1) The document describes a lesson plan to teach 1st grade special education students the months of the year using the ASSUME method. 2) The teacher will use a PowerPoint slideshow to present pictures representing each month and have students label posters of the months and identify the season each belongs to. 3) The goal is for students to learn the months within a week and be able to identify 75-100% of the months and their seasons by the end of the lesson.

1. Jevon Hayes
CI 350
ASSUME
I decided that I was going to use the ASSUME method in my lesson plan with the group
of 1st grade children in the special education class. The goal is to teach the children the months of
the year. At first I am going to analyze my students. I have young children in the first grade and
typically they will range from the ages of six to seven. The gender of the class is ten boys and
seven girls and also I will be dealing with a culture difference of seventy percent white, twenty
percent black and ten percent Hispanic. I don’t think that culture will play a specific importance
yet because I believe that the children are too young to be fully socialized into different norms,
kids are just kids at this young age. The learning style will have to be at a slower than normal
tempo because these children are in special education and also I have seven children with
ADHD.
According to Dale’s Cole experience people remember twenty percent of what they hear
and ten percent of what they read. When it comes to visuals, people remember thirty percent of
what they see and fifty percent of what they hear and see at the same time. When it comes to
writing and saying what they do, there is a seventy percent remembrance, and when they say
something as they are doing it, people remember ninety percent. Knowing those percentages can
help a teacher plan out their lesson plan for the benefit of the student.
The objective will be to help the children know their months, and I want to give a time
period of a week to learn. My audience is my seventeen students I will be teaching, and once
again, the behavior of the class is to be able to describe and categorize the months of the year.
The conditions will be done by me separating the months by the four seasons, winter, spring,

2. summer and fall. Within each of the seasons, with their months, I will provide a PowerPoint slide
show with a specific item that helps describe the month, for example with November there will
be multiple colorful pictures of turkeys, and December will have pictures of Santa Claus with his
little elf helpers. As I go through these slides I want to provide the children with each of their
own posters and have the months already labeled and let them draw along as they describe to me
what each picture is and maybe have them tell me why that picture is there. The degree in
accuracy will be to go over the month in one week and I want the children to be able to tell me
the months and place them in the season they belong too. I want to expect one hundred percent
but will go as low as seventy-five.
Selecting my three M’s, I will want something that is simple and straight to the point that
is why I chose to use the slide show for the media. The method is to try to help them stick the
images of each month in their head so when they see the image they will be able to recall the
month. I could get a bigger poster board and make my items that represent each month and let
them place them in order by month all working together as a team as I monitor them and make
sure they are all engaging in the activity. When utilizing the media it will be teacher centered
since I will be in control of the slide show but the materials being used will be centered on the
students. I would definitely go over this plan with other teachers and see what they think about
the idea and also get some feedback from the veteran teachers and try to seek advice from the
principle or vice principle. I would prepare the learners by somewhat tricking them into thinking
that we have some kind of boring handout and that we are just going to write down the months of
the year and tell them what I expect out of them. Then I would show them my true intentions and
pull out the materials, I would hope it would excite the children that we aren’t doing boring work

3. and maybe they would show me more motivation to interact with the assignment. I would
evaluate and revise the material after getting the opinions and intake from the other teachers and
hopefully they would will give me useful information that would help me teach the children and
if a week is too short I could extend it to a week and a half or two weeks and just go over the
material slower and have the kids teach me what they have learned after every season.