SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE III (2016)

KLA: Me and my school

Date: 26/2/2016
Time: 2:10pm
Class: Early Stage One
School: Lambton Public
APST FOCUS: 4.2 Manage classroom activities Demonstrate the capacity to organise classroom activities and provide clear directions
Outcome / Standard: Explores their immediate surroundings by questioning, observing, using their senses, and communicating to share
their observations and ideas. STE-4WS
Objective / Learning Intention: Students to identify the objects that are man-made or natural and classify them into the two
categories.
3.1 & 3.2 Background / Cultural / Prior Knowledge: Some students may have a prior knowledge of natural and man-made things
however this is an introductory lesson to the concept.
3.3 Knowledge integration:
TECH
CA

HSIE

3.4 Inclusivity

1.1 Deep Knowledge

3.5 Connectedness

1.2 Deep
understanding
1.3 Problematic
knowledge

3.6 Narrative
Timing

ENGLISH

MATHS

PDHPE

SCIENCE &

1.4 Higher order

thinking
1.5 Metalanguage

2.1 Explicit quality

criteria
2.2 Engagement

2.4 Social support

1.6 Substantive
communication

2.3 High expectations

2.6 Student direction

Procedure

Considerations

INTRODUCTION (O):
Students are seated on the verandah after their recess
break, invite students quietly into the classroom to be
seated in front of the Interactive Whiteboard. Ask students
to raise their hands if they have ever heard of the word
natural? Or man-made?

Resources
- IWB natural
or manmade slide
prepared
- 45 copies in
A3 of
natural and
man made
cut and
paste
- scissors,
glue,
pencils.

2.5 Student self regulation

Assessment
students
Questioning
and
observation
diagnostic to
see which
students have
heard these
terms before.

Differentiation
Strategies
Definition, visual
pictures, Sydney
harbour to extend
students to find the
natural and man-made
in the one picture.
Strategies for gaining
and maintain attention
of the students1,2,3 look at me
sh sh shhhh
reinforce the 5Ls to
encourage appropriate

listening
Bell
Youtube clean up song
BODY (G):
Move through the IWB prepared, defining natural and manmade, providing pictures. Looking at the one picture to see if
students can see natural and man made and two pictures of a
natural swimming hole and a man made swimming pool.
Discussing the difference and classifying the two

BODY (E):
Students complete a cut and paste activity to classify 8
pictures into either man-made or natural and then colour
them in. Roam the classroom during this activity. Prompt
students do people make volcanoes? No, it must be natural
then

CONCLUSION (R):
Play the clean up song, students sit on the floor in front of the
Interactive Whiteboard. Learning stars on board and ask
students to share one thing that is man-made and one thing
that is natural. Kristen models writing a sentence about
today. Students collect work from their trays and sing the
good afternoon song.

Noise control

Questioning
Does it grow?

Be mindful of
timing
Choose students
to answer
questions/come
up to the
whiteboard who
are sitting quietly
Im looking for
someone who is
not calling out
and who has their
legs crossed, just
like____
Students clean up
properly. Ensure
their desk is
exactly the way
they left it.

Roam the
classroom, take
notes on
students who
have done
really well and
students that
needed
support.
Questioning

Supervising teacher:

WEEK: 1 2 3

Are all students settled

on the floor?
Use strategies to gain
attention and settle
students.

Date:

DAY:________________________

Reflection on student achievement against the outcome, indicator or objective based on

information / evidence provided by the assessment strategies within the lesson.

Students who complete

the task can build upon
their knowledge and
draw something else
natural and something
man-made that they
can think of.

REFLECTION TEMPLATE

Reflection on your delivery of the lesson, effectiveness of resources, strategies,

questioning, inclusion of QT elements etc. May include a statement about future
modifications or action if required.

May also include anecdotal notes about individual student progress.

LESSON 1:

LESSON 2:

LESSON 3:

Supervising teacher:

Date: