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A VARIETY OF PLANNING RESOURCES.
A VARIETY OF PLANNING RESOURCES.
TESOL's Six Principles for exemplary ELL teaching. (To investigate, click the pic left and scroll down on the site.)
KEY PRINCIPLES OF STUDENT LEARNING (Click this title to download.)
This article synopsis, reprinted from The Marshall Memo, outlines what we know about how students learn based on current cognitive research. This dovetails precisely with our 3-year professional development project.
4 M's of Learning Objectives: Manageable, Measurable, Made First, Most Important
Manageable:
Lesson plan objectives need to be achievable during a single class period. You may be
teaching past tense, but your students won’t learn and master it in one lesson.
Unmanageable: Students will understand/learn past tense.
Manageable: Students will be able to form regular past tense verbs.
Measurable:
Build in an assessment. You might want to use an "exit ticket" strategy. For the manageable
goal above, you could have your students transform a list of 5-10 base verbs into past tense
and hand their paper to you as they leave the room.
Made First:
Teachers who decide what they are going to teach and then write the objective miss the boat.
Write the objective, and then design the lesson.
Most important:
The objective should focus on what is most important for the students.
adapted from Teach Like a Champion by Doug Lemov
Transparency with assignments is one key to students gaining confidence, thriving academically, and feeling they belong. Researchers have zeroed in on three components that the most-effective instructors orchestrate and communicate to students:
- The task – What exactly are students being asked to do?
- The purpose – Why should they do it? What important learning will flow from it?
- The criteria – How will students’ work be evaluated?
When instructors explain material clearly, use good examples to explore difficult points, are well prepared, and have a solid command of their subject, students notice and appreciate it – and are more successful academically.
Excerpt from: Marsh Memo 605, 9/28/15, “The Unwritten Rules of College” by Dan Berrett in The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 25, 2015 (Vol. LXII, #4, p. A26-A29)
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Resources:
The Change Agent The Change Agent provides socially relevant content, powerful student writing that inspires discussion, and ready-to-use, CCR-aligned lesson plans – all oriented toward a multi-level audience. SCALE has an account that allows you to download issues and access lesson plans, audio files, and more. BREAKING NEWS ENGLISH Free, interactive, printable English lessons in 7 levels based on current events in the news. OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES (OER) Lesson plans, interactive games, videos, and many other free resources. TEACHING CHANNEL Immediately applicable activities and techniques you can employ in the classroom, along with video examples. TESTEACH A searchable collection of lessons. Use "ESL" + desired content or skill to find targeted lessons and/or presentations. GROWTH MINDSET Learn and teach about this important, well-researched concept that can vastly improve students' persistence and performance. The videos and lessons are made available through PERTS, the Project for Education Research That Scales, an applied research center at Stanford University. PERTS partners with schools, colleges, and other organizations to improve student motivation and achievement and conducts research that expands what is known about academic motivation. GROUP LEARNING ROUTINES Ideas and templates from ALL-ED for structuring group work that keeps students active during learning activities. PBS LEARNING MEDIA ANNENBERG LEARNER.ORG READWORKS.ORG STRATEGIES TO ENHANCE INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICE Instructional Techniques from Teach Like a Champion by Doug Lemov Teach Like a Champion 2.0: VAULTT (Video Assistance for Understanding Language Teaching Techniques) - Michigan State University -VAULTT is a collection of original videos highlighting various aspects of language teaching in the classroom. Each short video is accompanied by supplementary information (in a PDF) explaining the techniques and relating them to best practices in language teaching. Some of these videos are real classes, and some are staged. Lesson Closure with Examples of 40 Ways to Leave a Lesson assembled by Ann Sipe, Grandview School District, Grandview, WA |
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