How to know if you have a good lesson plan? First, it should be structured like a film by Michael Mann. It mustn’t go on too long, But should read like a song. And at the end feel like you’ve done the can-can!
"What we imagine a typical lesson planning session would look like."
This weeks lecture was an overview of the VELS standards and, how to approach a lesson plan.
VELS describes the basic learning standards for students to achieve from prep through to year ten across Victorian shools. VELS is organised in strands, domains and Dimensions.
There are 3 interwoven strands
1. Physical, personal and social learning
2. Discipline based learning
3. Interdisciplinary learning
The strands are then broken into domains. eg physical education learning, LOTE and communications.
The domains can then be broken down into dimensions. eg maths dimensions, such as numbers.
Once the VELS standards were covered the lecture moved onto the topic of how to create a lesson plan using a step by step guide.
To be included in a lesson plan a teacher should:
- have a learning purpose
- have a procedure of how the lesson will take place
- how the lesson will take place
- a list of materials
- a clear view of how the lesson will finish
By having these hard copy plans of lessons in place, a teacher can then use these for further lessons in years to come. To be included in the lesson plan as well a teacher should note observations of students' learning and also include there own reflections on completion of the lesson.
The lecture was done using a step by step guide and during the workshop a sample lesson plan was produced by the class. This was a valuable class as it showed how exactly to produce a lesson and actually produce one , rather than just look at examples. Without this particualr class future work has been simplified and been put into a neat and structured format.
Week 4 - Lesson Planning
How to know if you have a good lesson plan?
First, it should be structured like a film by Michael Mann.
It mustn’t go on too long,
But should read like a song.
And at the end feel like you’ve done the can-can!
"What we imagine a typical lesson planning session would look like."
This weeks lecture was an overview of the VELS standards and, how to approach a lesson plan.
VELS describes the basic learning standards for students to achieve from prep through to year ten across Victorian shools. VELS is organised in strands, domains and Dimensions.
There are 3 interwoven strands
1. Physical, personal and social learning
2. Discipline based learning
3. Interdisciplinary learning
The strands are then broken into domains. eg physical education learning, LOTE and communications.
The domains can then be broken down into dimensions. eg maths dimensions, such as numbers.
Once the VELS standards were covered the lecture moved onto the topic of how to create a lesson plan using a step by step guide.
To be included in a lesson plan a teacher should:
- have a learning purpose
- have a procedure of how the lesson will take place
- how the lesson will take place
- a list of materials
- a clear view of how the lesson will finish
By having these hard copy plans of lessons in place, a teacher can then use these for further lessons in years to come. To be included in the lesson plan as well a teacher should note observations of students' learning and also include there own reflections on completion of the lesson.
The lecture was done using a step by step guide and during the workshop a sample lesson plan was produced by the class. This was a valuable class as it showed how exactly to produce a lesson and actually produce one , rather than just look at examples. Without this particualr class future work has been simplified and been put into a neat and structured format.
Rob W