You will do a lesson design project instead of having a final exam in this course. For this project you will adapt one of the lessons at the InTime website, explicitly connect your lesson plan to ideas from our course, and implement part of it in our class at the end of the semester. Use the 10 part template below.
The purpose of this project is to apply some of the ideas you learned in this course to the design of an existing exemplary lesson while simultaneously learning to use a sophisticated lesson plan database.
This project is due at the beginning of class on December 4th and in addition to turning in your lesson design, following the required template below, you will conduct part of the lesson you have designed on either December 4th or 11th. Presentation order will be determined by drawing lots. You will have approximately 15 minutes for conducting your lesson.
InTime, http://www.intime.uni.edu/ is a wonderful web site which has pedagogically sound, technology enhanced lessons across grades and subjects. The site has lesson plans, questions, and video clips http://www.intime.uni.edu/video.html demonstrating lessons with each component of its pedagogical model (p. 165 of our text) and connections to national standards.
InTime Lesson Design Template
1.Titles: (Your lesson and the InTime lesson plan you adapted)
2.Curriculum area:
3.Grade level:
4. Purpose (Goals/Objectives/Expected Outcomes):
5. Timeline and Description of Activities: At least three days, specify what teacher does and what the students do)
6. Tools, Resources (Materials):
7. Assessment: Both Formative and Summative
8. Teaching Strategies: (including EXPLICIT EXPLANATIONS of connections to our course*)
9. Learning Principles: (including EXPLICIT EXPLANATIONS of connections to our course*) You can use the InTime Model of Learning and Information Processing Principles to help you make connections between your lesson and ideas from our course. The Learning Principles can be found at this link http://www.intime.uni.edu/model/learning/lear.html and the Information Processing Principles are in an attachment below.
10. Explanation of Adaptation from InTime: What did you keep? What did you change?
* Be clear, specific, and thorough in identifying and explaining the ideas from our course that are applied in your Teaching Strategies and Learning Principles.