OER4Schools/Designing interactive lesson plans: Difference between revisions

Think about incorporating interactive elements in your lesson plans. Discuss ideas with your group. Plan the lesson in detail, so every activity is described in enough detail that someone else could teach from your plan.

However, allow for some flexibility according to learners’ responses. Remember at the end of Eness’s lesson (Clip 12), she set the learners a research task for homework because they had not come to a consensus view about whether a bat was a bird or not.  

'''Including all learners. '''How can you ensure that everyone is participating actively?  

For example, you saw how Eness (Clip 1) required every child to think of their own example of an animal. Are there other techniques you can use, especially if you have a large class where that might be too time consuming?  

Are there any learners that may have difficulty with the tasks?

'''Differentiation'''. Think too about how you will cater for slower and faster learners – can the faster learners get further or get more work done than the slower ones? Do you need to have additional, more challenging work ready for them to do if they finish an activity before their peers?

Choose one or more new ideas to add to the one you already tried last time, e.g.

* Brainstorm

* Mini-blackboard use, with or without student presentations

* A question-and-answer session with students as to what they might want to learn. (You would need to then take those requests seriously!)

* Think of a general question, that has many answers (e.g. name mammals) rather than a single answer. Ask children to come to the board one-by-one, and write (e.g. a mammal) on the board.

* A practical or outdoors activity

As soon as you have taught this lesson, '''REFLECT''' on it as you did before when you trialled a new activity. Use your dictaphone to record your reflections. You may want to write down a few brief notes too, so you can remember the issues arising when you come to the next workshop session, as you will be asked to share your reflections with others then (focusing on how the lesson went, how learners responded, and what you would change if you taught it again).