How to Send an Email to Your Teacher

byRobert R. Sevilla

©2008

Gain Attention

• Do you have an email account?

• Do you have one email account? • Do you have two email accounts? • Do you have three or more email accounts?

Gain Attention

What email service do you use?

Inform Learner of Objectives

We will learn how to compose an appropriate email to your teachers.

Stimulate Recall of Prior Learning

(Name and/or signature)

How do you address your teacher?(Mr., Mrs., or Miss)

What did you make sure you did when writing a letter to adults?

(Use appropriate spelling, language, and grammar)

What did you type or write at the end of your letter?

Present Stimuli

We will now compose an email to one of your teachers.

Here is the scenario:

You believe you have turned in your assignments last week but when you look on your School Loop account, you notice that the grade for those assignments is marked with a “zero”.

How will you compose an email to your teacher?

Present Stimuli

What things should we include in an email?List at least ten things and write them down

on a piece of binder paper. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.10.

Guide Learning

This time, we’re going to compose an email that would be considered inappropriate. Using the same scenario, give me some ideas. How shall we begin our email?

Elicit Performance

I would like you to choose one scenario from the following three. Pretend that I am the teacher in each class. Respond with an appropriate email using School Loop email.

Elicit Performance

SCENARIO #1Your teacher has given you an assignment

on Friday. On Sunday morning you notice that you forgot the handout in class to complete the assignment.

Send an email asking for the handout as an attachment.

Elicit Performance

SCENARIO #2You had a math test today and you think

you did really well - perhaps scoring a 100%. When you look on the online progress report, you notice you only got 5 out of 20 correct - 25% which equals an “F”. You think this is a mistake.

Send an email about your concerns.

Elicit Performance

SCENARIO #3You and your science project team has been

accused of plagiarism. Your science teacher plans to give each team member a “zero” for dishonesty. You know who the guilty party is and you did not have anything to do with this.

Send an email regarding your situation.

Provide Feedback

• Read each email response with the class • Discuss the appropriate as well as the

inappropriate portions of each students’ response

• Elicit feedback from peers

Assess Performance

Send me an appropriately composed email of the following:

1. Things that you have learned about email netiquette.

2. Include items that we did not include in our discussion.

Enhance Retention and Transfer

1. Find additional information on the Internet regarding email netiquette.

2. Complete a website review.3. Email me your website review along

with the URL of the website in an appropriately composed email.