Friday, 5 February 2016

Lesson Plan Components

1. Bloom’s Taxonomy
For developing resources for Bloom’s Taxonomy, we go to the course development tools at The Centre for Teaching and Learning through Humber College. Like many of these resources on this blog, there are many links in the one resource. In this example we have links to the domains and explanations. There are blogs and even teaching tips on the subject.
3. Creating a Positive Learning Environment
For Positive Learning Environment, I have chosen, University of Saskatchewan / The Gwenna Moss Centre for Teaching Effectiveness, because of its videos, and multiple links to other resources on the bottom right side of the page. This section deal with all of the sections listed in developing this in the classroom, as well as strategies for implementation.
Then after the video section there are further step by step descriptive approaches, for further clarification. The website goes onto describe classroom management, as well as many of the other topics listed in this assignment. Resources inside this resource.
4. Motivational Techniques
The motivation of adult learners is probably one of the most important aspects of the lesson plan. Without the learner having motivation to lean, there is no education of the subject matter. For this reason, I have actually added four resources. Each in themselves okay, but together much stronger than the sum of the parts.
1.     Teaching techniques that motivate adult learners through the Cengage Learning web site has practical advice
2.     The eLearning Coach site offers thirty motivational techniques
3.     The Faculty Focus site only offers 9 strategies
4.     And finally UMBC.edu gives motivational strategies
5. Assessment
With respect to assessment in the lesson plan, we are looking at both formative and summative assessments. The resources for these are usually specific to the institution or awarding body that the program is being run under, but there are also some resources that appear to be useful in the planning stage. Here are two that I think look handy;
1.     Starting Point has a How to Assessment Strategies page which give some very good examples
2.     And although we have used this site before, the Course Development Tools at the Humber College site are also useful
7. Media
When it comes to resources for media in lesson planning, there are just too many sites to mention. I have only added a few of those that I use now.
·         Edtechteacher is a really good resource for resources to Google Classroom
·         The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has free course material that I have used in the past
·         This is similar to the Khan Academy Canada, edx, Umedy, and Lynda University

·         In the courses I am teaching now, I use both GCF Learning Free, and Law Lessons of Canada

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