Lesson Cycle Planning Lessons Where do I start

Lesson Cycle Planning Lessons

Where do I start?

1. How do I get to know who my students are? • Consider different learning styles • Consider interests • Consider readiness – prior knowledge – academic history – standardized achievement scores

2. What is a worthwhile goal for my curriculum? Students will be able to read. (Too broad? )

2. What is a worthwhile goal for my curriculum? Students will be able To identify To analyze To evaluate (Better? )

2. What is a worthwhile goal for my curriculum? Students will be able to identify author’s purpose. – To inform – To compare/contrast – To persuade –… (OK!)

3. What strategies will I use to facilitate learning? • Expose students to a variety of nontraditional readings – Political cartoon (to ridicule) – Music selection from a film soundtrack create suspense) – Advertisement (to persuade) (to

3. What strategies will I use to facilitate learning? • Expose students to a variety of traditional readings – A sentence – A paragraph – A short excerpt

3. What strategies will I use to facilitate learning? • Expose students to a variety of traditional readings – – An essay A short story A poem A book (summer reading? )

In teaching author’s purpose, we will also be discussing other rhetorical features (audience, appeals, devices, structure, tone…)

Because nothing is taught in isolation, all learning is recursive.

3. What strategies will I use to facilitate learning? • Expose students to a variety of readings • Model analysis for students • Have students participate in class discussion of analysis (Socratic Seminar? ) • Have students analyze a selection in a small group or in pairs (Charts on butcher paper? )

Gather Material for Strategies • • • Notes Books Equipment Supplies Media Machines

4. How will I assess/evaluate that my students have achieved that goal?

Assessment/Evaluation • Ask students to read a new selection. (READ) • Ask students to identify the author’s purpose. (Identify) • Ask students to cite specific evidence to support author’s purpose (Analyze) • Ask students to evaluate the evidence they have chosen (Evaluate)

Students should tell/show what they learned.

5. How will I reflect on the effectiveness of my lesson? • Complete this item after receiving students’ task • Review what students have produced • Then what?

6. Upon reflection, what are the next steps? • Complete this item after receiving and reviewing students’ task. • Remediation or re-teaching? • Logical progression? • Next goal?

Teaching is reflective and recursive.

Dawg, You are an exemplary teacher.