LESSON TWO Create your own student led activity

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"Dr. Martin found that by turning the students into teachers he increased dramatically their motivation. They not only spoke far more in each class, by working together they also overcame their inhibitions more quickly. A feeling of solidarity developed, the division of the class into an authority, the teacher, and a passive audience, the students, evaporated." Jody Skinner

LESSON TWO

-CREATE YOUR OWN STUDENT LED ACTIVITY-

In this lesson you will take a classroom activity that you currently use or a lesson you find online and change part of the lesson/activity so that you make some parts of the activity student led. You must use the information you have learned from the previous lesson to complete this activity. Remember we do not have to change the entire activity yet. We are moving in small steps. So the first step is to change just some of the activity over to use some of our student led concepts. By the end of this lesson you will be creating a student led activity from scratch.

You will begin this unit by watchin the following video

Learning Outcomes

You will be able to take a traditional classroom activity and change parts of it to make it a hybrid student led/teacher led activity.
You will be able to develop a student led activity from scratch

Activity 1

-Changing Part of an Activity-

Using the list of "student led activity" characteristics that you developed from your previous lesson and the video you watched to begin this lesson, you will begin to change some parts of a traditional classroom activity that you use by turning it into a student led activity.

Activity 2

-Group Sharing-

You will break up into groups and each person will share the student led activity that you developed in activity 1 and explain your thinking behind the changes you made to a traditional classroom activity.

Activity 3

-Group Feedback-

Once you have completed group sharing you will write up a short critique of your group-mates work. Focus on these questions when analyzing each one of your group-mates work;

What did you like?

What did you dislike?

What was confusing?

What would you do differently?

What characteristics from lesson one were include, and which one's were left out?

Once you have completed your critique you can give your notes to your groups-mates for later use.

Activity 4

-Create an Entire Student Led Activity-

Now that you have began implementing student led activity characteristics into a traditional classroom activity we are ready to build a student led activity from scratch. Please draw up a student led activity. Two things you must include in your student led activity

You need to implement the characteristics of what makes up a student led activity from Lesson 1.
You must use some of your group-mates feedback that you received from there previous activity in this lesson, in the final version of your activity.

Activity 5

-Reflective Writing-

Please write a reflective post about your experience in this lesson.

Did you have a difficult time implementing part of the "studen led" model into your own traditional classroom activity?

Did you have a difficult time creating student led activity from scratch?

Please write about your thinking during these activities

References

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