Pre service Teachers Name: Arti Arora

Mentor Teachers Name: Olivia Tucci

School: Northside Christian College

Year level: Prep.

Lesson Title: Multicultural Transportation

Lesson Time and Date: 60 min. 24/11/14
Lesson Aims
At the end of this lesson, students will be able to identify different means of transport in three modes. They
will get an information about aboriginal transportation and means of transport in Thailand.

Learning Outcomes (use appropriate curriculum framework)

AusVELS Outcome
indicators
To enable students to
listening to, remembering and following simple instructions.
listen to and respond
Sequencing ideas in spoken texts, retelling well known stories, retelling stories
orally to texts and to
with picture cues, retelling information.
the communication of
others in informal and
structured classroom s
ituations.
To make children
The transportation system in the past of aboriginal people will be discussed
aware of
and idea of Thailand transport will be shared through a power point
the impact of changin presentation on transport means.
g technology on peopl
es lives (at home and
Exploration of environment.
in the ways they work
ed, travelled, commun
icated, and played in t
he past) (ACHHK046)

Childrens Prior Learning (what do the children already know/what have they covered?)
Children already know different vehicles and their uses. Children learnt about international Transportation
(Indian) in their last lesson on transport.

Teaching Skill Development (What do you want to develop as a teacher?)

As a teacher I want to develop my skill of time management and planning activities to the level of students
so that their attention is not distracted.

Teaching and Learning Preparation (resources etc)

Power point presentation

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Session Structure
Lesson Phase
Orientation /Introduction
How best to motivate and
explain the importance of
this lesson? This should be
for about 5 minutes with
links to prior learning or
experiences.

Different means of transport in Australia and India which are already known
to children will be discussed.
A power point presentation will be shown to students to make them aware
about the aboriginal transportation and Thai transportation.

Teaching strategy/Learning
Activities
What will support the
students to learn the
concepts you are trying to
teach and to reach the
learning outcomes? How
will you cater for a diversity
of learning needs?

Students will be asked about their experiences at aboriginal land or

Thailand if they visited there.
Students will be asked to create a story by writing, drawing and colouring
about their trip to aboriginal society/Thailand.

Conclusion /Closure
How will you capture the
main ideas of the lesson?
Recap/revision etc.

At the end of this lesson, students will be asked about the difference of
transportation in different cultures.

Assessment Strategies
What assessment strategies
are used throughout this
lesson? These should be
closely aligned to your
lesson aims. How you will
you record student learning
outcomes?

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Students learning will be assessed informally through their story and

drawings differentiating their usual routine and trip to different cultural
land.

Pre-service teacher self evaluation

Needs Improvement
Teaching / Learning
Dimension
Introduction to the
lesson

Progressing
Rating

Achieving Well
Comments
A PPT was a good start to introduce
other communities to the students.

Planning &
organisation of
materials, resources

PPT was prepared and imaginative

journey on the drawing sheet was
planned .

Communication with
students; explanation,
questioning skills etc.

Some of the terms were explained

and it was made sure that students
get them. Frequent questions were
asked when students were planning
their journey.

Selection of learning
tasks
Monitoring/assessment
of student learning
throughout the lesson
Conclusion of lesson;
transition to next
lesson

The drawing and colouring sheet

resulted in excellent outcomes.
Students, response to multicultural
means of transport was good
evaluation and their drawing skills
were assessed.
Students finished their sheets and put
them in the folders.

Reflection
What was good about this lesson? Why?
This lesson described the cognition of slow and fast means of transport in different modes as land,
water and air. It gave a chance to find about the lifestyle of other communities.
How might this lesson have been improved?
The content of the lesson was little hard to understand so the ppt might be without any written part.
Children could be taken to visit some other community as a part of this lesson.
What did you learn about teaching and learning (students and your own) from this lesson?
I observed that children were surprised to see the lifestyle of other communities so they were
motivated to explore a new world.
I learnt that age appropriate content is must to be a successful teacher.

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Mentor Teachers Evaluation

Teaching / Learning
Dimension
Introduction to the
lesson

Rating

Planning &
organisation of
materials, resources
Communication with
students; explanation,
questioning skills etc.
Selection of learning
tasks

Monitoring/assessment
of student learning
throughout the lesson
Conclusion of lesson;
transition to next
lesson

Comments
The chunk of information in the PPT
was not age appropriate.
Showing flags of each country was a
good way to introduce each new place.
The activity was planned over the
weekend, and worksheets were printed
off on the day of the activity.
Arti explained some of the terms and
was working with the students, giving
them immediate feedback as they
worked.
Arti made up her own PPT and
worksheet. To have students feel that
they were on a journey, maybe that
could have been role played going to
each place.
Arti moved around the classroom as
the students were completing their
worksheet task and discussing their
drawings with them.
The students tidied up their sheets and
had lunch.

Any other comments: (e.g. learning goals for next teaching activity)
-Another reminder to stick to time restrictions and to use simplified language such as type of transport not
mode of transport.
Goal for next lesson:
Ensure that the correct outcomes are being addressed
Pace yourself to stay within time restrictions

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