If you wish, you may add things like costumes and props to be chosen from, to help with the presentations.
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DEBBIE WHITLOCK
TEHACHAPI HIGH SCHOOL
TEHACHAPI, CA
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In closing:
We are probably not much different in regard to sometimes doing our lesson plans by the "seat of our pants."
Usually, I write down general ideas of the topics I want to cover with the classes for the week, then I adjust and adapt my lessons to meet the "real world" in whatever fashion that requires. Sometimes, that means teaching by the "seat of my pants." :-)
As the great music educator Sr. Lorna Zemke once said: "We don't teach lesson plans, we teach children. We don't pour in knowledge, we draw it out of the children." We are guides and if we are sensitive to what each individual class is capable of, we know when to step aside and let them have a go at things on their own. When a child can improvise or improve upon something that I have taught them, then I know they truly own it. :-)
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