Unit 3: Lesson Planning to Foster Diversity and Inclusion

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What to Know

One of the best ways to show you furthered your learning is by taking the knowledge you gained, and implementing it in the context of the course. Our purpose was to learn how to create inclusive and diverse learning environments through read alouds. Taking what you have learned about inclusion, child development, culturally responsive teaching, and diversity in books and literacy, you will be creating a lesson that incorporates all of these components.

Digital Journal

Here is the link again for the digital journal. It is the same link as from Units 1 and 2. The last page of this journal is meant for the last activity, to create a lesson plan. You can use the template attached, or create your own lesson template. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ndntx1CDVnvXw0ql4JDPV6x3BCO5Cykq_BqYdpB0qis/copy

Creating a Lesson Plan

For our last activity, you will be creating a reading lesson based on what we have learned throughout this mini-course. Below are some resources you can use to help you create your lesson. The goal for this unit is to reflect on what we have learned about inclusion and diversity through books. Be sure that your lesson is about 45-minutes, and is literacy based. There should be an aspect of a whole-class read aloud.

File:The Journey to Teacher- Facilitating Communication Skills in Preservice Teachers to Build Trust, Learn about Students, and Create Literacy Lessons Article.pdf
File:Technological and pedagogical support for pre-service teachers’ lesson planning Article.pdf

References

Janssen, Knoef, M., & Lazonder, A. W. (2019). Technological and pedagogical support for pre-service teachers’ lesson planning. Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 28(1), 115–128.

Morphis, Elizabeth, A. (2020). The Journey to Teacher: Facilitating Communication Skills in Preservice Teachers to Build Trust, Learn about Students, and Create Literacy Lessons. English Leadership Quarterly, 42(3), 7–11.