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 (10 minutes) Telephone-Learning-Objectives Exercise (10 minutes) Telephone-Learning-Objectives Exercise
  
-(10 minutes) Pass out Bloom handout. Students often treat learning as fact memorization and regurgitation. As GSIs, we want to help students come to a higher level of understanding. How can the questions we ask and the lesson plans we write encourage this?+(10 minutes) As a class, brainstorm verbs used in questions/exams ("describe", "summarize", "synthesize") and rank them as "higher/lower" levels of learning. Essentially create Bloom's taxonomy as a class first, and then pass out Bloom handout. Students often treat learning as fact memorization and regurgitation. As GSIs, we want to help students come to a higher level of understanding. How can the questions we ask and the lesson plans we write encourage this?
  
-=====Lesson Plans (10 minutes)=====+=====Lesson Plans (30 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? +(25 minutes) Unpacking a topic to form learning objectives and a lesson plan
  
 (5 minutes) A good section has a lesson plan that targets these learning objects (and is implemented well). Reference {{:astro300_f10:leelessonplanay300.pdf|12-step guide}} for making a lesson plan. Discuss each step briefly. (5 minutes) A good section has a lesson plan that targets these learning objects (and is implemented well). Reference {{:astro300_f10:leelessonplanay300.pdf|12-step guide}} for making a lesson plan. Discuss each step briefly.
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-=====Group Work (25 minutes)=====+=====Group Work (20 minutes)=====
  
 (5 minutes) Active Learning (5 minutes) Active Learning
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    - We (as college instructors) should be encouraging and developing students' ability to do higher-order thinking.    - We (as college instructors) should be encouraging and developing students' ability to do higher-order thinking.
  
-(10 minutes) Design a group work activity +(10 minutes) Design a new type of group work
-   - In pairs, choose one learning objective you wrote down earlier and design a group work activity that aligns with it. +
  
 Some tips that address some difficulties of group work: Some tips that address some difficulties of group work:
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-(5 min) Types of Group Work+Types of Group Work
  
   - **The Interactive Lecture**   - **The Interactive Lecture**

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