Field Experience and Practicum Essay

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Touro is a student. Student ID: Institution:

Date: Class:5 Grade:5

Language: English

Lesson Type (General, Special, or Inclusion) Subject: Adverbs

Cooperating Teacher:

Learning Goal: Students will acquire knowledge of, recognize, and apply adverbs in communication and other appropriate situations. They will also create and contrast adverbs.

Common Core Learning Standard that applies: 5

Relationship to Prior Knowledge Prior to this lesson, students learned about verbs and adverbs and were able to create and use them in compositions and sentences.

Important Words:

A term that provides additional information about a verb, an adjective, or another adverb.

Pencils, practice books, chalk, a blackboard, and a pencil

The teacher introduces the topic, adverb, and gives a basic description of the part of speech. He explains the connection between the previous work and adverbs and gives examples on the different types of adverbs in sentences and their meaning. He then places the students in groups of four for discussion and gives them ten minutes.

Lesson Plan Procedures: The teacher will introduce the topic by asking the students to read a given set of sentences with highlighted words. He will then ask them what the words have in common. The teacher will then further explain an in-depth understanding of the adverb in each sentence. He will then introduce the different types of adverbs, that is, adverbs of manner, time, place, questioning adverbs, and numerical adverbs. He will give them examples of each and ask the students to give examples as well and disperse them into new groups to discuss further.

Medial Summary: Students will be required to identify adverb from the sentences the teacher will write on the board with chalk and define the type of adverb. The teacher will ask each of them to generate adverbs from several adjectives, verbs and adverbs and use the same adverbs for comparison. The teacher will reiterate on the difference between the three. Verbs are doing words, adjectives are words that describe nouns and adverbs tell us more about the three.

Differentiated Instruction: The teacher will instruct the pupils to note down the new part of speech at the back of their exercise books with examples and the various types in addition to the previously leant parts of speeches. He will ask them to copy what he writes on the board for further revision during their spare time.

Opportunities for Practice: The teacher will ask each student to form five sentences, each with a different type of adverb they had learnt that day and pick one to generate comparison. He will be guiding and correcting them where they have gone wrong.

Final Summary: The teacher will ask questions and let the pupils answer and offer additional guidance to enable them to be creative and apply this in their daily communication with each other.

Assessment: He will go through their classroom exercise books and asses their understanding thus generate homework which he will go over in the next session to gauge their understanding and application of the topic.

Classroom Management: Pupils were able to participate and were curious to practice the application of today’s topic. The teacher gave them extra break time as a reward.

Attention to Multicultural Issues: The teacher was able to take into account the different personality and cultural background of each pupil. Teamwork and group work encouraged interaction and motivation among all pupils.