DIRECTIONS:

With one or two of your classmates, you will be responsible for 20 minutes of teaching in one class period during which your group has the primary responsibility for helping the class practice and focus on the skills identified in a chapter of Joe Williams' Style.

Use creative thinking and your best teaching practice to engage the class.

DO NOT simply report on what you have read—every member of the class has read the responsibility of reading the assigned chapter and doing the assignments. Your job is to enrich our study and understanding of this text by asking us to engage with the content using different modalities, approaches, creative ways of thinking.

Create a lesson plan and handout for your session.

Meet with one of the teachers at least three days prior to the class and go over your plans. Modify your plan and handout according to the teacher's feedback.

GOALS:

In this in-class teaching session, you will practice teaching content (our assigned reading) 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 text.

 

HINTS FOR SUCCESS

• Do not simply summarize the reading--we have all read it!

• Use different modalities (words, images, video, audio, sculpture, physicial activity) to engage students and encourage their interaction with the content of the text and the editing/writing skills it is trying to teach.

• Plan for a total of 20 minutes.

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

• In your lesson plan, identify:

—the learning goals of your lesson

--the sequence of activities.

—the materials needed

• To help us grade the efforts of each member of your team, attach a description identifying what each team member contributed to the lesson plan. Have each member sign this description indicating that the assessment of effort is both accurate and fair.

EVALUATION

Engaging (The lesson engages students as it teaches them.)

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Effective and professional (Learning goals are clear, important, and effectively stated.)

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Creative and Enriching (Lesson draws creatively on enrichment materials and different modalities to enhance understanding of the text. Student does not simply summarize the text.)

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Thoughtful (Thorough, Focused, Detailed, Adequate explanation and analysis of choices and plans, Specific.)

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Complete (Lesson includes all the components specified in the assignment. Student met with teacher three days prior to the class to discuss plans. Student revise plans according to feedback. Student attaches team member evaluations)

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Individual member's grade

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