Ok so here it is. I respect that the 5E’s are one of the best ways to plan a lesson, but every school in every district does this differently. Therefore fitting my lesson that I use for my district into this format was stressful. It made me feel like I had to clue as to what I was doing or typing. I know that most of you reading this are saying that it is just restructuring and reorganizing the information, but let’s face it, I know how to lesson plan, I have been doing it forever, and when you change my current training on that it makes me feel like I have no idea what is going on!
On the lesson front, I have already implemented the lesson I presented many times and the students enjoy creating their own talking doll. The worst issue I have with this lesson is because of testing being done on the computers throughout the district, it is hard to find consecutive days to allow the students to get into the media center and work on their projects. This is the most frustrating part of the whole thing, finding the time to get into the places we have to help out students because they are booked up by various other test and so forth. I hope that eventually we will find the funds to create another computer lab and allow all teachers to be able to get into the labs for their testing and free up the media center for research and not testing.
