Lesson Plan, Assesment and JA

FIrst of all I wanted to talk about my lesson plan. I looked at everyones comments about them and I appreciate them all. There were good ones and bad ones but the point is to take them all in and see how they can improve the lesson plan. I used all the comments and went back and did some good dediting. I like the finished result a lot more. Also, one of the main weaknesses that I understood after I gave the presentation and is what many of the comments said was that the presnetor, or me, was weak. Ive always had this issue, but I learn how to correct it quickly. I am really competietive with myself and now im striving to speak clearer, louder and more organized so that the people in the back of the room can hear and understand. Thanks for the insight.
Chapter 11 in the course reader I thought was great. What it said about formative assessments was really interesting. I like alot of the ideas it gave like #2 (allowing studfetns to state in their own words an economic topic or topics in a paragraph) and #8 (ask studetns to submit article from the worldwide presson an economic concept or idea that was discussed in class). I wish I would have read this chapter before the lesson plan to help give me some ideas for the plan; it would have been useful.
I start my first session of Junior Achievemnt next Wednsday at Monte Vista HS. The teachers name there is Anessa Herron who actually graduated from Monte Vista and has been teaching there for the last five years. The class is an AVID class, mostly juniors, goal of attending college, first generation college bound, and come from middle to low income families. Ive meet the students already and have a rapport with them and have communicated with the teacher about the type of program i will be presenting.
Does anyone else have the financial planning program? NEFE?
Anyway, Ill lat everyone know how the first session goes next wednsday....