Lyndsey G.

Hepworth
Winter Internship, Greenleaf
Guidance Unit Write-Up

Guidance Lesson: 9
th
Grade Lesson to ELL Classroom

1. Guidance unit is focused on academics.
2. EALRS: Reading 2.2.2, Social Studies 2.2.1 and 4.4.4
3. ASCA standards: A:B1.4, A:C1.6, C:A1.7, and C:B1.1.
4. ASCA student competencies and indicators: Improve Learning, Relate School to Life
Experiences, Develop Career Awareness, and Acquire Career information
5. Pre and Post Assessment survey: The pre and post survey was administered prior to the
lesson and at the end of the lesson. I read the questions aloud and asked them to answer
yes or no by raising their hand and then counting how many yes and nos.

Reflection

The lesson is given in the beginning of every year to the freshman. This lesson is
extremely important! They see pictures of all the administrators, counselors, and staff in the
main office. We tell them who their counselor is and who they can go to for help. Although
they will not leave knowing every persons name, they will get the message that there is a lot of
people in the main building who want to help. The lesson also tells them about graduation
requirements, including state testing. Because I delivered the lesson to the freshman in ELL
classrooms I had to make quite a few modifications. For example, instead of standing in front of
the room and talking about what was on the powerpoint we sat in a circle and went through the
slides together. I answered questions such as what are credits and what does an A mean versus
an F. It was evident that all students were engaged and benefitted from the lesson. This lesson
was delivered after the senior lesson (that I also wrote up) and because I sparked the collecting
data trend, the counselor in charge of this lesson and myself made a pre and post survey to go
with this lesson. We were not in computer labs for this lesson so we decided to do a raising
your hand survey. A different counselor was in charge of keeping the data from the freshmen
lessons, so I do not have that information. For the lesson I taught, I asked eight questions and in
the beginning only a couple people knew some of the answers. At the end of the lesson when I
asked the same questions many more people knew the answers. If one person did not know the
answer to my question, I went over the correct answer with the group so everyone would hear it
again. Some of the questions included how many credits do you get when you pass a class, how
many credits can you earn in one semester, how many fine arts classes do you need to take, and
how many credits do you need to graduate? The questions were focused on the graduation
requirements. The powerpoint of the lesson is attached.