1. Topic-
What can I teach?
 
2. Content-
Teachers can be students too.
 
3. Goals: Aims/Outcomes-
1. Have students identify a strength that they could teach to their teacher
2. Have students write a complete sentence about teaching the teacher
3. Have students understand that they can be teachers and teachers can learn too
 
Materials and Aids-
Page 26, frame 4 of "To Teach: the journey, in comics" by William Ayers & Ryan Alexander Tanner
 
Procedures/Methods-

A. Introduction-

1. Ask students something they have learned from a teacher
2. Ask if the students think the teacher can learn things too
3. Ask the students if they can be teachers to others, even a teacher
 

B. Development-

1. Explain own experience of being a teacher but learning something from another, like learning how to bake
2. Talk about how teachers don't know everything and want to learn too
3. Ask students something they're good at that they would want to teach the teacher
 

C. Practice-

1. Look at comic frame together as a class and read the sentence
2. Look at the picture and decide what is different about it and what they think the little boy is doing
3. Ask what it would be like if they were the teacher and what they would do
 

D. Independent Practice-

1. Have students go back to desks and look at and read frame again on their own
2. Brainstorm on a piece of paper one thing they could teach the teacher and write it in a sentence making sure to use the words like "teach", "teacher", "student", "learn"
3. Write sentence on final draft paper and draw picture of themselves as the teacher
 

E. Accommodations (Differentiated Instruction)-

1. Use best guesses for spelling on rough draft and have teacher correct
2. Have example sentence for students who need prompt: "I can teach my teacher to learn to _____ by ______."
3.
 

F. Checking for understanding-

1. When finished have students sit with partner on carpet and share what they wrote
2. Have partner share with class what their partner wrote
3. Write down on piece of paper in front of room the things the students would want to teach
 

G. Closure-

1. Discuss all the things the students are able to teach and the different skills they have
2. Restate the point that the teacher can learn too and is excited to learn just like the students
 
Evaluation-
1. Is the student able to write a full sentence on what they would teach?
2. Is the student able to share with their partner what they wrote?
 

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