Being Responsible

Teacher Candidate: Erin Crawford Date: September 13, 2019

Cooperating Teacher: Lisa Gross Coop. Initials:
Group Size: 16 students Allotted Time: 20 minutes Grade Level: Kindergarten
Subject or Topic: Shared Reading/Social Studies- Rules Section: 391

STANDARD: (PA Common Core):

 5.2.K.D - Explain responsible classroom behavior.
 15.2.2.I - Identify rules within the school and community.
 5.3.K.F - Identify and explain behaviors for responsible classroom citizens.

I. Performance Objectives (Learning Outcomes)

● Students will be able to identify what responsibility is concerning our classroom jobs.

A. Introduction/Hook –
 Ask the students if anyone remember what Mrs. Zavadel talked about in our assembly last week.
o Turn and talk
o Answer- being safe, respectful, responsible and kind, the volume codes of the school
 Review that we learned how to be safe and follow the rules of our school.
 Today we are going to learn about what responsibility is and how to be responsible.

B. Development –
 Ask the students to turn and talk about what they think being responsible is.
o Then have students share their ideas.
 Share with the students that being responsible is doing the things that you are supposed to
do, when you are supposed to do them.
 Say, we are going to read a story and I want you to pay attention to the main character in
the story. Is he being responsible like he thinks he is?
o Read Charlie the Ranch Dog
 Page 8 – Is he being responsible and getting out of bed?
 Page 10 – Does he look like he is doing that job?
 Page 16 – Is he being responsible and helping? What is he doing?
 Page 18 – Is this true?
 Page 28 – What do you think is going to happen next?
 Ask the students if they think Charlie was responsible the whole time? Or did he just
think he was being responsible.
o Turn and talk, then share.
 Ask the students to think about ideas of when they can be responsible or when they have
been responsible.
o Turn and talk, then share.
 Share with the students that being responsible will help make our days in school go more
smoothly.
  Introduce our classroom jobs; review each job and what they are to do for that job.
 Tell the students that when they have a classroom job, it is their responsibility to make
sure the job is done and the job is done well.
 This is one time in our classroom that responsibility is very important! It is also your
responsibility to get your schoolwork done and to do it well!

C. Closure –
 Remind students that it is important to be safe and to listen to the adults in the room to make
school a fun and great place to learn and now we also know that it is important to be responsible
in our classroom and our school.

II. Assessment/Evaluation plan

1. Formative
 Observe students, in the future, being responsible in their classroom jobs.

III. Reflective Response

A. Report of Students’ Performance in Terms of States Objectives

Student Objective –
B. Personal Reflection
1. How clear was I in my modeling? Was it engaging?
2. Was I able to pace my lesson to fit the allotted time?
3. How could this lesson be improved?
4. Did I give the students long enough to implement the lesson in their writing?

VI. Resources

Drummond, R. (2011). Charlie the ranch dog. New York, NY: Scholastic Inc.