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Multicultural Lesson Plan Analysis
Multicultural Lesson Plan Analysis
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Multicultural Lesson Plan Analysis
Multicultural lesson plan is an essential tool in multicultural education. This lesson plan ensure multicultural education is included as part of the learning instruction. This essay will explore two multicultural lesson plans of two types SIOP and EEI.
SIOP lesson plan
The SIOP model for lesson was developed by Center for Research on Education, Diversity and Excellence (CREDE). The purpose of the organization is to develop an explicit method of sheltered instruction. To examine application of SIOP, I will examine a sample SIOP lesson plan “Lesson Plan for Building Background: The English settle in America” (Liten-Tejada, 2002).
The objectives of the lesson are aligned with the academic standards. The lesson objectives are gaining knowledge on why different groups of people immigrated in the country. The students should also be able to meet the reasons for migration to the reason of the early settlers. Furthermore the students should be able to locate the colonies on the maps. This objectives support the academic learning objectives for multiculturalism.
The assessment is in line with the learning objective. The assessment seeks to determine that at the end of the lesson the learners can to identify immigrant and settlers in to the country and their reason for the migration. The student must be able to provide maps of settlements or identify the location of the settlements on the map of the country.
The learning experience of the learners is also relevant to the objective of the lesson. The learning is supposed to expose the learner to the diversity of the immigrants, their values and why they migrated. The instruction is differentiated in various ways to accommodate the learning abilities of various learners. The differentiation involves various activities such as discussion, group work, use of maps and picture. The diversity of learning material and activities will take care of the learners needs.
The lesson plan also provides varied and multiple ways of for checking whether the students are taking in what they are learning. These include discussion questions and homework questions which are to be taken by students.
EEI lesson Plan
The Cinderella variant project lesson plan is an example of an EEI lesson plan. In the lesson plan, the objectives are aligned with the academic standards. It aims at enhancing learner comparison skills be making them compare the English, French and other versions of the Cinderella story. It also aim to enhance the learners dialogue skills and use of diagrams such as venn diagrams in marking differences and similarities.
The assessment is aligned to the learning objectives explicitly trying to determine what he learners have acquired from the lesson. The assessment involves test, discussions and take home assignment. The learning experience is also relevant to the course objectives. It aims at helping the learners experience diversity through the teaching instruction.
In the learning instruction for this lesson, there is some differentiation. The differentiation makes it suitable for diverse audiences. The learning modalities also vary to ensure that the diverse body of learners is served properly. Also the lesson provides multiple ways in which the understanding can be checked severally during the learning process. This includes homework assignments and exams.
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Multicultural Education
SIOP EEI
Enables link of content to student background
Incorporates various strategies
Ensure training and practice
Group orientation in nature targeting the whole class
Also targets small groups and independent learners.
It integrate both reading, writing, speaking and listening
It is hands on, with linked objectives and promotes engagement
Assessment can be conducted on groups or individual learners. It provides the learners and teachers a collaborative learning environment
Provide a modernity under which the learner behavior can be monitored and shaped
Ability to shape learner attitudes helps develop cultural accommodative traits
Can target learners in groups or individually.
References
Lesson Plan: Cinderella Variant Project. Retrieved from http://storytrail.com/LessonPlans/cinderb.htm
Liten-Tejada, R. (2002). Lesson Plan for Building Background: The English Settle America. Gunston Middle School, Arlington, VA retrieved from http://www.cal.org/SIOP/resources/lessonplans.html
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Group Evaluation McDonalds Happy Meal and Healthy Living
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Group Evaluation: McDonald’s Happy Meal and Healthy Living
Introduction
Evaluation of any project is an integral part of the whole process, so it the evaluation of the team that carries out the project itself. The purpose of evaluating a team at the end of a project is to determine how well they worked as a unit to actually meet the objective that the group had set out to meet.
This team appraisal is done after the completion of the project itself not to find out whether the project is completely carried out but to determine the lessons that have been learnt, the mistakes that have been made and the obstacles that have been surmounted by the team that carried out the project. The essence of this evaluation is therefore to propose any recommendations were the group to work together in another project.
Background
The project that my group was to carry out was in relation to McDonalds receiving pressure to do away with the Kid’s Happy Meal product due to concerns about childhood obesity. We were hired by McDonalds to develop a nutritious happy meal with a toy inside that represents healthy living.
This project presupposes the fact that most unhealthy kids tend to grow into adults who are unhealthy. Therefore, given the recent ban on toys that come with fast food that is laden with a lot of calories is not really the solution. An alternative is the most probable solution. Given that it is an assumption that it is the toys that attract the customers the same principle should be used.
The team was composed of Elizabeth, Monze, Arshad, Luis and I. Elizabeth and Monze were the leaders of the team; while Arshad, Luis and I worked on the ideas for the group.
Contributions
Members of the group could not meet on personal level and so most of the work was done via electronic mail. Each member researched on a particular aspect of the project and sent it to the group leaders who then shared this information with the rest of the group. As leaders for the group, Elizabeth and Monze did most of the work, especially the compilation of the final report for the project.
There were very many useful ideas that members of the group came up with and the discussions were very inclusive. So in general each member of the group did his or her best to play their part in coming up with suggestions and ideas on how to meet the objective that we had.
Quality of Work and Group Attitude
Most of the members often met the deadlines to submit the information that was required by the group. Since most of this was via emails, there was always no need for meetings or adjusting them in order to accommodate individual members. The basic foundation was to come up with the ideas on how to meet the objective and send them to the group leaders who liaised among themselves on compiling these work. This was then sent to the members and as a group we evaluated the ultimate group work. This not only saved time but enabled the group to take part in other activities while at the same time meeting the deadlines provided.
Other than a few shortcomings and challenges here and there, as a unit the group worked together very efficiently and agreed with most of the basic principles on how the group was carrying out its project and found it easy to work seamlessly.
Conclusion
The group met its objective of coming up with a healthy alternative for Happy Meal that would have toys those encouraged kids and other consumers of the product on healthy living.