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TPE 1.3

Connect subject matter to real-life contexts and provide active learning experiences to engage student interest, support student motivation, and allow students to extend their learning. 

 

TPE 1.5

Promote students' critical and creative thinking and analysis through activities that provide opportunities for inquiry, problem solving, responding to and framing meaningful questions, and reflection. 

 

TPE 3.3

Plan, design, implement, and monitor instruction consistent with current subject-specific pedagogy in the content area(s) of instruction, and design and implement disciplinary and cross-disciplinary learning sequences, including integrating the visual and performing arts as applicable to the discipline.

 

My instructional unit consists of 4 different history lesson plans that are all interrelated. These 4 lesson plans revolve around Ancient Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt. TPE 1.3 discusses bringing in real-life contexts into the classroom in order to support motivation and interest. The instructional unit is built for real-life situations, especially the inquiry lesson. TPE 1.5 talks about encouraging students to use critical and creative thinking and analysis. Through this lesson unit, students will be continuously using those skills in order to complete the assignment. TPE 3.3 conveys how teachers should be up-to-date with instructional methods. 

 

 

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Completed lesson plans are below (left-hand side)

Direct Instruction

Inquiry Lesson

Cooperative Learning

Direct Instruction (extra)

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