Wednesday, November 28, 2012
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Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Eva is making me fail school. Surprise? I think not.
Recently I completed my midterm lab project for one of my Speech and Language courses.
The idea behind the project was to outline a speech related goal to work on with a toddler (age of my choice) and implement a lesson plan with that toddler. I was to submit my lesson plan for review and once it received a green light, I was to go ahead and video tape my presentation of my lesson plan. Thinking this a breeze, since I have a willing 3 year old at my disposal to practice aforementioned lesson plans on, I chose to create a lesson plan related to a speech and language goal that Eva and I have been working on - rhyming. It seemed wise, since I already had begun teaching Eva about rhymes and I already had more than enough creative ideas for lesson plans. I proceeded to write out my midterm lesson plan and submitted it to my Professor.
I got a crappy grade.
A really crappy grade.
Among some of her comments, the main theme I noticed was this: 'Given the age group you have identified I am not sure why you chose rhyming as your goal. Three year olds' cannot do this. You need to pick an age appropriate goal.'
Whoops.
Looks like I failed to mention that I have a VERY precocious -no, not precious, precocious - 3 year old who is extremely far ahead (at least by my course materials measure) in speech and language development.
C'mon Eva, you're making your Mommy look bad. Slow up a little, k?
The idea behind the project was to outline a speech related goal to work on with a toddler (age of my choice) and implement a lesson plan with that toddler. I was to submit my lesson plan for review and once it received a green light, I was to go ahead and video tape my presentation of my lesson plan. Thinking this a breeze, since I have a willing 3 year old at my disposal to practice aforementioned lesson plans on, I chose to create a lesson plan related to a speech and language goal that Eva and I have been working on - rhyming. It seemed wise, since I already had begun teaching Eva about rhymes and I already had more than enough creative ideas for lesson plans. I proceeded to write out my midterm lesson plan and submitted it to my Professor.
I got a crappy grade.
A really crappy grade.
Among some of her comments, the main theme I noticed was this: 'Given the age group you have identified I am not sure why you chose rhyming as your goal. Three year olds' cannot do this. You need to pick an age appropriate goal.'
Whoops.
Looks like I failed to mention that I have a VERY precocious -no, not precious, precocious - 3 year old who is extremely far ahead (at least by my course materials measure) in speech and language development.
C'mon Eva, you're making your Mommy look bad. Slow up a little, k?
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