Melissa+and+Rachel+4

** Time: 30 min. **
 * Strategy Lesson Plan **


 * Co-Teachers: Melissa Hood and Rachel Sheldahl **
 * Instructional Strategy: Window Notes **


 * What standard(s) are you addressing? **

** TPA Approved Lesson Plan Template **


 * ** Desired Results ** ||  ||
 * **__Co-Teaching__: List the co-teaching style you’ll be using and why you have chosen this co-teaching method.**


 * Window notes-students will take notes on presentation of information about posture, focusing on four different categories: facts, feelings, ideas, diagram** |||| **Learning Objective: Key Understanding(s) you intend students to obtain:**

-Students will understand why practicing proper posture positively affects their singing ability Great.

-Students will understand how practicing proper posture makes them a more healthy person. Great

-Students will understand that throughout our daily lives many of us do not practice healthy posture (the repercussions of that). (NO) -Students will understand the repercussions of not practicing healthy posture. ||
 * ** Assessment Evidence ** ||  ||
 * **What do you want your students to __know__?**

- **students will know techniques to align their bodies properly** |||| __**Additional Comments:**__
 * -Students will know how to tell by looking at someone if they have correct posture or not**

- Melissa, **__wait__** until or mandate that ALL students are listening to you BEFORE you move ahead with content. Never talk over them...if you do this, you're saying that what you are saying is not important enough to you to demand their full attention in order to deliver it. Also, slow down your rate of speech. You have a lot of good things to say. And you are a fast talker (I am too). You'll have to intentionally slow yourself down so that students will have the opportunity to hear every word you say! ||
 * **__Group Accountability (Formative Evaluation)__**
 * How will you check to see whether your class has met your learning objectives?**


 * By assessing them as we progress through the hands on activities. - HOW? What will you DO to "assess" them. What does "assess them" mean? **
 * By listening in on their group discussions. What will you be listening for? ** |||| **What do you want students to be able to __do__?**


 * -Students should be able to demonstrate proper posture and alignment**
 * -Students should be able to discuss and analyze how proper posture/alignment feels**


 * Your lesson is quite tightly aligned (every element is related to another). This is good. ** ||
 * ** Learning Plan ** ||  ||
 * **What key vocabulary/language will students need to know to meet the learning objective?**


 * “Sit Bones”**
 * Posture, stance, slouch, line of access ** |||| **__ How __ will you teach this key vocabulary to enable students to meet the learning objective?**


 * Students will primarily learn the vocabulary by seeing Rachel and I act it out and then in turn acting it out themselves.**


 * You used "line of access" throughout your lesson. I still don't know what it is? ** ||
 * **What is/are the Essential/Guiding Question(s) for this Lesson?**


 * -How can proper posture/alignment help you to feel and sing better? Good. ** ||||  ||
 * **Materials/Resources Required:**

-Document Camera -Computer/Internet Access -Paper and writing utensils ||  || (What will you do? What do you expect students to do? Include set induction and closing.) || Ideas/Questions portion (share with class) 3 Min || Continuation of Window Notes: Facts/Diagram Share with small group 2 Min || Stand up and stretch-backrubs, toe-touch, neck roll, shoulder roll 3 Min - we skipped this? Sit bone exercise-Find your sitbones (and discussion) 1 Min - we skipped this? Rag doll exercise/demonstration (Rachel) 2 Min “String attached to top head” 1 Min
 * **SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES** ||  ||
 * ** Method/Strategy **
 * Hook: Youtube Clip: A Vintage Guide to Good Posture 3 Min ||
 * Introduce Topic of Discussion: Posture/alignment 1 Min ||
 * “Window Notes” note-taking-introduction 1 Min
 * “Window Notes” note-taking-introduction 1 Min
 * Mini Lecture: Presentation of content (on alignment and posture) 4 Min
 * Hands on Learning:

Reflection/discussion: Finish Window Notes-Feeling. 4 Min - Melissa, would you use a "Window-Notes" exercise in your future teaching? How did it feel when you did each of the exercises? Where you surprised? How might having a relaxed and “action-ready” body help you in other areas of your life? Examples? Discuss in Groups Discuss with class (Rachel and I attend to different groups) ||