For my final project, I would like to create a page on how to write a lesson plan. Students with the education minor or in the teacher certification program must write an astounding number of lesson plans before they graduate (during student teaching we have to write one every day for the entire semester.) More importantly, the university encourages us to continue writing well-developed lesson plans throughout our teaching careers. For teachers, the ability to write a thorough, clear, specific lesson plan is an important skill to have.
Unfortunately, there appear to me to be many students who struggle with writing lesson plans. Different professors seem to have different expectations of content and organization, and out of the six or so education courses that require the writing of a lesson plan, only one of them teaches students how to do so (and that class can be taken after many of the other courses in which lesson plans are assigned.) In my experience, there are some common misconceptions that some professors address and some do not. I would like to address these misconceptions as well as general format, writing style, and process involved with writing a lesson plan (brainstorming is crucial.) I intend to interview Professors Scott Bray and Jim Lanham and focus mainly on correcting the misconceptions, their expectations as well as the schools, and any personal advice they would like to give.
Potential Resources:
Bartholomae, “The Study of Error”
Kendall, “The Assignment Sheet Mystery”
McGlaun, “Reflections on Teacher Comments
The current page,
ReplyDeletehttp://writing2.richmond.edu/writing/wweb/education/lessonplan.html
Really only gives general guidelines. I want your project to not only flesh this out but to add an actual annotated lesson plan. That would really add value to the site.
You could consider doing audio commentary for an iMovie about this, as David Wright has done for thesis statements here:
http://writing2.richmond.edu/writing/wweb/thesis2.html