Planning for Inquiry

1. What are my concerns about planning and teaching my integrated unit?

I have two larnge concerns going in. One is that I am not sure how to plan for second graders. I have gotten an idea of what works for eighth graders and how to assess them while I am teaching. I feel like I have to twist my brain around and start thinking first of all how we assess second graders to begin with, and how we plan activities and then figure out ways to merge them. I am really not sure how to plan lessons around a concept for second grade which is normally planned around the education of skills or if not, around reading. My second concern has to do with finding ways to to integrate my unit into the preestablished curricullum. I am not sure what to do if there aren't preexsiting stories in the literature book, or math lessons or science classes that relate directly to my unit.

2. How will I approach/address these?

I realize that I need to approach my mentor and really work with her on this project. This is problematic because she already feels she spends too much time at school to begin with, but I hope she will do this for me. I want to talk to her about various forms of assessment she currently uses. I have to turly discover what I want to assess and what might be the best methods to do that will be. I need to work with her on looking at the curricullum and figuring out a way to use what is there in my unit.