This is the first assignment that was done in my CI 350 course at Marshall University. This is a method used that assists teachers in making a more efficient and well-rounded lesson plan.

1. Noah Martin
CI 350-202
Professor Harold Blanco
January 22, 2014
ASSURE Method Assignment
A- Analyze the Learners:
My students consist of a group of seventeen Special Education first graders,
seven, of which, have Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD). There are
ten boys and seven girls overall in my class. The entire room consists of seventy
percent Caucasian, twenty percent African-American, and ten percent Hispanic. It
will be difficult to determine what the learning styles of these students will be
because of their learning disabilities. ADHD usually causes a student to become
bored with one lesson in a short amount of time, so moving from one lesson to the
next would be best. Also, having multiple learning materials ready would be best
advised.
S- State the Objective:
Audience:
-My students
Behavior:
-Will recite and categorize each of the twelve months in a year
Conditions:
-By using calendars, birthdays,charts and graphs, guided games, songs,
seasonal coloring sheets, and a comprehensive oral quiz on the last day
-In four days
Degree:
-At 100% accuracy
S- Select the Method, Media, and Materials:
Method:
-
A large group lecture and hands on class would probably be best for
these students so they have a better “student/teacher” interaction with
me, instead of attempting to learn off of each other.
Media:
-
I believe that a Power Point would be best because it is a program that
allows me to use pictures, words, videos, and music to help me explain
the months to these Special Education students.
Materials:
- I will be using store bought materials like paper, markers, crayons and
other art materials to do the worksheets. I will also be purchasing a
calendar to point out the months. Everything else can be utilized on the
computer.

2. U-Utilize the Media and Materials
To make sure everything went as planned for my class, the next four days of
learning, I would make sure that I had everything set out on the tables that were
needed for the worksheets and coloring pages. I would also make sure to place the
calendar and the charts on the walls to wear each and every student could see.
Next, I would make sure that my Power Point was exactly how it needed to be.
Maybe even go through, read and revise each of my slides. I would make sure that
each and every source of media and every material was in perfect condition.
When starting class with my students, I would ask, as a group, how many months
can each student name, and then ask to put what they know in order. I would start
with the calendar most likely, just to get the most obvious and outright, easiest
part of the learning experience out of the way. At the end of the lesson, I would
most likely go back to the calendar. After the calendar, I would probably start
with the song to get them all excited to learn and so they have something to go by,
that may be easy to remember, when we start learning intensively into the lesson.
Finally, start the major part of the lesson with the power point containing visual
and audio lessons.
R-Require Learner Participation
For my students, I will get each of them interested by introducing the topic of the
months of the year by the students listing where their birthday lies. After everyone
is done announcing their birthdays and in the months, I will ask each of them to
line up in order from the earliest birthday, to the last. This is a good way to
engage the students in the topic and get their blood flowing and excited to learn.
With all of these students having learning handicaps, allowing them to be hands
on with the topic will allow them to run off some energy. Also, this forces the
students to interact with each other. After lining up, I will ask each student, in
line, how many of the months they can recite in order. Those who get all twelve
months will receive a reward, those who do not will receive a smaller reward
when finished with the introduction so they do not feel excluded from the class or
topic.
E-Evaluate and Revise
As far as evaluation goes with my students, I will randomly ask each of them
questions throughout the day how many of the months they know, if they do not, I
will ask them to ask their neighbor for help. This will go on for the entire class
throughout the week so they continuously have to think about what is going on in
the class. This technique also encourages studying of the topic through the lessons
in class. In a Special Education classroom, rewards are a good way to also
encourage learning. I would also, make it an effort to randomly quiz these
students, on the months, if I saw them in the hallway. Doing this also creates a
stronger bond between the teacher and the students because students, at these age,
enjoy the one on one interaction from teachers and enjoy learning the topic if they
like the person who is teaching it.