Unit 2: What Are The Key Elements of This Lesson?

Unit 2: Students will successfully identify the most crucial objectives, as well as unnecessary constraints in a lesson.

Lesson 3: Participants will identify the most crucial pieces of a lesson.

Learners will complete a quiz identifying elements of a lesson they think are most important

Learners will practice paring down lesson plans to the most crucial parts

Link to the quiz here

After completing the quiz, find 1-3 of your own lesson plans. Look at the objectives that you have for your lessons and see if you can eliminate or change any, to be more inclusive of choice. Try to get each lesson down to 1-2 criteria that are crucial to the outcome of the lesson. Reflecting on your own work, or working with a group, think about how these changes would alter your lesson? Would the changes keep students from learning what you intend? Were your constraints necessary to the overall lesson?

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Lesson 4: Participants will identify unnecessary constraints.

Learners will review a given lesson plan, highlighting all the constraints

The link below is to a 4 day lesson for 6th grade students. You can either print out the document or view it on your computer. Review the lesson objectives and highlight the constraints. Make note of what changes could be made to add choice into the lesson. Pages 14 and 15 list the daily objective. Page 18 has the lesson criteria.

File:JApanese Scrolls Lesson for Mini Course.pdf

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