Lesson Plan
How can I develope a good lesson plan when I teach in an open enrollment class?
VERONICA,
You develop it like you always do but you identify segments that can be shared based upon where the students are in the course. This way you know with the new enrollees where to start in the lesson as well as those that are further along in the course. The key is pulling up those segments on a as needed basis and then offering them to the students.
Gary
Dr. Gary Meers
You are still going to have a plan and course of action before each class. I was told once to "prepare like a kindergarten teacher" meaning that you have several different activities ready to go because you don't know what you are going to get for the day. Breaking the class into lecture, small group, independent activities, etc. helps because it gives people different opportunities to work with the material. Since everyone learns differently, you need make the content accessible in different ways. Some people aren't going to like one method but some are. You are NEVER going to get 100% "loving" each of your lessons.
Stephanie, I agree with you. We need to create a plan and a course of action before each class. The plan gives sequence in your classes to reach the goals in the syllabus. We have to use a lot of different activities ready to go because you don't know what will occur this day. I always break the class into mini-lectures, small group for demonstrations, independent activities in the computer all in the same room. I am only a facilitator around the classroom. My plans are very long, but the next time we have all the possibilities that I have in my classroom to help the student with the content in different ways (techniques). All the educational system needs to do a lot of professional workshops of lesson plan for the k-12 teacher, academic professors and for all the administration that supervise the academic programs.
Neida Solivan
