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It has been the norm to have Teachers lead the learning done in classrooms.
Lets give the students a chance to lead. We are developing the leaders of tommorrow, yes?
Learning Outcomes
Teachers will learn
- About students leading the classroom lessons
- The steps to take to give the students the tools they need to take on the role of teacher in their course
- How to share power in the classroom
- How to guide the students learning instead of leading it.
- Specific Activities when they can have their students lead the class.
NEEDS ASSESSMENT
1. Instructional problem:
Teach College level Faculty how to develop new curriculum techniques that allow the students to play the role of the teacher in the classroom to enhance the students learning experience.
2. The nature of what is to be learned:
The Faculty will learn
- The philosophy of student lead classes.
- The benefits of student lead classes.
- Specific ways to implement student lead classes.
3. About the learners:
The learners will be College level Professors who are looking to try new curriculum techniques.
4. Instructional content:
The Teachers taking this class with
- Teachers are assessed on their current thinking on the subject, to measure a starting point of knowledge
- Learn material
- Blog about their learning and thinking process
- Be assessed on their learning After
- "Do" What they are learning
- Implementing and Assessing your own model.
5. Explore instructional problem/solution:
6. Generate goals:
Performance Objectives
After completing this course the instructor will;
- Be able to discriminate the major concepts of student lead classrooms compared to the current model they are using.
- Be able to discriminate what specific student lead classroom activites look like
- Be able to create specific student lead classroom activities based on the the criteria covered in this mini course
- Be able to assess the success of student lead classrooms.
Task Analysis
PREREQUISITES
Essential
- teaching experience
- an understanding of differnet learning pedogogy's and how to analyse and critique them
- and understanding of of how to analyse and critique learning activities
- and understanding of of learning activites and how to build them
- and understanding of how to assess the success of learning activities
Supporting
- Openess to try new classroom activies.
- Works good in groups.
Course Map
Unit One
- What is a student lead classroom activity
- Learning the major conepts and characteristics that discriminate a student lead classroom from a teacher lead classroom.
Unit Two
- How do I convert parts of a traditional classroom activty to student led components.
- How do I create a complete student led classroom activity
Unit Three
- Develop a plan to assess student lead classroom activities.