Well here we go. Another day and another lesson chock full of POT/COM goodness. Here’s a blow-by-blow rundown.
Wait! I think a little lollygagging might be in order at this point, don’t you?
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Now, where was I? Oh ya, today’s lesson and all that…
Powerful Learning Experiences
We started by considering powerful learning experiences we’ve experienced as a student or facilitated as a teacher. We analyzed those events to see what factors led to their being so powerful. We came up with quite a list… but I forgot to write it down. Oops.
The Components of Lesson Design
We segued from the mental set to an examination of a strategy that can facilitate your creation of powerful learning experiences for your students – Lesson Design.
The goal for today’s class was to develop knowledge of the the 8 components of Lesson Design. To that end, we used two cooperative structures; we started with the Jigsaw strategy to introduce the 8 components and used the Numbered Head Together strategy to check for understanding. To close this part of the lesson, I asked you to consider which parts of Lesson Design teachers generally use well and which parts may, at times, be neglected.
Here’s the handout with info on each of the 8 LD components. By the way, it appears that there are only 7 components but Bennett counts practice twice, once as Practice – Guided and once again as Practice – Independent. The morale of the story… practice is very important!
The information we worked with on Lesson Design is essentially the second half of a chapter in Barrie Bennett and Carol Rolheiser’s book, Beyond Monet: The Artful Science of Instructional Intelligence. To solidify your understanding of LD, I asked you to read the first half of the chapter. Here it is if you didn’t get a copy in class:
1st Half of Beyond Monet Ch. 6 – Lesson Design
As you read, I asked you to interact with the text using a strategy called Sticky Notes. With 4 or 5 sticky notes in hand, I’ve asked you to place a note on the reading when you:
- Come across a new idea
- Make a connection
- Have a question
- Disagree with the text
- Simply think a passage is noteworthy
On the note itself, please write the reason you’ve placed it where you did. This will jog your memory when it comes to discuss the notes in next lesson’s Say Something activity. This Sticky Notes reading of the text is to be completed for class on Wednesday, 28 October.
Sticky Notes is one of the many excellent strategies in Brownlie, Feniak, & Schnellert’s book, Student Diversity, the text I’ll be using for LLED 320 in Term 2. Here’s the excerpt on how to work with Sticky Notes:
Ultimately, the work we’re doing on Lesson Design will inform the creation of you Microteaching lesson and will serve as the foundation for many engaging and successful lessons over the course of your practica.
315 Task
We ended class by handing out the task we want you to complete as you spend time in the schools during EDUC 315, the Tuesdays Practicum.
You have several Required Elements to complete – including teaching at least one lesson – and we’ve suggested a long list of Recommendations that you can explore if you have time and the opportunity presents itself.
Please familiarize yourself with this document and use it as a tool to take charge of your practicum experience and get the most out of your time in the “real world”.
Here’s a copy of the file if you need one:
315 Getting Into Your Placement Task
Teaching Philosophy Draft Due Date
Remember that a draft of your Teaching Philosophy piece is due next lesson (Wednesday, 28 October 2009). Please submit a copy of your paper to both Shep and I via email on or before that date. Thanks.
If you have questions about this task, please refer to the post from Monday, 19 October’s lesson.
If you’re stuck, you might try checking out a few Teaching Philosophy videos on YouTube. Here’s one:
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Have fun tomorrow and we’ll see you on Wednesday,
– Lawrence