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Number of Students: **28** Coach Submitting Report**: Group 4** Standards Addressed: **([|NYS ELA], [|NYS Math], [|ISTE])** Lesson Objective: Lesson Opening: Instructional Strategies **//(if any)//:** Student Grouping Methods Deployed: **//(In what ways did students work together?)//:** Technology Used during Lesson/Project: Student Understanding: **//(How did teacher check for student understanding?)//** Guided Practice Strategies Used: Independent Practice: **//(What independent practice strategies were required of the students?)//** Closure Strategy: **//(How did teacher conclude lesson?)//** Classroom Lesson/Project Observation: **(//What did you observe during the lesson?//)**
 * Date**: 10/16/2007
 * School**: IS 12Many
 * Classroom**: Room 12Many
 * Teacher**: Mr. Ramcharran
 * Grade:** 7th
 * Subject:** Social Studies
 * ELA:
 * 1-Info and understanding
 * 2-literary response
 * 3-critical analysis and evaluation
 * 4-social interaction
 * Math: N/A
 * ISTE:
 * 1-Basic operations
 * 2-Social, Ethical and human
 * 3-Use of technology products
 * 4-Technology communication tools
 * 5-Technological research
 * 6-Technology for problem solving and decision making.
 * **Objective**: To gain and experience hands-on understanding of events in African American history.
 * **Opening:** Did not have a lesson opening.
 * **Strategy:** Protocols and procedures were in place so that students could work independently.
 * Students were grouped in fours by roles that they knew to follow.
 * Technology was used to:
 * Digital cameras were used to capture moments in history
 * Smartboard was used to assist students in working independently
 * The Power Point was used to assist students in organizing projects for presentation.
 * The Power Point was used to help demonstrate understanding
 * The internet was used to research events
 * The Smartboard was used to organize the lesson
 * **Students demonstrated their understanding by**
 * Completing planning sheet
 * Capturing photographs
 * Homework is to describe plan for completing assignment
 * **Guided practice strategies used include**
 * We believe this may have taken place in a previous lesson upon which this is building.
 * **Independent practice strategies include...**
 * Students were able to independently determine work
 * Students completed planning sheets
 * **Lesson closing...**
 * Students put away devices.
 * Provides everyone with a purpose for learning.
 * It was inclusive and accommodates different learning styles.
 * Good classroom management.
 * Strong planning, protocols, structure, and procedures.
 * Encourages independence.

Follow-Up (Next Steps):**
 * Speak with teacher about opening with a mini lesson (perhaps using technology i.e. video/audio clip).
 * Speak with teacher about getting students excited about what they are about to learn.
 * Speak with teacher about closing the lesson to tie back to teaching point.
 * Suggest that students can reflect on learning using technology tools.
 * What/how do you wants to develop?
 * Encourage using this teacher as a model classroom for other teachers to see.