Ah, I'm finally finished. This week has been a very busy one. I have enjoyed reading the chapters and articles this week, but I had some trouble with the lesson plan. I am not very familiar with the 5 E's strategy. It has been 13 years since I graduated from college, and I am guessing that this is a newer approach to lesson planning. Honestly, I found the lesson plan template very repetitive and time-consuming. I cannot imagine using this template for all of my lesson plans in 5 different subject areas. I look forward to reading about how others use this format in planning lessons.
The lesson I used for this week's assignment is one that I have used before. We worked on this activity in a district cohort in which I participated. There were many things I had to add to the lesson plan, though. I chose this particular activity because it is a standard that we will be working on very soon.
Lisa, I agree that the lesson plan template is time-consuming. I don't see myself using the entire template but will use certain portions of it to organize my thoughts. I have been teaching for 10 years and I think that after awhile teachers think about all of the components that go into a lesson but don't necessarily write it all down. I wonder how the template can be simplified?
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I graduated from Auburn in 2004 and the 5E format was used for most of our lessons, especially in science. I really enjoy using that format. I do agree that doing the methodology and the 5E's was a little bit redundant. When I do my lesson plans, I have a small box to fill in for each subject. While I think through all of the details that I had to write for the lesson plan, I do not have to write these down on a daily basis. I did find that the plan took a very long time to complete and would be very hard to use for every lesson. However, having completed National Boards, this detailed plan is/was a HUGE help to go through the thought process when designing a lesson.
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