M6 U3 Activity 1: Write a Lesson Plan
Project Description
Overview You are now ready to develop lesson plans that will guide your teaching. As you plan the activities for a lesson, think about how you can engage students immediately at the beginning of the class so that no instructional time is wasted. You will also want to assess their previous knowledge about the content so that you can build on what students already know. You should share the objective(s) for the lesson with students and may have already posted it at the front of the room. You may want to draw attention to key vocabulary words for the lesson. In this activity, you will create a lesson plan. You will have to think about several priorities. Which objective(s) will you expect your students to meet? Which students will require differentiation and will your focus be on differentiating content, process, or product? How will you actively engage students in learning? How will you incorporate high impact strategies? What technology is available to enhance student learning- if none, then what would you include if you had your dream classroom? What strategies can you use that are specific to the grade level and subject area that you are teaching? In this activity, you will have the opportunity to think more about how you can use PBL, GBL, mobile learning, and other innovative approaches using technology in a lesson. Performance outcome
Candidates write an innovative lesson plan that requires students to use 21st Century skills
What will you do?
Create a lesson plan using the TEACH-NOW lesson plan template in the Activity Resources. Choose a lesson you described in your unit plan in Unit 2 of this module. Note: Your school may have a lesson plan template that you use, but for this activity, you will use the TEACH-NOW template.
Fill out all the sections of the lesson plan template with appropriate and relevant descriptions, beginning with the objective of the lesson. It is important to spend some time thinking about the lesson objective because you will use the objective statement to guide the selection of activities and materials for the lesson.
Mention the vocabulary that students will be learning in the lesson and the strategies you use to introduce it. Also mention if the lesson covers any other literacy skill such as giving speeches, acting in a play, writing a summary or an essay, etc.
If you used student profiles to indicate the diversity of students in your unit plan, use the same profiles in the lesson plan to describe the differentiation strategy.
Think through your assessment strategy for the unit and accordingly pick the formative and summative assessments for your lesson. Try to create assessments that lead to students using higher order thinking skills instead of rote learning or memorization of facts.
Explain the big ideas of the objective that you want students to understand and then design discussion questions to help students think deeper on the topic.
Develop high impact teaching strategies, and activities you will use to help them achieve the objective as well as utilize 21st Century skills. Think about how you will use technology in the lesson to help you increase productivity, and create enhanced or deeper student learning. (Include tech ideas even if you may have limited resources at the school during implementation.)
List out the materials and resources needed for the lesson.
Submit the completed lesson plan as a Google Document.
Activity requirements
Complete Google Document lesson plan based on the TEACH-NOW lesson template
(The above information was cited from the TEACH-NOW Teacher Preparation Certificate Program)
Activity Resources
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