This URL presents the idea that a lesson plan is more than a recipe. A good lesson plan incorporates multiple theoretical perspectives on teaching through careful planning. This idea is transmitted through graphics - gif animations - with few words!
Type of Material:
Outline of a lesson plan and how the lesson is adapted/created to correspond to education theorists? models. Animated graphic is used as a primary tool for displaying information
Technical Requirements:
These web pages work best over high speed Ethernet, but a slow modem works
Identify Major Learning Goals:
This page appears to be a brief outline for students to begin thinking about how lesson plans are related to different educators? theories about learning. A good lesson plan incorporates multiple theoretical perspectives on teaching through careful planning.
Target Student Population:
This site is offered as a resource for students at Huntington College. The author intended these web pages for others who have Internet access also. (Based on very prompt responses to e-mail questions, the author is receptive to suggestions for improvements to the web pages.) It is well suited for prospective K-12 teachers studying introductory general curriculum, assessment, or teaching methods.
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:
The audience needs to have background information about learning theory for the information on this page to be meaningful. The future teachers should have basic knowledge of the importance of a lesson plan for instruction.Technically, the user only needs basic Internet skills.
Content Quality
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Strengths:
The emphasis on having (future) teachers incorporate a theoretical model into their planning is extremely important. This author considered it important enough to merit designing web pages that show the students the association between their plans and the theorist?s model. For example, students often misinterpret the Hunter Lesson Plan. This resource puts that approach within a broader context, and by making the associations between instructional approaches concrete, assists students who are struggling to incorporate multiple theories into their own instructional approaches.
Concerns:
Important concerns used in the search for a cognitive constructive approach to learning are missing. Perhaps the Learning Cycle approach to instruction should be incorporated as an additional page. Karplus, R., Lawson, A.E., Wollman, W., Appel, M., Bernoff, R., Howe, A., Rusch, J.J., & Sullivan, F. (1977). Science teaching and the development of reasoning physics. Berkeley: Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California.
Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool
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Strengths:
This is a model that can be used to have students identify multiple theoretical perspectives within their own lesson plans. The potential applications for this web page are very good.
Concerns:
This model presents one faculty member?s interpretation without links to the primary sources. Teachers present their views to students, but these should be supported with references ? and web page information should follow that practice of citing resources and the beauty of the WWW is that it facilitates making those resources readily available to the readers.
There is also a concern the information on this web page will be taken out of context. The user will not understand the depth of the process of lesson planning. The user may use this resource to create superficial and meaningless plans. The author doesn?t intend that use of these materials,
but too many teachers, in their rush to prepare (due to not enough planning time being provided) lesson plans, may accomplish the planning of what will be an incomplete and ineffective lesson.
Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty
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Strengths:
This URL presents the idea that a lesson plan is more than a recipe. A good lesson plan incorporates multiple theoretical perspectives on teaching through careful planning. This idea is transmitted CLEARLY through graphics - gif animations - with few words! The quality of the gif at http://www.huntington.edu/education/lessonplanning/anatomy_mi_ani.gif is very good.
Concerns:
The Bloom?s Taxonomy page shows an unreadable sample lesson plan. The directions state, ?For full-screen lesson plan, right click on the lesson plan, then click ?view image.? Click Back? button to return to this page.? That could be easily fixed on the page about Bloom?s Taxonomy, because the actual file at (http://www.huntcol.edu/education/lessonplanning/anatomy_bloom_ani.gif ), as previously mentioned, is very good.
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