512+Agenda+-+7.22.15


 * Key Objective(s):**
 * I can identify key considerations for planning a lesson
 * I can explain the purpose of the Big Six elements of lesson planning
 * I can describe the characteristics of an effective lesson plan that works for me and an outside reader
 * I can navigate curriculum resources for my content area


 * Focal Assessment:**
 * Creation of a lesson plan (due at a later date)

9:00 - 9:15 - Welcome and Review
 * Notetaker: Kala
 * DAMMP
 * https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/high-school-biography-project
 * Descriptive
 * Forbidden words: understand, know, learn
 * Clear expectations that lead to a reasonably suggested assessment.
 * Achievable/Attainable
 * Within the students’ power to complete the task
 * Complete the task within a time allocated
 * Can be assessed at the end
 * Clear assessment possibilities
 * o Memorable
 * Concise, not cumbersome
 * Accessible language for students
 * Teacher can come back to it throughout the lesson
 * Purposeful
 * Are you teaching something that is worth doing?
 * Remember: Two forms of learning objectives: “SWBAT” or “I can…”
 * “SWBAT analyze how game changers influence society and how that affects the lives of the students. Analyze through research and representation of chosen figure.”
 * Like the social aspect of the objective.
 * Don’t have to include everything in one learning objective.
 * How do we make it more succinct and memorable?
 * “SWBAT research and represent how game changers influence society and their own lives.”


 * “SWBAT research, report, and identify key characteristics of an influential historical figure through a first person account in a wax museum.”
 * Learning objectives are not just for teachers (i.e. parents)
 * “SWBAT research and identify characteristics of an influential historical figure through a first person reenactment.”


 * “SWBAT identify behaviors or forces that advance humanity and/or drive change and produce examples.” § “Examples” might be too ambiguous.
 * Too much or too little specificity?
 * Rather than an objective for the final project, this might be a great objective to be used earlier in the unit.
 * “SWBAT identify characteristics of a historical figure that allowed them to advance humanity/drive change.”

9:15 - 9:45 - Housekeeping
 * Course Description/Syllabus
 * Go over Review Directions & Criteria Assignment
 * Go over Closure directions & rubric
 * Go over syllabus.
 * Teaching competencies hand out (20% of the grade)
 * Shift from “student doing assignments” to “professional development.”

9:45 - 10:00 - Setting the Stage
 * https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Vc1kb2HzklYLlsLLAm-dW3m5f0Fr68a2tvSGLkFbvT8/edit?usp=sharing
 * Why planning matters (cooking metaphor)
 * Lesson planning takes collaboration.
 * Lesson might not go right the first time, the second time, or the fifth time...it's a work in progress.
 * No kid can be the flopped pancake.
 * Consult with cookbooks and other resources
 * Back up planning: need to have more than one egg!
 * Disconnect between planning/reading and doing.
 * It's going to taste great when it is done right. So satisfying!
 * Activities like this make additional connections, promote abstract/open minded thinking and creativity.

10:00 - 10:45 - New Concept: Big Six Elements
 * Ingredients for a basic lesson
 * http://www.discoveryeducation.com/teachers/free-lesson-plans/us-cuba-relations.cfm
 * http://www.discoveryeducation.com/teachers/free-lesson-plans/understanding-television.cfm
 * http://www.uen.org/Lessonplan/preview.cgi?LPid=23500
 * http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/draw-math-story-from-144.html?tab=4#tabs
 * http://www2.mcrel.org/compendium/activityDetail.asp?activityID=96
 * http://www.pecentral.org/lessonideas/ViewLesson.asp?ID=6537#.Va-7R2RVhBc
 * Writing a lesson plan like a recipe
 * Basic Lesson Ingredients:
 * Content (from your own knowledge, outside sources, textbooks)
 * Goal and Assessment
 * Timeline
 * Materials (slides, handouts)
 * Instructions for students
 * Set the Stage
 * Introduce
 * Check in with students
 * Check where students are with content
 * Connect
 * Capture Interest
 * The Plan
 * Introduce the lesson, capture student interest, make connections to their lives (sell it!)
 * Offer students a plan/agenda so they can anticipate what is coming.
 * Teach a New Concept
 * Multiple access points
 * What are several different ways I can present this material?
 * More than one avenue to comprehension.
 * Layers of cake
 * Build on students' prior knowledge, interests, and experiences.
 * Ask higher order thinking questions.
 * Check for understanding
 * Learning Activity
 * Clear instructions
 * How do I set students up for success?
 * Is this challenging?
 * Modeling
 * Adequate Support
 * Challenge and Support
 * Assess
 * Diagnostic
 * Baseline for where you are right now.
 * What do you enter this task knowing and being able to do?
 * Formative
 * Informal
 * Learning in formation: checking to see where students are throughout the lesson/unit
 * Checks for understanding
 * Summative
 * "In sum"
 * At the end of the unit
 * Informed by information gathered in diagnostic and formative assessments
 * Closure
 * Invite students to reflect on their progress toward the objective
 * Meaningful end.


 * Lesson Plan as Writing Task
 * Lesson plans are for many people (CTs, administrators, colleagues, teacher/supervisors, TPEP, edTPA)
 * Clarity of intentions for accurate representation by others.
 * Lesson plans must be detailed, but fit on a card (i.e. a recipe card)


 * Sample plans

10:45 - 11:00 - Break

11:00 - 12:00 - Curriculum
 * Figuring out what to teach
 * A few (of the many) types of curriculum:
 * Formal
 * Informal
 * Null
 * Hidden
 * Received
 * Peruse the curriculum resources on the 512 main page

12:00 - 12:15 - Closure

12:15 - 12:45 - Lunch

12:45 - 4:00 - Language Program
 * Observation Focus - What "Big Six" elements of planning did you observe? Where could these elements be incorporated?
 * Identify a stated or implied objective - Evidence of individual student learning toward this objective?


 * Upcoming:**
 * P.E.T. - Direct Instruction (BB)
 * Select curriculum content for lesson plans. Using the curriculum resources on the 512 main page, choose 2 possible topics/lessons/standards and write 1-2 objectives to go with each. Write this down and bring it to class tomorrow.