Presentation Type
Presentation
Faculty Mentor’s Full Name
Erin Saldin
Faculty Mentor’s Department
Creative Writing
Abstract / Artist's Statement
Technologically Enhanced Introduction to Creative Writing Unit Plan
My educational unit plan serves as an 9th & 10th grade Introduction to Creative Writing. Each lesson includes guiding questions, learning outcomes, content standards, and step-by-step instructional activities. As it spans over poetry, prose, nonfiction, and fiction, the unit plan will serve, for students, as an introduction to Creative Writing and, for educators, as an avenue for integrating different styles of technology into their teaching repertoire.
With the assistance of my mentor, I crafted each lesson around the Creative Writing content and skills most precedent for 9th and 10th graders. The addition of technology as a teaching tool in my unit plan provides educational opportunities for teachers across all disciplines. For example, any video can be transformed into instruction with simultaneous assessment using Ed Puzzle. Teachers can film their teaching, use any digitalized video, or time a slideshow and use Ed Puzzle to add checkpoints in which students are asked questions, can ask their own questions, or leave comments. In my unit plan, Ed Puzzle is utilized to teach figurative language terms and assess student knowledge by asking for and providing examples. In our current climate, and as education moves back to a more traditional setting, virtual learning will continue to offer bountiful products, adaptions, and extensions that can vary instruction, create online learning opportunities, and provide modified or advanced learning experiences.
As an English Education major with a second concentration in Creative Writing, this unit plan will be adaptable and beneficial to my student teaching experience and future classroom. Through its creation, I am more confident and capable to teach Creative Writing. At UMCUR I will present using an interactive PowerPoint which highlights content covered in my lesson plans as well as their unique emphasis on technology.
Category
Humanities
Audio/Video Presentation 480P
A Technologically Enhanced Introduction to Creative Writing --Instructional Unit Plan
Technologically Enhanced Introduction to Creative Writing Unit Plan
My educational unit plan serves as an 9th & 10th grade Introduction to Creative Writing. Each lesson includes guiding questions, learning outcomes, content standards, and step-by-step instructional activities. As it spans over poetry, prose, nonfiction, and fiction, the unit plan will serve, for students, as an introduction to Creative Writing and, for educators, as an avenue for integrating different styles of technology into their teaching repertoire.
With the assistance of my mentor, I crafted each lesson around the Creative Writing content and skills most precedent for 9th and 10th graders. The addition of technology as a teaching tool in my unit plan provides educational opportunities for teachers across all disciplines. For example, any video can be transformed into instruction with simultaneous assessment using Ed Puzzle. Teachers can film their teaching, use any digitalized video, or time a slideshow and use Ed Puzzle to add checkpoints in which students are asked questions, can ask their own questions, or leave comments. In my unit plan, Ed Puzzle is utilized to teach figurative language terms and assess student knowledge by asking for and providing examples. In our current climate, and as education moves back to a more traditional setting, virtual learning will continue to offer bountiful products, adaptions, and extensions that can vary instruction, create online learning opportunities, and provide modified or advanced learning experiences.
As an English Education major with a second concentration in Creative Writing, this unit plan will be adaptable and beneficial to my student teaching experience and future classroom. Through its creation, I am more confident and capable to teach Creative Writing. At UMCUR I will present using an interactive PowerPoint which highlights content covered in my lesson plans as well as their unique emphasis on technology.