Learning Activities This section includes at least one activity created individually by each team member that would enable students to acquire the learning expectations in the Enduring Understandings and Unit Expectations Chart. It is essential that the introductory activity to the unit be completed as part of the above requirement, i.e. one team member will be responsible for creating thus activity. Each activity will follow a common template outlined in Appendix 4. All aspects of this plan should be described in sufficient detail so that a person teaching the course for the first time could follow your instructions with minimal assistance. In addition, each team member will select an instructional focus for their activity. Some possibilities include: ICT, Inquiry Method, Critical Thinking, Literacy, ELL, Controversial Issues, Community Resources, Cooperative Learning, Current Events, etc.). Review two quality resources in relation to your instructional focus and write a 300-500 word reflection that answers the following questions: What are the implications for student learning of this focus? What are the strengths, limitations, and challenges for classroom practice? Source and reference the selected articles appropriately. These reflections will be attached in a separate Appendix at the end of the Unit.
Breakdown of Learning Activities/Lesson Plans For FRIDAY FEBRUARY 11 please complete as much of the following as possible. This will help ensure everyone has a sense of what each other is doing and that there is not too much overlap in activities. NOTE: You should have your Culminating Activity clear in your mind as you complete this list. 1. Lesson Activity Topic – What is the overall topic of your learning activity/lesson plan? 2. Overall and Specific Expectations – What OE and SE will your activity/lesson address? 3. Essential Questions – What essential questions will you be unpacking in your lesson? 4. Instructional focus for your activity – What instructional focus will you choose? Some possibilities include: Information Technologies/Web 2.0, Inquiry Method, Critical Thinking, Literacy, ELL, Controversial Issues, Community Resources, Cooperative Learning, Current Events. 5. Content – What specific content knowledge do you plan to include? How does it connect to CA? 6. Skills – What skills will students learn in your activity/lesson? How do they connect to CA? 7. Resources – What resources (videos, text, websites, etc) do you plan on using in your activity/lesson? 8. Instructional Strategies – What instructional strategies (Think/Pair/Share, Jigsaw, Four Corners, Paragraph Planner, etc.) do you plan to incorporate? How do they connect to CA? 9. Assessment Strategies – What assessment strategies (3-2-1, quiz, journal, etc.) will you incorporate? How do they connect to CA? NOTE: For the skills section – Be specific about what skill(s) are you going to teach in your lesson and be sure they are relevant for the CA. These should be aligned with the instructional focus you have chosen. Here are some types of skills: · Communication skills – listening, speaking, writing · Thinking skills – compare and contrast, infer, analyse, interpret, evaluate an argument, etc · Research, inquiry, investigation skills
Learning Activities
This section includes at least one activity created individually by each team member that would enable students to acquire the learning expectations in the Enduring Understandings and Unit Expectations Chart. It is essential that the introductory activity to the unit be completed as part of the above requirement, i.e. one team member will be responsible for creating thus activity. Each activity will follow a common template outlined in Appendix 4.
All aspects of this plan should be described in sufficient detail so that a person teaching the course for the first time could follow your instructions with minimal assistance.
In addition, each team member will select an instructional focus for their activity. Some possibilities include: ICT, Inquiry Method, Critical Thinking, Literacy, ELL, Controversial Issues, Community Resources, Cooperative Learning, Current Events, etc.).
Review two quality resources in relation to your instructional focus and write a 300-500 word reflection that answers the following questions:
What are the implications for student learning of this focus?
What are the strengths, limitations, and challenges for classroom practice?
Source and reference the selected articles appropriately. These reflections will be attached in a separate Appendix at the end of the Unit.
Breakdown of Learning Activities/Lesson Plans
For FRIDAY FEBRUARY 11 please complete as much of the following as possible. This will help ensure everyone has a sense of what each other is doing and that there is not too much overlap in activities.
NOTE: You should have your Culminating Activity clear in your mind as you complete this list.
1. Lesson Activity Topic – What is the overall topic of your learning activity/lesson plan?
2. Overall and Specific Expectations – What OE and SE will your activity/lesson address?
3. Essential Questions – What essential questions will you be unpacking in your lesson?
4. Instructional focus for your activity – What instructional focus will you choose? Some possibilities include: Information Technologies/Web 2.0, Inquiry Method, Critical Thinking, Literacy, ELL, Controversial Issues, Community Resources, Cooperative Learning, Current Events.
5. Content – What specific content knowledge do you plan to include? How does it connect to CA?
6. Skills – What skills will students learn in your activity/lesson? How do they connect to CA?
7. Resources – What resources (videos, text, websites, etc) do you plan on using in your activity/lesson?
8. Instructional Strategies – What instructional strategies (Think/Pair/Share, Jigsaw, Four Corners, Paragraph Planner, etc.) do you plan to incorporate? How do they connect to CA?
9. Assessment Strategies – What assessment strategies (3-2-1, quiz, journal, etc.) will you incorporate? How do they connect to CA?
NOTE: For the skills section – Be specific about what skill(s) are you going to teach in your lesson and be sure they are relevant for the CA. These should be aligned with the instructional focus you have chosen. Here are some types of skills:
· Communication skills – listening, speaking, writing
· Thinking skills – compare and contrast, infer, analyse, interpret, evaluate an argument, etc
· Research, inquiry, investigation skills