Cicely+Covington's+Final+Project

=**Responsibility Lesson Plan**=


 * by: Cicely Covington**

//**Lesson Summary:**//


 * The teacher will share with the class that an important aspect of schooling is to help students to become responsible and dependable adults. Students will understand that responsible behavior is extremely essential to successful living and is an important component to being a positive influence on others at school, home and the local community. The class will have a discussion on what responsibility means to them, list and define the three different types of responsibility (personal, social and global) and then the class will view a brief video on responsibility to encourage in-depth discussions. By the end of the unit, Students will present a project to the class to exhibit their knowledge about responsibility in their own creative/meaningful way using toondoo and/or animoto. The teacher will show students how to create their projects by using a Jing video on a whiteboard. Students will be able to post their finish projects on Wiki for all students to view and rate each others work.**

//**"Hand-it" in assignments:**//
 * Students will define the word responsibility, words pertaining to responsibility and identify responsible behavior. Students will complete an handout on "What is responsibility?". The next activity would include students getting into small groups reading various situations on index cards and recognizing responsible behavior. To encourage parents interaction with students homework is sent home, students will complete another activity which includes an interview with parents or someone in the community addressing what it means to be responsible. Students will also have to write at least three entries in their journals about situations they had to deal with this week and how they handled these situations for self-monitoring of responsible behavior Finally, students will have a quiz on responsibility by the end of the week.**

//**"Publish-it" assignment:**// //**Students will define the word responsibility ( and additional words on the responsibility words list), participate in in-depth group discussions in order to demonstrate and have a good idea of what responsible behavior looks like so that they can create a comic on Bitstripforschools.com to share with their peers what they have learned about the concept of Responsibility. Students will use a rubric (hand-out) to rate and discuss their peers publish work at Bitstripforschools.com.**//

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 * 2) Sample project**


 * 3) Project-based Learning and engagement strategies (weekly discussion tied to the project)**
 * The Bitstrip.Com Comic project will put each student in-charge of his or her own learning. Students will be challenged to use their writing and artistic skills in order to complete this project. By using skills taught in their english/art classes, students can ultimately take their learning to the next level.** **Students will deepen their learning by presenting their knowledge of responsibility in a new, meaningful way by using Bitstrip.Com to create a comic. PBL method allows students to cross subject areas using real-world issues as a motivator for learning. This provides an opportunity for students to create high-quality work samples where students have some degree of choice and voice. Students individual creativity is demonstrated as they design images they can connect or relate to in the real-life situations enhancing higher-critical thinking skills (problem-solving/analyzing). Students will be able to critique each others work to promote effective presentations which encourages students need to know essential content taught in class. This type of project also helps to increase student's confidence in collaborating with their peers or by working independently. Thus, producing a learning environment that fully engages all students.**


 * 4) Tied to Standard Course of Study**
 * Note: I am an Exceptional Children's Teacher that teaches 9th-12th grade at the high school. I teach three Computer Resource Labs with a large percentage of these students being 9th graders. These classes were created to assist EC students who are part of the inclusion model to ensure that they can be successful in the general education curriculum. These students have varies disabilities, but most importantly I am serving a large population of students who have behavior issues and have BIPs (Behavior Intervention Plans) in place. My principal has mandated that I teach social skills to help my students with their behavioral issues in the total school environment. North Carolina does not have a standard course of study for social skills at the high school level. So I pull information from the regular education teacher, administration, parental input as well as look closely at individuals BIPs to create lesson plans. So below, I have tied this Responsibility lesson to 9th grade English I course of study as it pertains to specific skills needed by my students to master goals on the IEPs (Individual Education Plans).**


 * North Carolina Standard Course of Study:**


 * Goal 4 The learner will create and use standards to critique communication.**
 * 4.01 Evaluate the effectiveness of communication by: examining the use of strategies in a presentation/product, creating an additional set of standards and applying them to the presentation/products**
 * 4.03 Demonstrate the ability to read, listen to and view a variety of increasingly complex print and non-print critical texts appropriate to grade level course literary focus, by: demonstrating comprehension of main ideas and supporting details/making connections between works, self and related topics**
 * Goal 6 The learner will apply conventions of grammar and language usage.**
 * 6.01 Demonstrate an understanding of conventional written and spoken expression that: uses varying sentence types purposefully, correctly, and for specific effect. Selects verb tense to show an appropriate sense of time. Applies parts of speech to clarify and edit language.**
 * 6.02 Discern and correct errors in spoken and written English by: avoiding fragments, run-oons and comma splices. Selecting correct subject-verb agreement, consistent verb tense, and appropriate verbs. Editing for spelling and mechanics (punctuation and capitalization).**


 * 5) Assessment Plan (how** **to** **assess the hand it or published assessment)**
 * To assess what students already know about responsibility students will complete a KWL chart. In class discussions each student will give an example of a responsibility that they have and will provide examples of consequences when they do not demonstrate responsible behavior. Students will view a variety of presentations to peak their interests as well as get them an idea of the expectations for the project. Students will be provide a rubrics** **to help them complete a proficient technology project. Before students submit their projects to be published, the teacher will provide feedback. In class, comics will be viewed on the whiteboard and bitstrip website. Based upon requirements on the rubrics, students will have open discussions and rate each comic presentation kind of like the "contest". This will provide students with immediate feedback from others, however the teacher will give the final grade to student attached to a copy of the rubric with additional comments. Note: The students input from in-class discussions have some merit. All student-created comics will be posted on bitstripforschools.com webpage for all students enrolled in parents, principals and other teachers to view. Comics will also be printed and students will receive a hard-copy. At the end of the project, students will have to write their final comments on a sticky note about this project as an exit ticket stating "What's Hot" (what they liked about the project) or a "What's Not" (what they did not like about the project). Using all of these assessment strategies, will give the teacher good insight about what the students have learned, provide information about how the teacher can make this project better in the future and/or create ideas for upcoming projects to keep engaging,but not enraging the students.**