ED 2500 Orientation to Teaching

Instructor: Kurtis Hewson

Educational Issues Presentation Lesson Plan

Issues Topic Child Poverty
Group Members Brianne, Jesse, Jason, Kristyn Date May 29, 2014

Learning
Objectives
What do you want your
classmates to learn?
Students will:
Understand how teachers accommodate child poverty in the
classroom.
Assessment
How will you know your
classmates have learned?
Poll everywhere How does child poverty affect elementary
classrooms?
Article jigsaw.
Briefly discuss and write one answer on the board to how can
teachers accommodate child poverty in the classroom?
Materials
What resources will you
need for your
presentation?
Poll everywhere
Dominos
Articles
Graphic Orgnaizer

Introduction
5 minutes
Talk about our practicums briefly and pose our main question. Have each
student take 10 steps and text in one thing (on poll everywhere) from their
prior knowledge that they know about child poverty. Briefly discuss these
points.
Body
15 minutes
Give one article to each school group and have them read and understand it
as a group. Students will then pick a domino and match up with the other
dominos of that color. Then they will explain the key points of their articles
with their color groups and fill out the graphic organizer with the main
points from each article.
Closure
10 minutes
For the closing activity we will have the class return to their school groups
and discuss the main question: how can teachers accommodate child
poverty in the classroom? We will then have each school group write one
idea on the board in regards to the main question. Briefly discuss.

Key
Resources
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVXzsxc4ikY,
http://tvo.org/whypoverty/info/poverty-education,
http://education.alberta.ca/department/ipr/archive/commission/report/reali
ty/success.aspx,
http://www.joebower.org/2012/07/the-problem-is-poverty.html,
http://saveourschoolsnz.wordpress.com/2014/05/14/superman-socks-child-
poverty-and-education-in-new-zealand/,
http://www.wholechildeducation.org/blog/reducing-the-effects-of-child-
poverty.

ED 2500 Orientation to Teaching
Instructor: Kurtis Hewson

Professio
nal
Reference
s
Gassama, S. (2012). The Correlation between Poverty and Learning: What Can Be
Done To Help Children with Limited Resources Learn. Eric: Institute of Education
Sciences, 1-14. Retrieved from http://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED530618

Ferguson, H.B., Bovaird, S., Mueller, M.P. (2007). The Impact of Poverty on
Educational Outcomes for Children. Paediatr Child Health, 12(8): 701-706.
Retrieved from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2528798/