Looking at Lessons
After today's class, the question that pops into my mind is where should we look first in deciding that a lesson is a good one. Perhaps the task or problem needs to be open-ended enough that there is space for students to exercise higher-order thinking. Perhaps the evaluation or rubric is the road map for students. Perhaps, as Tom March believes, it is important to give students reasons to reach beyond the classroom.
Then there are the mechanics of creating a lesson that is useful and doable within the "real" classroom.
Lots of ground to cover!
posted by Pat at 4:30 PM
2 Comments:
I agree that the higher level concpet would be a good place to start but I also think that you need to look at the big idea you are trying to cover and decide if the task or project meets that big idea and is the best way to teach the idea. I mean there are projects out their that may spend more time than needed on the small ideas and not really get to the big idea. So i would think you need to start on the BIG idea and work from there.
6:28 AM
When looking at the big idea / end product for a lesson, that's where collaboration is desparately needed between teachers. They need to really reach out to one another and make sure that not only the end product, but the methodology used to achieve that is of a higher oredered variety.
9:57 AM
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