Personal Skill Lesson

Assignment 1
Personal Skill Lesson
Create or find (and cite your source!) and modify (if needed) an activity or activities to teach or reinforce a self-help/personal/functional skill (e.g., brushing teeth or hair, telling the time, reading a bus schedule, etc.). You will create a lesson plan and create and present a PowerPoint about your activity/activities in class, using the general information above and detailed directions for assignments #1-3, below. You can plan this for any age group.
Assignment 2
Emotional Self-regulation Lesson
Create—or find (and cite your source!) and modify (if needed) an activity or activities to teach or reinforce an emotional self-regulation skill. You will create a lesson plan and create and present a PowerPoint about your activity/activities in class, using the general information above and detailed directions for assignments #1-3, below. Plan this for a middle or high-school age group.
Assignment 3
Self-advocacy Lesson
Create or find (and cite your source!) and modify (if needed) an activity or activities to teach or reinforce a self-advocacy skill. You will create a lesson plan and create and present a PowerPoint about your activity/activities in class, using the general information above and detailed directions for assignments #1-3, below. Plan this for a middle or high-school age group.
For each assignment, include (in the lesson plan template):

1. A description of the students for whom the lesson is designed. At a minimum, the group or class must include at least two students with disabilities and one English language learner.
   a. Age(s) or grade level(s)?
   b. Type of disabilities?
2. Lesson title/topic, length of time for the lesson
3. Setting (e.g., classroom, resource room, playground, cafeteria, etc.),
4. Would it be completed in a self-contained special education or a general, inclusion classroom?
5. Will this be for a small group or the whole class?
6. What is the measurable objective(s) for the lesson? (What knowledge or skill are the students expected to demonstrate by the end of the lesson and how will that be measured?) And what state standard(s) apply? Example: By the end of the lesson, each student will be able to put the six sentence strips in the correct sequence for the steps for teeth brushing. Modification for a non- reader: put 6 pictures of the steps for teeth brushing in the correct order
7. What words will you be introducing in the lesson?
8. Do any of the students have an objective that is related to the lesson’s objective(s)?
9. What materials and equipment would be required? (Include copies of worksheets, assessments, and/or pictures of materials and equipment.)
10. A description of the instruction. How will you connect with the students’ prior knowledge/experiences?
11. Include a description of any accommodations that students with different types of disabilities and English language learners might require.
12. Assessment: How will you assess whether the objective(s) was met?
13. Proactive Classroom Management: What do you already have in place and what would you remind the students about classroom rules and lesson-specific requirements?
14. Potential Problems & Possible Solutions: What type of teaching challenges or behaviors might interrupt the lesson and how would you address it/them?
15. Expansion or Reinforcement Activity: Would you include a reinforcement activity in a center or plan additional lessons to reinforce this lesson’s concepts and/or skills? Will there be a homework assignment to practice the concept and/or skill? Describe what you would do.
16. What was your source/sources and/or inspiration for the activity/activities in the lesson? Citations need to be in APA format.
    Prepare a brief (e.g., 5-6 minute) presentation for the class for each assignment’s activity/activities.
    Use a PowerPoint, Prezi, or other presentation software. Include brief descriptions of all of the elements listed above. Cite your sources