DIRECTIONS:

With one or two of your classmates, you will be responsible for one class period during which your group has the primary responsibility for teaching an assigned topic.

Use creative thinking and your best teaching practice to engage the class. Also consult 3-5 other handbooks/style books for different perspectives on your topic.

Provide a few practice sentences (and answers) so that folks can practice their skills

Do not simply report on what you have read. Enrich our study and understanding of this topic by asking us to engage with the content using different approaches and creative ways of thinking.

Create a handout for your session, hand it out to the class before your session.

GOALS:

In this in-class teaching session, you will practice teaching grammar and usage topics in a way that engages and enhances our learning about the text.

This is your chance to practice teaching in a way that engages students and helps them develop deeper and more complex understandings of a topic.

HINTS FOR SUCCESS

• Do not simply summarize what you have read in The Little, Brown Handboook--we have all read these pages.

• Consult 3-4 different handbooks or style books to get some differing perspectives on your topic.

• Use different approaches to engage students and encourage their interaction with the content of the text.

• Plan for a total of 15 minutes.

•.Employ creative enrichment activities that you design—but make sure that they help teach something important.

• Provide a few practice sentences that students can try--and the answers!

EVALUATION

Engaging (The lesson engages students as it teaches them. Practice sentences are provided.)

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Effective and professional (The instruction and presentation is carefully planned, designed, and executed.)

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Instructive (Lesson teaches important information about the topic.)

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Grade:

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