Revise & Publish

After you reflect on your facilitation of your activity and how students and families engaged with the activity at the family STEM night, you'll work with your partner to make revisions to your lesson plan that would help others facilitate your activity in the future. And then you'll share your activity plan so that other teachers can use it.

Make revisions

You have quite a bit of flexibility in how you make these revisions and publish your materials so that they are useful to other teachers. Some options:

• Make revisions to the written lesson plan and materials
  • Update the activity materials based on what worked and what didn't
  • Update the anticipated solution strategies based on what students did or said
  • Update the planned questions and teacher discourse moves based on how you engaged with students and families
• Make a video or audio recording where you offer tips on how to facilitate the activity based on your own experience
• Include some pictures of the work that students produced along with tips on how to engage students with mathematics
• Something else...

Publish your lesson and materials

You also have quite a bit of flexibility in how you make your plan and activity materials available for other teachers to use. Some options:

• Send the materials to me for publication on my website for teachers: https://francesharper.com/community-steam/
• Publish your materials on social media (e.g., twitter, facebook, pinterest, etc.)
• Publish your materials on your own website
• Publish your materials on a site that make lesson plans available to others (e.g., https://www.teacherspayteachers.com; https://sharemylesson.com/, etc.)
• Somewhere else...

I encourage you to consider publishing somewhere that will allow you to list this as a publication on your resume. If you publish on my site, Teacher Pay Teachers, or Share My Lesson, you can list this as a publication. An example of how to cite: Bassinger, A. Cottam, V., & Dunavin, K. (2019). Flower power. In F. K. Harper (Ed.), Solving world problems: Equity and social justice in mathematics education. Retrieved from: https://francesharper.com/community-steam/geometric-reasoning/.

What to submit

1. Submit a 1-page summary that explains to me: (1) what you revised or recommended to others; and (2) why you made each revision or recommendation based on your own experience with facilitating the activity. The page can be single-spaced, and I encourage you to organize the summary using a table or bullet points, etc.
2. Any revised materials or lesson plan and any materials you have created to help others facilitate your activity.
3. Either the link where I can view your published lesson (if you are publishing on your own) or materials and a description of how you would like me to publish your lesson on my website (you can have your own page).