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=====Break (5 minutes)===== | =====Break (5 minutes)===== | ||
- | =====Learning Objectives and Lesson Plans (25 minutes)===== | + | =====Learning Objectives and Lesson Plans (15 minutes)===== |
(5 minutes) Consider your next lesson plan. What types of learning are you targeting with each activity? Do your activities match your learning objective? What is your learning objective? | (5 minutes) Consider your next lesson plan. What types of learning are you targeting with each activity? Do your activities match your learning objective? What is your learning objective? | ||
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* Good: Be able to define nuclear fusion and state that hydrogen fusion occurs in the core of stars. | * Good: Be able to define nuclear fusion and state that hydrogen fusion occurs in the core of stars. | ||
- | A good section has a lesson plan that targets these learning objects (and is implemented well). Reference {{: | + | (5 minutes) |
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+ | Encourage students to keep a record of their lesson plans and to reflect on each one after they use it. We will be collecting their lesson notebooks to glance through them at some point in the semester! | ||
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(5 minutes) How can we accidentally discourage learning? Pass out cut-outs of each topic in [[http:// | (5 minutes) How can we accidentally discourage learning? Pass out cut-outs of each topic in [[http:// | ||
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(10 minutes) Share as class. | (10 minutes) Share as class. | ||
- | Encourage students to keep a record of their lesson plans and to reflect on each one after they use it. We will be collecting their lesson notebooks to glance through them at some point in the semester! | + | =====Group Work (40 minutes)===== |
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- | =====Group Work (30 minutes)===== | + | |
(5 minutes) Why group work? | (5 minutes) Why group work? | ||
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- Good group work activities take time, often more time than just lecturing. However, the added work results in added gains for the students. | - Good group work activities take time, often more time than just lecturing. However, the added work results in added gains for the students. | ||
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- | - "I paid all this $$ to be taught by professors and graduate students, not listen to classmates who don't know as much." Let students know that benefits of group work. They will resist at first, but proper use of group work will show the students they are learning just as much (usually more) than if you were lecturing. | + | - "I paid all this $$ to be taught by professors and graduate students, not listen to classmates who don't know as much." Let students know the benefits of group work. They will resist at first, but proper use of group work will show the students they are learning just as much (usually more) than if you were lecturing. |
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- Get feedback often. | - Get feedback often. | ||
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=====Homework===== | =====Homework===== | ||
- | - Start keeping a lesson plan notebook | + | - Start keeping a lesson plan notebook. Think carefully about your learning objective(s) each week (write them down!), and flesh out your lesson plan. After section, reflect on how your section went and make comments in your lesson plan notebook. We'll be checking in on these notebooks sometime in the semester. |
- | - Write 2-3 paragraphs on ... | + | - Write a self-reflection piece: |