LEARNER ENGAGEMENT

PART 1: Overview Questions

Instructional Context Overview
Please tell us a little bit about the educational environment you were working in to
complete this micro-credential.

Type of school/program and the grade/subject configuration

(single grade, YMCA afterschool program, etc.)

Public school, single grade classroom

Grade Age Level Number of Students

Kindergarten 5-6 18

Course

Writing, Reading, and Math

How long have you been working with this class in an educator role prior to the
featured lesson(s) examined in the micro-credential submission?

About 40 days

Briefly and specifically describe relevant:

State or district mandates that impact the featured lesson

Pennsylvania Learning Standards for Early Kindergarten

Type of community
 Suburban public school

Access to current technology

The classroom I am observing has a smart board in the front of the room. The class
has a set of iPads that the children will occasionally use for math games and
activities.

Your relationship with the cooperating teacher

I have a good relationship with the teacher I am observing because she was my
kindergarten teacher. She is such a great teacher to have as a mentor because she
has so much experience so I learn a lot from her.

Any other information you believe would be important for scorers to know to
understand your micro-credential submission

My observations were made through a course I am enrolled in at school, Called

elementary field experience. This class allows me to help out and observe in a
kindergarten class, three times a week.

PART 2: Artifacts
Lesson Plan
Submit the lesson plan that you created for the lesson featured in the video. The lesson plan
must include, at a minimum, fully developed responses for the following items:
● A clear goal and objective
● Alignment to relevant learning standards
● Essential questions
● A clear progression of strategically selected activities in the lesson that will maximize
engagement of all learners
● A plan to assess learners’ understanding of the content of the lesson
● A plan to collect relevant data from the lesson so that the rising educator can make
informed decisions on next steps

Lesson Plan

Planning Universally Designed Instruction

(Pre-Planning Guide)
Teacher(s): Mrs. Pacifico, Mrs. Gallagher
Grades: Kindergarten
 Subject: Social Emotional Learning
Setting: Classroom
# of Students: 18
Topic: Chameleons
Standard Course of Study Goals/Objectives: 16.1 K.B Recognize that everyone has
personal traits which guide behavior and choices. 16.2 K.B Identify family diversity,
Understand each person has a set of similarities unique characteristics and
difference, Model and promote strategies that embrace individual and similarities
unique characteristics

Lesson Objectives: To Develop Friendship Skills, How to be friendly & make friends,
Value self worthiness, Celebrate differences, to Begin to Understand and Use Basic
Problem Solving Skills, Increase listening skills, Improve communication skills/feeling
expression, Introduce problem solving steps

Grouping Students: Large group: 18 children

Lesson Plan – Be Myself Colorful Chameleons

Developed by: Julia Massengill

School: Garnet Valley Elementary School
Grade level: Kindergarten
Subject: Social and emotional learning
Chameleons

Activity Name: Be Myself Colorful Chameleons

Grade Level(s):Pre-K-3rd

Brief Description: Use the book The Mixed Up Chameleon By Eric Carle and talk
about how everyone is unique and the chameleon is can change colors to fit into his
environment, Then handout a craftivity worksheet and tell the children to color their
chameleon their own special color and write 2 things that are special and unique
about their own selves.

Kindergarten Project B.A.S.I.C. Goal(s): Focus Area(s): To Develop Friendship

Skills, How to be friendly & make friends, Value self worthiness, Celebrate
differences, to Begin to Understand and Use Basic Problem Solving Skills, Increase
listening skills, Improve communication skills/feeling expression, Introduce problem
solving steps
 Materials: The book “The Mixed Up Chameleon¨, Markers, Crayons, Colored pencils,
regular pencils, Be Myself colorful Chameleon worksheet.

Lesson:
● Print out 20 copies of Be Myself colorful Chameleon worksheet.
● Have the children sit on the carpet and ask them critical thinking questions
before reading the book
● Read the book ‘The Mixed Up Chameleon¨ and ask the children questions
about the story and what they think during the reading
● After the story ask them about what they think of the theme of the book
● Direct the children to go to their seats and pass out the e Myself colorful
Chameleon worksheets
● Tell them to write their names and to color their chameleon their own special
color
● Then have the children write 2 things that are special and unique about their
own selves just like the chameleon in the book.
● Collect worksheets and hang them up in the classroom

Video of Teaching
Submit an unedited video, no shorter than 4 minutes and no longer than 6 minutes in length, of
you leading instruction at the start of the lesson or learning experience you described in the
lesson plan. The video must clearly show you leading instruction and the spoken words in the
learning environment must be clearly audible. An unlisted Youtube video is recommended.

Video

Teaching Video

PART 3: Reflection
My Reflection Essay
After teaching the lesson, compose a reflective essay exploring your experience leading the
lesson or learning experience that addresses the following questions:
● How and why did you select and create this lesson?
● How successful do you feel the learning experience was for your students and why?
Please include an analysis of the lesson or learning experience implementation.
● What would you do the same or differently moving forward? Please include your ideas
for next steps after this lesson.

Essay

The lesson plan I chose to do was to read The Mixed Up Chameleon by Eric Carle

and ask them questions about what is going on in the story as I read it and what they
 believe the theme of the story is. They were able to use their own creativity to color

their chameleons whatever color they wanted and write positive things about

themselves without feeling as though their peers would tell them they picked the

wrong color. I chose and created this lesson because I thought it would be an easy

way for the students to understand that it is a good thing to be different from their

peers. The students were very successful at completing this lesson because they are

already aware of social and emotional learning. Not many children understand this

concept, and I believe that it is very important for them to learn this at an early age.

The students in Mrs. Pacifico’s class are very accepting of one another and are not

judgemental of their peers. We have a student with special needs in our classroom

and he has a tendency to make loud noises or jump up and run away, but our class

does not judge him for being different and acting different, they treat him as if he is

the same as all of them which very positive because normally children their age will

allow something like to be used as an excuse to make fun of. The lesson was

successful because it taught them that it is good to be different from their other

classmates. They were able to use their own creativity and write unique things about

themselves which is an amazing thing to see children do at a young is and it makes

me happy to know that I am giving these children the concept of self confidence. This

activity not only helped them celebrate themselves, but it will help them learn that it is

a good thing to be different. If I could do this lesson over again, I would not change a

thing. I believe that the students enjoyed themselves while coloring and their self-

confidence was boosted as they shared their differences with one another. Doing this

lesson made me so happy to be a teaching figure.