Technology being used in classrooms but sometimes technology
being used within an inclusion class makes learning for those students with disabilities,
just a little bit easier. Having worked in a special education classroom all year
I have seen what technology can do for these students and how much easier
learning becomes. My lesson is based on parts of speech focusing on verbs,
nouns, and adjectives. Each of these has a corresponding video that will be
played on the smart board. Before they view the videos they will be handed a
graphic organizer that helps them see the difference between verbs, adjectives,
and nouns. The videos that are provided will be shown on the SmartBoard and will
have the students active. Even if their disabilities prevent them from
participating in the songs, I have personally seen students get more excited
simply because it involves music. Music is an engaging form of technology that
can be used in any classroom to the teacher’s advantage.
VERBSNOUNS
ADJECTIVES
After
this review of nouns, verbs, and adjective, they students will read a short
story and I will ask the “who, what, where, when, how” questions and also ask
them to identify when they are using nouns, adjectives, and verbs. On their individual
IPad or computers the students will use a Blog to answer my questions as we go.
To meet the needs of my students, voice recognition such a Dragon Naturally Speaking
in order for these students to participate in the blog. These blogs can be
answer with simple few word sentences, for such a young age of learning this is
will be easier to have the students answering the question while learning
technology at a young age.
After
this section, the students will go on this website to create a madlib.
This website allows the students to enter their own nouns, verbs, and
adjectives and creates a funny story. This allows them to use what they learned
and to create fun stories. These stories may not always make sense but as a few
volunteers read them, I will ask for a better suggestion of what they could use
in these stories. The students really enjoy these stories and for the fact that
they will all most likely choose a different story, they will all have an individual
touch to them. What is also great about these stories is that the students will
not feel like it is work but rather they are learning while having fun in a
student centered environment.
I will
have each student print out their stories and from there, whether it be just in
class or continued as homework, I will have them create an illustration of part
of their story. This will give them the opportunity to see the nouns, verbs,
and adjectives on paper rather than just hearing the words. On this picture I
will want them to label the parts of speech that they are trying to represent.
This
lesson can be used to any type of classroom. I think that it is a great way to
enhance an inclusion classroom because it allows for so many different things
to be done whether it be to use Dragon Naturally Speaking, or having everyone
simply on a computer using technology to their advantage. It is a lesson that
get the students involved and enjoying learning about English, or at least I
would hope so. This allows for the inclusion students to right alongside of the
other students.
Some of
the adaptions that I would make outside of having them potentially using Dragon
Naturally Speaking or giving them more time to work on their artistic element
would be to give them a graphic organizer that is color coded and completely filled
in with simpler terms and examples. Another adaptations that I could use is
have lists of nouns, verbs, and adjective printed out for these students so
that they have it readily available for them when needed.
I truly
do think that the technology in this lesson plan that I created will help the
students, both inclusion and regular education, to get more out of the lesson.
The videos will give them a catching song for them to remember and the fill in
the blank activity will make them have to think of the uses of the words and
come up with their own words to use rather than me telling them what a noun,
verb, and adjective is and what it can do to a story.
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