Hello, All!
For those of you who are just joining in and didn't read my little bio, my dream is to become an English teacher, or a aclaimed writer -- whichever comes first. So for my SEDU 183 class, I had to create a lesson plan for a class I would be teaching. I chose to create an amusing, interactive writing review powerpoint on the topic of aphostrophes, because let's me honest, many people don't know how to use them correctly. So feel free to flip through the powerpoint and see if your knowledge of the aphostrophe is correct!
When first told what the project was about (Create a PowerPoint lesson plan for your students) I thought, "This would be a breeze!" But after Mr. Smith informed us we had to use PennDot to pick the lesson we where to present. I hate PennDot. It made little to no sense, and I felt really restricted even though I already knew what I wanted to teach my peers. So that was not my favorite part, but the rest of the project totally was!! I had fun putting together the varying answers and picking the pictures that correleated with whether the student's chocie was right or wrong. Truely I chose those pictures to amuse myself, I feel like the teacher needs to make the lesson fun for themselves to have a better attitude to teach! I enjoyed the project and just made me even more sure that I want to be a teacher, even though PennDot was a deal breaker, I got over it. I believe my love for writing shows through in the PowerPoint because I added my own fun elements and silly sentences that makes the topic even more fun to learn, and keep those rules in the student's head.
But you know, PowerPoints are very helpful in the classroom! Use mine for example, you can have the students interact with the lesson in order for them to learn more. No one wants to sit in a hard desk and be lectured to in a monotone voice. PowerPoints are a great way to get the class up and talking, and to help them learn more in different ways whether by adding videos, links, pictures, diagrams and much more to the PowerPoint.
So don't think that PowerPoints are no good, and can only be used to lecture! They are fun and interactive, and hey, I add some fun stuff in there to entertain myself as well as the calss! Leave a comment below to let me know what you have to say, and click my sign out to send me an e-mail asking any questions or telling me what you want to hear.
Till next time,
-SAS
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