Program Area(s)
Basic Information
Brief Description
Students will learn about advocacy and email their child's teacher.
Essential Questions
Developed By
Co-contributors
Number of Sessions
1
Time Required
150
minutes
Setting
Computer Lab
Instruction Level
Multilevel
Objectives
Lesson Goal
Learning Objectives
Instructional Strategies
Struggling students will receive a paragraph to copy into the email.
Average students will write a paragraph on their own.
Advanced students will write a paragraph on their own and subscribe to the Thrive newsletter.
Resources
Resource
PowerPoint presentation on advocacy.
Copy of the article "When to Call Your Child's Teacher."
Computers
How Resource Is Used
Notes
Pages Used
Lesson Plan
Warm-Up
Activity
Duration
minutes
Introduction
Activity
Notes
Duration
minutes
Presentation
Skill to be Presented
Steps for Presenting Skill
Using the PowerPoint presentation, explain to students the many ways in which they can be an advocate for their child.
Inform student that today we will focus on contacting their child's teacher.
Provide a copy of the article "When to Call You Child's Teacher" and ask students to read it individually.
Discuss the three reasons stated in the article.
Model for students who to write an email to a teacher.
Instruct students to write their child's teacher.
Duration
minutes
Practice
Activities
Groupings
Whole Group
Small Group
Pair
Individual
Duration
minutes
Description
Evaluation
Duration
minutes
Objectives
Assessments
Demonstration
Description
Students will write an email to their child's teacher.
Student Reflection
Application
Activities
Inside the classroom, learners will have achieved the lesson objective when they send an email to their child's teacher.
Outside the classroom, learners will have achieved the lesson objective when the teacher responds to their email.
Notes
Location
Inside Classroom
Outside Classroom