Monday, November 23, 2020

Lesson Plan Assessment

 For our All-Faculty meeting for December, we'll be looking over the following (fictitious) lesson plan. 

We'll use part of Teacher Observation Form to guide our assessment and discussion. 

We'll do this individually and in small teacher groups, then as a faculty as a whole. 



Classical Christian Academy

Mr. Johnson

Subject:  5th Grade History

Time: Tuesday, 11:00-11:30

 

 

MR. JOHNSON’S

LESSON PLAN

YOUR COMMENTS/REVISIONS

Topic

 

French Revolution: Causes

 

 

Objective

Causes of the French Revolution

 

 

 

 

 

 

Formative Assessment

Quiz on Friday

 

 

 

 

 

 

Activities

1.           Pray

2.       Project a cartoon image of guillotine from French Revolution; tell students what it is and who invented it

3.       Teacher to write the ten causes of the FR on the board and tell a bit about each one

4.       Students write them down

on notebook paper, in their composition book, or  on the back of the map we did yesterday in class

5.       Students start to write a story about themselves during the French Revolution: Imagine you’re a child in France during the revolution. Write a story about your feelings about the revolution.

6.       Students work ten minutes on story, then move to grammar lesson

 

 


Live Mini-Lessons for Teacher Professional Development

During our curriculum day time, teachers will be presenting twenty-minute live mini-lessons, with other teachers as the 'class' and audience. Critique and discussion to follow. 

Here's a link to the packet for the day:

Thursday, January 23, 2020

Lesson Planning Using The Wheel


The document linked here:


combines Bloom's taxonomy with methods of checking for understanding, as well as with activities designed to fully engage students. 

The form is a kind of worksheet that I've used it mainly for daily lesson plans in my 11th grade Humane Letters classes. We use Planbook which is where our more detailed lesson plans are found. 

The first image below gives the general (though unfortunately a bit fuzzy) idea, and the second image is a photo of an example from my class. 





The wheel starts in the center with the learning target language--knowledge, analysis, evaluation, etc. 

This helps to focus my planning on the 'bulls-eye' of the learning: the learning objective. Effective planning must start with the target. What will students learn? What is the point of the lesson? 

Across the center line I complete my learning target for the lesson: TSWBAT analyze "immediate & long-range causes of the F.[rench] R.[evolution]."

From there, the wheel moves out to formative assessment (checking for understanding). In my planning I want to move from learning target to formative assessment, that is, how I will check student understanding of the target. 

Finally, the outer circle includes some (but by no means all!) specific activities appropriate for that learning target area. These are meant to make sure that all students are as engaged as possible. 

For this class, I've circled 'analyze' as my learning target. From there, I've selected an exit pass to check for understanding. Finally, for the student activity I used a graphic organizer and pair-share. 



This form also includes spaces for other information--steps in the lesson, notes, etc.