Putting it All Together: Effective Lesson Planning (for December 2 Class)

Choose a social science/history topic suitable for a high school lecture or discussion and prepare a “rough draft” lesson plan for that lecture.  Make sure your plan indicates the general purpose of the class session and some ideas for keeping students’ minds engaged.  Include also any ideas you might have for visual aids, an introductory “hook,” or any of the other elements TSSFFAP says are important to effective teaching.  

If you are doing your junior field experience this semester, it would be best to have a lesson plan you have actually used in class.

Please send me the lesson plan as an e-mail attachment before class (marmorsa@northern.edu).  After class, please return to this post and comment on the class session itself.  What new ideas for effective teaching did you get from today's class?

Leading Good Discussions (Please do by November 18)

Please read TSSFFAP Chapter 8 (How to Get from Chicago to New York without Going through San Francisco: Leading Good Discussions) and do the on-line quiz.

Attend any discussion at NSU and analyze it in terms of the TSSFFAP “good discussion” suggestions. To what extent did the discussion reflect the TSSFFAP “Keys to a Good Discusssion” standards? What kind of things did the teacher do to make sure that students paid attention, enjoyed the discussion, and learned something from it? What did you think went particularly well? What would you have done differently?

Keys to and Effective Lecture (please do before class on Tuesday, October 28)

Please read TSSFFAP Chapter 7 (Herodotus Had it Right: From Lecturer to Story Teller) and do online quiz.

Attend any lecture at NSU and analyze it in terms of the TSSFFAP “good lecture” suggestions. To what extent did the lecture reflect the TSSFFAP “Keys to a Good Lecture” standards? What kind of things did the teacher do to make sure that students paid attention, enjoyed the lecture, and learned something from it? What did you think went particularly well? What would you have done differently? Post your comments here.