Overview of Teacher Implementation Plan
January 3, 2015
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Date: January 3, 2015
Name: Shirley Hough
School: Shirley Hough School-age Program
Unit Title: Taken from “The Way Home” a Korean film. This unit will compare country life to city life through the eyes of children. It will also introduce sign language as a way of communication since the grandmother in the film was a deaf mute.
Unit Abstract: The intent of this unit is to teach children about different lifestyles in the same family. It will teach them about feelings of adults and children when confronted with different ways of living. It will also address different ways to communicate with those not as fortunate as us. We will incorporate the use of sign language since the film is based on the life of a deaf mute grandmother and her grandson who can hear and speak.
http://www.JourneysThrough Film.org INTRODUCTION-THE WAY HOME
https://www.youtube.com/watch? The Way Home
Discussion will be encouraged to look at different styles of living. It will also introduce the use of sign language as part of the story. It will introduce children to different styles of living and different ways to communicate. This will also involve staff and children in talking about what type of environment they each grew up in. Different types of feelings will be addressed as children need to learn how to express themselves in different situations.
Content Areas: Based on the Pennsylvania Core Knowledge Competencies for School Age Professionals The content areas that could be targeted with this module would include” Curriculum and Learning Experiences, Assessment and Communication, Families, Schools, and Community http://www.pakeys.org/pages/getaspx?page=CBK
Content Standards Targeted/End of Cluster Benchmarks: If presented to the classroom teacher, standards that could be addressed could be addressed include:
Curriculum and Learning Experiences K2.9 C2 Use curriculum to develop clear and developmentally and individually appropriate learning outcome….
Communication/ Creative Thinking and Expression
Standard 9.3.1 We will use this standard to incorporate the use of sign language and body expressions to help communicate
Standard 5.1 C2 Learn to communicate through this process in which verbal and non verbal messages are sent, received, and processed as the basis for ongoing relationships
Standard 5.10 C2 Demonstrate the variety of ways to communicate with children and adults
If presented to directors standards that could be addressed would include:
Families, Schools, and Community and Partnerships
Standard P2 Provide and promote for communication through a variety of tools and opportunities
Standard P6 promote ways to enrich program offerings, materials, school
readiness, and transition activities in support of diverse family cultures
Taking the 2014 School-Age Learning Standards for Early Education into consideration Key Learning Areas that could be covered include:
Creative Thinking and Expression:
Standard 1.1.5 Uses nonverbal communication such as eye contact, body position, and gestures effectively
Standard 1.1.6 Attends to both verbal and nonverbal messages
Personal-Social Communications
Standard 1.3.1 Know and state independent thoughts and feelings
Standard 2.1.1 Identify, express and manage feelings
The teacher will be able to model non-verbal and verbal interactions with feelings
Targeted Grades: Adults working with children ages 6-12
How Will This Unit Be Integrated into Your Curriculum: This unit will be developed into a lesson plan that will be used by teachers/directors to educate children ages 6-12. It will take place over a month period of time with children enjoying the music of South Korea, dress of South Korea, foods, they will learn how different homes are in the city and in the country and the lifestyles of each, and ways to communicate through verbal and non-verbal skills. They will learn how to accept others for whoever they are. Sand/water materials will be introduced as well as clay to shape figures that they may imagine being in South Korea. We will incorporate different food tasting tests for the children to take advantage of. The children will be able to use body language to communicate with each other. Pictures of different emotions will be shown to the children and they can be asked how they feel emotion relates to the story between the young boy and his grandmother. Questions will be asked about his emotions when he first arrived in the country and when he had to leave his grandmother to go home to the city. We will have the children draw pictures of their homes and the homes of their grandparents and see how they compare. The students will be asked to keep a journal throughout the month and the teachers will ask the children questions. If the children can’t express themselves in writing the answers they may be able to draw their answers. They will be introduced to sign language each day and at the end of the month lesson plan the parents will be invited to see what they have learned.
Time of Implementation (how and when will the unit be implemented):
The plan for implementation for my teachers will be used in the summer of 2015.
Big Ideas: The students will be able to learn and understand that all children are not the same as far as where they live, how they communicate, what language they speak, how they dress, and foods they eat. They will be able to use graphs to chart foods they eat and foods that other families eat, they will be able to chart their calculation of how far they may live from their grandparents, and chart the different facts about living in the country and in the city.
Big Ideas: Students will understand that:
“PA Learning Standards” are the foundation for teachers’ development that are developmentally and culturally appropriate.
Ongoing assessment guides decisions about children, ways to encourage their learning and the proper tools necessary to do this.
Communication is a process for sending and receiving verbal and non-verbal messages in order to encourage positive relationships between staff and children and their families.
Effective communication should be open and occur in a communication-rich environment in order for children to thrive.
Assessment: What will the evidence of learning show?
Having the children be able to connect to their feelings about different situations, use sign language to communicate, be able to locate South Korea on a map and estimate how far they feel it is from where they live, they will be able to identify different types of foods, and different customs from South Korea. They will be able to talk about ways that they travel versus ways that people in South Korea travel where the grandmother lived.
Essential Questions to be Implemented During the Plan:
What will the children learn about cultural differences among families?
What will the children learn in ways to communicate verbally or non- verbally?
Describe your home and the home of someone that lives in a different city or country?
Children will learn the difference between a real bed and one that was in the movie for the little boy to sleep on
What would you do if you had no electricity, running water, bathrooms, stoves to cook on, and dishwashers to wash the dishes?
What would you do if you did not have a car? How would you get where you needed to go?
What are neighbors? What if you did not have neighbors?
What if there was not a Mc Donald’s, Pizza Hut, or Kentucky Fried Chicken?
What if you did not have a mailman? How would you get your mail?
What if you had no Game Boys, Nintendo, crayons, books to read,
computers, etc.
What would you do if you were lonely, sad, hungry, cikd and had no one that you could talk to?
The lessons will be done over a 4 week period. Here is a plan of how it will be taught to the children:
Sign language will be taught using a sign language book…It will be reviewed daily and when the teacher feels they are ready to learn more she will incorporate other words
Story Time--we will read books that deal with our lesson plan such as:
The Way I Feel--a book dealing with emotions
Mister Rogers---If We Were All the Same
Mister Rogers--Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
Transportation in Many Cultures
Sounds All Around Us--Sound and Hearing
Inside Mouse/Outside Mouse
City Mouse and the Country Mouse
Circle Time---we will dance to music of Korean Folktales using ribbons and musical instruments
Sand/water activity----we will use sand to create roads and integrate different types of transportation including horses, covered wagons, bikes, cars, plans
Arts & Crafts---the children will be able to draw pictures of their house, a straw house, a wood house, etc, They will also use wood craft sticks to design a home of their choice and use different types of accessories to complete the house
The children will be introduced to different types of feelings and they will draw pictures of how they feel that day
The children will write in journals answers to the questions that I ask and if they can’t write their answers they can draw them
They will do a graph when taste testing multicultural foods
The seminar helped me to develop my plan by finding resources that are available online, in libraries, and by taking a class such as this. I have struggled throughout this class and felt very inadequate in my skills to do a plan. I tried to think of the children in my setting and tried to imagine how I could get them to enjoy this as I did while I was doing it. I did not have an interest in learning about other countries but as I attended this class I found it bo be fun trying to connect different activities that would interest the children. I am very eager to begin this plan. There are so many other things that I could have incorporated in to this plan.
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