Week 3 Investment
The readings for this week had some great information about instructional planning and writing lesson plans. Writing out lesson plans is so important to keep be able to effectively reach your unit goals and the class goals. Learning more about this, there were three things that really stook out to me with writing lesson plans. Having objectives, creating questions to ask throughout the lesson, and also having an evaluation piece. I find these three to be some of the most critical parts of an effective lesson plan.
Having objectives is an important part of a lesson for not only you but your students. Telling the students what to expect for the lesson so that they can know how the lesson will flow and relate. Creating questions can be an important part to help keep the students in the lesson. Questions also help to evaluate understanding throughout the lesson. Also having a balance of questions that the instructor comes up with on the spot but also writing out well-worded questions. Lastly, one of the most important parts is the evaluation. How do you even know effective your lesson is if you do not have an evaluation piece in your lesson? Evaluating your students at the end of class with a ticket out or quiz can be important for improving the lesson for the future too.
In other courses that I have taken, the majority of my classes all list out the objectives before the class begins. This just goes to show that a lot of professors do this because they see the value too. It's critical to list objectives before every lesson or lecture. Secondly, this is more of a question. The readings stated how important an interest approach or bell ringer is. During the summer tasks, I learned from my mentor team that most of them do not do interest approaches because they can sometimes be seriously time-consuming. So my question is, how can you keep bell ringers short but still be a valuable interest approach?
I watched a really cool Ted talk from Joe Ruhl. He explained the importance of how to write and design lesson plans by fulfilling his 6 C's for student success. Student Choice, Collaboration, communication, critical thinking (problem-solving), creativity, and caring. I found it extremely interesting and can't wait to bring some of these points in class this week. Here is a link to the Ted talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCFg9bcW7Bk
Having objectives is an important part of a lesson for not only you but your students. Telling the students what to expect for the lesson so that they can know how the lesson will flow and relate. Creating questions can be an important part to help keep the students in the lesson. Questions also help to evaluate understanding throughout the lesson. Also having a balance of questions that the instructor comes up with on the spot but also writing out well-worded questions. Lastly, one of the most important parts is the evaluation. How do you even know effective your lesson is if you do not have an evaluation piece in your lesson? Evaluating your students at the end of class with a ticket out or quiz can be important for improving the lesson for the future too.
In other courses that I have taken, the majority of my classes all list out the objectives before the class begins. This just goes to show that a lot of professors do this because they see the value too. It's critical to list objectives before every lesson or lecture. Secondly, this is more of a question. The readings stated how important an interest approach or bell ringer is. During the summer tasks, I learned from my mentor team that most of them do not do interest approaches because they can sometimes be seriously time-consuming. So my question is, how can you keep bell ringers short but still be a valuable interest approach?
I watched a really cool Ted talk from Joe Ruhl. He explained the importance of how to write and design lesson plans by fulfilling his 6 C's for student success. Student Choice, Collaboration, communication, critical thinking (problem-solving), creativity, and caring. I found it extremely interesting and can't wait to bring some of these points in class this week. Here is a link to the Ted talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCFg9bcW7Bk
Thanks for sharing Brandon.
ReplyDeleteKeep in mind, your blogs dont have to be written pose like an essay. Use pictures or bullet points. Whatever is going to help you in the future.
Would you send this to your virtual mentors? Great litmus test question to ask!
Brandon, the Ted talk you mentioned sounds really cool! I'll have to check that out!!
ReplyDeleteBrandon, this is really cool. I would suggest that you try to write more story like rather than just responding to the reading. I also wrote abiut objectives and how they relate to other courses that I have taken at the college level. I know that it is really hard to write about these reading rsther thab just answer the questions.
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