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315 Dress & Protocols, Voice, Microteaching, & Lesson Design: Update for Monday, 3 October 2011

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Getting Ready for the Tuesdays Practicum

After touching on dressing for success for your first school visit, we outlined some protocols to follow during your initial day in the field:

  • Arrive at the school by 8:15 am
  • Check in at the office
  • Look for the organizing SA
  • Observe and take notes on what you see
  • Take the initiative and get involved whereever possible

Have fun tomorrow!

Voice

Today we played with credible and approachable voice.  Maybe one day you’ll become as proficient at using voice as Ron Burgundy of Anchorman fame:

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmDgl-Y-kiU[/youtube]

We used breakout groups to teach you one of the voices, you peer taught a classmate, and then we gave you a chance to practice a few line using both credible and approachable voices.  To wrap, we asked you to introduce yourself – in an approachable voice – as if you were speaking to a middle school classroom and then to deliver a control statement – “Pencils down and eyes on me, please.” – in a credible voice.  We also noted that the voices aren’t totally distinct from one another but, rather, are on opposite ends of a continuum.

Here’s are some of the resources we used to teach voice:

Credible Voice – The Paper Chase

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx22TyCge7w&feature=youtu.be[/youtube]

Approachable Voice (& Credible, too) – School of Rock

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZCuHXs3Qi8[/youtube]

 

One-Pager on Using Voice Pattern to Signal Our Intention In The Moment

A search of the interwebs will reveal a lot more information about the importance of choosing voice wisely.

Prepping for Microteaching

After taking time to brainstorm your areas of passion, expertise, and fun, we handed out the task sheet and read it over.  Here it is for your reference along with the rubric and lesson planning model we’re suggesting you use:

For class on Wednesday, 5 October you should know your partner and your microteaching lesson topic. Please keep the topic as narrow as possible, as you only have 15-20 minutes to teach.

Lesson Design

In preparation for your microteaching task, we started to look at Lesson Design in the final minutes of today’s class.  We started with a pre-reading strategy, an Anticipation Guide, that had you consider key aspects of the Lesson Design content I was about to present.  Here’s the AG graphic organizer we worked with:

I plan to revisit the statements in the AG once we’ve finished looking at all the material on LD.

Lastly, we started a Jigsaw on the 7 components of effective Lesson Design.  Each of you has a number between 1 and 7 and that corresponds to one of the LD components (1 = Mental Set, 2 = Sharing the Objective & Purpose and so on down the list).  Your job is to read your assigned section and fill out the LD Jigsaw Graphic Organizer with the following information about the component:

  • Brief description
  • Critical attributes
  • When used
  • Why used
  • Considerations

Please have that one section of the LDJGO completed for class on Wednesday, 5 October.

Here is the LDJGO and the reading in case your hard copies go walkabout:

That’s all for today.

Toodles,

– Lawrence