DIRECTIONS:

With one or two of your classmates, you will be responsible for one 20 minute class presentation during which your group has the primary responsibility for teaching the assigned reading.

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

Do not simply report on or summarize what we have all have read. Rather, your job is to enrich our study and understanding of this text by bringing in additional materials and ideas, by asking us to engage with the content using different modalities, approaches, creative ways of thinking.

Create a lesson plan for your session, hand it in to the teacher upon completion of your teaching, and include a copy in your teaching notebook.

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 to engage students and encourage their interaction with the content of the text.

• 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 and the importance of each goal

--the sequence of activities.

—the materials needed

• Your method(s) of assessment.

 

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.)

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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.)

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Grade:

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