Senior Project Presentation 1

Objective:

• Students will learn about the importance/difficulty of making the learning process exciting and the importance/difficulty on encouraging students to read.

Procedure:

1. Ask Questions towards a student's (or students') past experience in school.

• Who loves to read? (Should be answered by raise of hands)
• Who loved to read since first grade? (Should be answered by raise of hands)
• Someone tell me why?  (volunteer/choose at random)

    2.  Talk about the opinion of Ms.  Horwitz (first interviewee) towards the subject/connect it to information I have read in my research.  Include:

• Motivation teachers must have to keep the encouragement going and at a high level. 
• Ms.  Horwitz love for teaching and how that affects her enthusiasm and ideas towards creating activities and keeping old fashion ones interesting (example the Read it! Read it!)
• The importance of involving the students in reading activities and recommending them not just any book, but good books (as explained in an article). 

   3.  Show visuals and connect them to the content that has been taught.

• Colorful poster of a teacher holding up an open book, demonstrating the front and back cover with writing that says "Read to Succeed". or A mini- version of an activity that is used at the school I volunteer at.  It helps students advance in their reading/pronounciation skills. 
• Children's book that talks about following the rules.  

Check for Understanding:

1. Ask one or two questions to see if the class was following along, such as:  What did Ms.  Horwitz, teacher I do service learning with,  say was a difficulty when it came to teaching first graders?  What is a quality a first grade teacher must have in order to encourage his/her students to not just read, but learn overall and make it exciting?

Conclusion:

•      I will conclude with repeating the importance of making learning and reading exciting when teaching first graders, since they still are children who love to play and interact.  Also, how it requires a teacher to be motivated and requires a teacher to love their job in order to project that enthusiasm/encouragement strongly.

Resources and Materials:

• Poster
• A Children's book
• Candy (it's not for sure, though)