21st century learning lessons

Mrs. Hackworth TEACHER 24 years

Engaging minds… Impacting lives…

Making a difference…

Continuing the journey…

Fatima… *hard-working, determined, self-motivated! • Heart transplant recipient • Repeated kindergarten and first grade • Struggles academically and has shown regression in

academic progress

Oak Valley Elementary…

Mission Statement… To provide educational opportunities as well as life skills which enable all students to achieve their highest potential.

My21 Reading and Critical Thinking Lesson

Goals: The learner will show comprehension through critical thinking, predictions, applying analysis and synthesis, making connections to text, self, world, and building self confidence in oral reading fluency through multiple reads.

• Teacher will read the story to students while asking

comprehension questions, predictions, and making connections.

• Students will work with partners to retell beginning, middle,

and end of story for sequencing.

• Students practice reading story aloud for fluency and will participate in a Reader’s Theater.

• Students will brainstorm ideas as a group for things kids

could sell to raise money for something to use with a later writing activity.

My21 Writing and Collaboration/Communication Lesson Goals: Students will collaborate ideas with peers and enhance writing skills by constructing sentences using alliteration/iteration to create a page for a class book while working in a newly created “Writer’s Café”.

• Teacher will read If You Give a Moose a Muffin, by Laura

Numeroff to students while charting student responses for predictions and connections.

• Begin an interactive writing lesson with students to

brainstorm ideas for remembering animal traits. “If you give (name) a (animal), then he/she will remember (animal trait).

• Students will peer edit, revise, and make final drafts to share.

My21 Digital Literacy & Creativity/Innovation Lesson Goals: Students will expand writing, creativity, and technology skills to create a sentence using alliteration/iteration in the “Writer’s Café” to be made into a digital page using a digital story telling iPad application.

• Students will listen to If You Give a Dog a Donut, by Laura

Numeroff on www.bookflix.com

“Rita the Snake”… Our class pet…

• Refer to “Rita the Snake” (class pet) and brainstorm

ideas to create their own sentence for “If you give a snake a sandwich…”

Our recipes for writing…

If you give a snake a sandwich…

he/she will___ and then he/she will…

Our final copies after peer editing…

ready to “go digital”

• Students will work on iPads using the application Sonicpics to create a digital page.

Technical talent in the works…

Reflection

What an incredible journey this has been! I never would

have imagined that my in-depth focus on one child could

open up such a realm of strategy, creativity, and innovation

without limit to share with all the children I currently work

with or will work with in the future.

I have enjoyed my 21st Century explorations and

collaborations with colleagues who have such a wide range

of expertise, all in learning more about Fatima’s needs and

how to better meet them. At the same time, listening to my

peers in this course also has given me insight to fresh ideas

and knowledge that I might use with students I have, or will

have with similar issues.

I look forward to continuing the journey with Fatima,

and those like her that will follow, in hopes of making a

difference…that is, after all, what teaching is all about.

"There is a brilliant child

locked inside every student."

Marva Collins

“What a teacher writes

on the blackboard of life

can never be erased.”

~Author Unknown