Lesson Plan Idea

I have decided what topic I will do my lesson plan on. It will be on the issue of Copyright and the impact of movie and music downloading.

I would make this lesson plan for a class of year ten students and would focus of the social and economic implications of free movie and music downloading.

I may start with a question to the class; "What is copyright?" or "who here has ever downloaded a movie or music before?" and then go into an explanation into what is copyright, or I may be able to find a short video that describes it.

I would then maybe either move the students into small group, or I may do it as a class discussion on what the students think the problems that downloading illegally may cause.

I would then finish with students either presenting their groups ideas to the class and giving feedback or getting them to write a short Argument as to whether or not they think that downloading is a good or bad thing using the ideas presented in the discussions.

This is only a preliminary idea, I will be making a more firm outline of the goals and tasks of the lesson later.

Lesson plan

I still have yet to decide what to do my lesson plan on. Keeping the topic relevant to the students as well as covering the necessary requirements for the assignment is proving a little difficult for me. I think I will need to take more time to think about it.

I may ask my mentor teacher for some ideas for my lesson plan, she may have some suggestions on what issues in the uses of ICT could be related to the classroom. It is important to be able to relate in the topics back to the students as they learn better when the lessons relate back to their lives'. Once I have began observing some lessons I may acquire some ideas for this assignment.

Professional Practise Placement Details

After a very long wait I now have my placement details and will be starting on the 18th of March


Site: Parkdale Secondary College
Address: Warren Road
MORDIALLOC EAST 3195
Phone: 9580 6311
Principal: Greg McMahon
Student Teacher Coordinator: Theo Gidis
Mentor: Susanne Flavin

Placement: Master of Teaching (Secondary) Reduced Mode - Placement 1R
Start Date: Monday, February 14 2011

Areas: Information Technology

Teaching Fellow: Vincent La Ragy
Clinical Specialist: Katie Richardson

RSS Feeds and Content

Well, after working for almost 30 minutes I finally have a few working RSS feeds on my blog, working out which ones I wanted to add (what interests me and is beneficial to my professional development) and how I wanted them to look.

The Connecting Librarian feed that I have added I have been watching for sometime now, as I am interested more in becoming a teacher Librarian and not a straight out teacher I find that the blog has some interesting incites into the library world in which I already work.

Through the beginnings of my studies I have recognised that working in the library and teaching have many similarities. While in different settings, Libraries and the people that work there are seen to be care takers of knowledge and information for the public, and in doing so, at times must pass on and teach this information/knowledge to others when needed, much like teachers. This is one I am so enthusiastic about this degree; as I have already experienced many aspects of what is being discussed in my line of work.

For this blog on my professional development I am still a little at a loss of what to add. Page titles, subjects studied, professional practise, assignments, the list goes on. I believe that by the next class I will have had to decided on what pages to add and how I am going to organise my content. Until then, it is going to be a little messy.