Mrs. Turner Teaches

Ever since I can remember I have wanted to be a teacher. While life happened and I detoured for a while, the love of teaching has never left me. I always imagined I would be an elementary school teacher and LOVED school when I was a kid. Life passed by and led me to my current job as an Early Childhood SPED, which I didn't know if I would enjoy. I was intimidated but I honestly love what I do and who I work with. Creating lesson plans for my students now is a piece of cake because I know their abilities. Now that I am currently back in school, creating a unit and lesson plans for typical developing kindergartners is SO different. It is going to be a bit of a learning curve for myself but I am trying hard to create something I could truly adapt and use in my classroom now. I have always have a love for science. This is why I chose my unit of Kindergarten Science, Weather and Seasons. What I hope for my future students to get out of this lesson is that they will understand and be ab...

Teacher:   Tiffany Turner Class:   Kindergarten Science Unit: Exploring Pumpkins Lesson Title:   Pumpkin Life Cycle Duration: 1 lesson, 30 minutes Objectives: ·            Given a lesson on the life cycle of a pumpkin the student will be able to tell you how a pumpkin grows with 100% accuracy. Standard(s): Materials: Glue, Scissors, Crayons Bloom’s Taxonomy: Anticipatory Set: When students walk into class, have a pumpkin sitting in front of class. Have students come to carpet (or large group area) and have the question: How is a pumpkin grown? on the board.   Have students take guesses on how a pumpkin is grown. Read, From Seed to Pumpkin By Wendy Pfeffer.  Teaching: Input: Show students what a pumpkin looks like and what pumpkin seeds look like. Name the life cycle of a pumpk...

A  performance task  is any learning activity or  assessment  that asks students to perform to demonstrate their knowledge, understanding and proficiency. ( https://blog.performancetask.com/what-is-a-performance-task-part-1-9fa0d99ead3b ) Formative assessment  refers to a wide variety of methods that teachers use to conduct in-process evaluations of student comprehension, learning needs, and academic progress during a lesson, unit, or course. ( https://www.edglossary.org/formative-assessment/ ) Formative tasks are good for seeing growth over time while performance tasks (or assessments) are good for assessing the mastery of the unit or tasks. An example of a formative assessment is  student and teacher discussions, journals and homework. An example of a performance task is tests such as teacher created or multiple choice and capstone projects.