Critique Paper

Critique Paper

Lesson plan is one of the most important components of teaching field. It pertains to detailed description of the teachers' instruction course for a particular class. An everyday lesson plan is formed by a teacher for the purpose of guiding the class instruction. In every kind of lesson plan, the details and descriptions vary greatly relying upon the teachers' preferences, subject coverage and the interest and curiosity of the students or children. The school system may also have the mandatory requirements in terms of the development of lesson plan for every class and/or every course (O'Bannon, 2008).

Subject Grouping: Sorting, sizes, patterns, vocabulary, spatial awareness, individuals, whole class, student pairs

The lesson plan is appropriate for the targeted age group and for the prospective purpose of imparting the particular learning objectives. In order to teach the spatial awareness and sorting, the lesson plan is specifically suitable where the children are required to identify the animals and change their positions. Moreover, the sorting and patterning problems have been solved in a proper manner following the lesson plan. Later the students can be evaluated by performing this activity in the group. However, the patterns can also be tried in a different manner. For instance, number patterns such as 1, 2, 3, __, 5 may also be a good option to assess the students on particular exercise. This would enable the children think in different ways and will also encourage and engage them in the process of learning and assessment.

This particular lesson will also be helpful for the students in many other subjects. This lesson can be taught with the help of using different resources such as toys, and things made out of colored paper. All subjects require children to have good grasp on patterns, sorting and vocabulary in specific. Moreover, this would enable the students to learn to work in groups and pairs. However, some more modifications and additional usage of resources can make the children more confident and bold. Besides this, accompanying the activity with a textbook would also be more fruitful and systematic in order to make the kids understand the main perspective.

Subject Grouping: Counting individuals or student pairs

The lesson involving the Hula-Hoop™ Toss Activity is an appropriate activity for the students of lower and higher grades. The students will be encouraged to play and learn in teams while giving turns to everyone. One of the good elements is that they will learn to follow rules and know the limits and ways to perform a task or play. Playing Hula Hoop would be more beneficial in large classes which has more students so that more teams and pairs can be formed for students to indulge in this activity fully. It is a good activity in keeping the students engaged into learning numbers and communicating with each other in pairs.

However, this activity may not be an appropriate assessment of students regarding the learning of counting and numbers. The lesson plan lacks the formal part of assessment which could be conducted by ...