Lesson 3: S.T.E.A.M. Assignment 1

5E Model and Objective

As I reflect on an article that relates to classroom management, what daily procedures would students need to know to participate in a 5E lesson?

In an article in the Los Angeles Times, Harvard researcher Ronald Ferguson developed student surveys to assess classroom engagement measures. Separately, researchers used the “value-added” method to estimate each teacher’s effectiveness by comparing student test scores over time. “When researchers compared the students’ evaluations with their teachers’ value-added scores, they found that the most successful teachers had a few qualities in common, which their students readily identified. They were good at classroom management — students were busy, orderly and respectful. And they were good at clarifying complicate concepts, because they use different ways to make the same point.”1

The 5E Learning Model includes Engagement, Exploration, Explanation, Elaboration, and Evaluation. Here is a list of daily procedures students would need to know to participate in a 5E Lesson.

• How to enter the classroom
• What to do when the bell rings
• What to do when they have a question
• What to do when the teacher wants their attention
• How a paper is to be done
• Where I want the paper turned in
• How to participate in class discussion
• How to work cooperatively and in groups
• What to do upon dismissal of class

What general and specific rules would need to be in place?

General Rules

• Respect others.
• Be polite and helpful.
• Keep the room clean.

Specific Rules

• Follow directions the first time they are given and thereafter.
• Raise your hand and wait for permission to speak.
• Stay in your seat unless you have permission to do otherwise.
• Keep hands, feet and objects to yourself
• Be in class when the bell rings.
• Eyes on the teacher when she/he is talking.
• Change tasks quickly and quietly.

Write an Arts lesson objective using the 5E model and use an appropriate verb.

Compose and perform a four measure song (lyrics and notes) using two of the stylistic dynamics of music, namely, legato (smooth and controlled) and staccato (sharply detached). 

1. Banks, S. (2010, Dec 14). Ask the classroom experts what makes a good teacher; students may hold the key to the vital question of effectiveness. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/817432905?accountid=40965