comes to visuals, people remember thirty percent of

what they see and fifty percent of what they hear and see at the same time. When it comes to

writing and saying what they do, there is a seventy percent remembrance, and when they say

something as they are doing it, people remember ninety percent. Knowing those percentages can

help a teacher plan out their lesson plan for the benefit of the student.

The objective is the children will know their months, and I want to give a time period of a

week to learn. My audience is my seventeen students I will be teaching, and once again, the

behavior of the class is to be able to describe and categorize the months of the year. The

conditions will be done by me separating the months by the four seasons, winter, spring, summer

and fall. Within each of the seasons, with their months, I will provide a PowerPoint slide show

with a specific item that helps describe the month, for example with November there will be

multiple colorful pictures of turkeys, and December will have pictures of Santa Claus with his

little elf helpers. Winter will be day 1, spring will be day 2, summer will be day 3, and fall will

be day 4. As I go through these slides I want to provide the children with each of their own

posters and have the months already labeled and let them draw along as they describe to me what

each picture is and maybe have them tell me why that picture is there.

Day 5 will be the day the children do it over again but with all of the months and they

will get the characters to go with each month. The degree in accuracy will be to go over the

month in one week and I want the children to be able to tell me the months and place them in the

season they belong too. The kids will be able to get into groups to work together. At the end of

this the students will create a YouTube video that has items that describes each month for a more

creative assignment that shows me they know their months. I want to expect one hundred percent

but will go as low as seventy-five.

Selecting my three M’s, I will want something that is simple and straight to the point that

is why I chose to use the slide show that I will create, also I will provide the posters for the

assignment at the end so they can show me what they learned for the media. The method is to

try to help them stick the images of each month in their head so when they see the image they

will be able to recall the month. I could get a bigger poster board and make my items that

represent each month and let them place them in order by month all working together as a team

as I monitor them and make sure they are all engaging in the activity.

When utilizing the media it will be teacher centered since I will be in control of the slide

show but the materials being used will be centered on the students. If I feel like that wouldn’t

work then I could have students walk to the big poster calendar and place the item they have with

the correct month. Since there are more students than months this would be another opportunity

to let them work together and collaborate to figure out what goes where. I would definitely go

over this plan with other teachers and see what they think about the idea and also get some

feedback from the veteran teachers and try to seek advice from the principle or vice principle.

I would prepare the learners by somewhat tricking them into thinking that we have some

kind of boring handout and that we are just going to write down the months of the year and tell

them what I expect out of them. Then I would show them my true intentions and pull out the

materials, I would hope it would excite the children that we aren’t doing boring work and maybe

they would show me more motivation to interact with the assignment. I would evaluate and

revise the material after getting the opinions and intake from the other teachers and hopefully

they would will give me useful information that would help me teach the children and if a week

is too short I could extend it to a week and a half or two weeks and just go over the material

slower and have the kids teach me what they have learned after every season.