'How Does This Affect Me?' Fair Lesson Planning and Authentic Classroom Understanding
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Authors
Post, Benjamin R.
Issue Date
2003
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Thesis
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en_US
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America and its people are changing. And with them, so do America’s Public
schools. While school vouchers and private education have stolen headlines from statefunded
institutions, a small movement has slowly built steam in the teaching community.
That is the concept of fair and relevant classroom understanding, with an emphasis on
authentic learning opportunities for a diverse student population. The goal behind
authentic classrooms is to allow students’ interests to influence lesson planning; the idea
being that if the format for what students learn is framed by their interests, they will
retain more information.
For my SIP, I attempted to model a fair and relevant classroom while interning in
English and Social Studies at HS Middle School. I began my research by looking at
previous literature on the topic of authentic education, then used that information to form
lesson plans that I felt would interest my students. To gauge their interest in my lesson
plans, I handed out surveys that allowed them to judge how well the lesson plan went and
whether or not they found the lesson plans interesting. What I found from the student
surveys and my lesson plan assessment was that students were more interested in lesson
plans that accessed their own interests and previous knowledge, but perhaps more
importantly, students responded to activities that were enjoyable and teaching techniques
that were varied and creative.
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