Lesson Description
For my lesson, I taught a life skills lesson on how to go bowling. The students really seemed to enjoy it. We were practicing for a field trip that they were going to be going on the next day.
I used a lot of ideas from Piaget in planning my lesson. The students I taught, were ages 4th-6th grade, they had profound disabilities. None of them are able to talk or communicate other than when given two choices of pictures they can choose the one they want. Some of the students are in wheel chairs and not able to move themselves across the room. For my lesson, I focused a lot on play. I made sure to include play in the lesson by letting the students practice bowling. The students were able to bowl mostly independently with the use of a ramp made out of pvc pipe to roll the ball down to hit the pins. The students used Piagets play theories, by being able to bowl on their own, but also having to watch their peers bowl, and we focused a lot on clapping and congratulating peers after they had bowled to work on social play skills also.
A motivation theory that was used in my lesson is that the students were motivated by the play aspect of the lesson. They enjoy playing with toys and doing things that are simple and fun for them, so that in itself was a huge motivator. I had the objects out for the students to see while I taught my lesson, and used the objects within my lesson also so that they would be even more excited and motivated to come up and play with the manipulative later in the lesson. We also used a huge amount of positive praise in this lesson as a motivator. The students react really well to positive praise so we really over do it in this class a lot to keep the students interested and motivated.
I also included information processing into the lesson. After I taught the steps on bowling, each student received a card that had the steps and pictures to go with them listed on it. They then had to use the picture card to remember what the steps of bowling were. They had to go through each step individually to complete the whole task of bowling. They had to think back to the lesson and really process how they were to do each step.
I used a lot of ideas from Piaget in planning my lesson. The students I taught, were ages 4th-6th grade, they had profound disabilities. None of them are able to talk or communicate other than when given two choices of pictures they can choose the one they want. Some of the students are in wheel chairs and not able to move themselves across the room. For my lesson, I focused a lot on play. I made sure to include play in the lesson by letting the students practice bowling. The students were able to bowl mostly independently with the use of a ramp made out of pvc pipe to roll the ball down to hit the pins. The students used Piagets play theories, by being able to bowl on their own, but also having to watch their peers bowl, and we focused a lot on clapping and congratulating peers after they had bowled to work on social play skills also.
A motivation theory that was used in my lesson is that the students were motivated by the play aspect of the lesson. They enjoy playing with toys and doing things that are simple and fun for them, so that in itself was a huge motivator. I had the objects out for the students to see while I taught my lesson, and used the objects within my lesson also so that they would be even more excited and motivated to come up and play with the manipulative later in the lesson. We also used a huge amount of positive praise in this lesson as a motivator. The students react really well to positive praise so we really over do it in this class a lot to keep the students interested and motivated.
I also included information processing into the lesson. After I taught the steps on bowling, each student received a card that had the steps and pictures to go with them listed on it. They then had to use the picture card to remember what the steps of bowling were. They had to go through each step individually to complete the whole task of bowling. They had to think back to the lesson and really process how they were to do each step.
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