Transcript Lesson Plans Concepts And Setup

Concepts and Setup for
Lesson Planning
Discussion Agenda/Goals
• Overview
– Where Activities and Lesson Plans fit in
– Lesson Plan Philosophy
• Activities vs Lesson Plans
• Key Decisions
• Activities
– Setup (Administrative)
– Create an Activity
• Lesson Plans
– Setup (Administrative)
– Setup (Individual Teacher)
• Questions
BYOC: Phases and Parts
Class
+ Assessments
+ Announcements and Events
+ Discussions
+ Enhanced Assignments
Projections
Assignments
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Lesson Planning Philosophy
• Derived from the district-defined curriculum
• BYOC takes the components traditionally found in a
Lesson Plan and splits them into two basic components,
the Activity and the Lesson Plan.
Activity
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Stands the “Test of Time”
Content Specific
Student Generic
General What and How
Lesson Plan
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Student Focused
Scheduling
Point in Time
When and Exceptions
Key Decisions
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Two vs Three Step Process
Activity Fields (base lesson plan)
Lesson Plan Fields
Duration vs Time Schedules
Plan per Prep or Plan per Period
Public Access
Three‐Step Process
Step 1:
Core
Curriculum
Step 2:
Activity
Step 3:
Lesson
Plan
1. Develop, Review, and Publish the Core Curriculum
What should be covered and how long it will take
2. Create Activities within the Core Curriculum
How an individual teacher will teach the defined curriculum
3. Start Lesson Planning
Specifying what components from the curriculum
Selecting what activities they are going to use
Two‐Step Process
Step 1:
Core
Curriculum
Step 2:
Activities
and Lesson
Plans
1. Develop, Review, and Publish the Core Curriculum
What should be covered and how long it will take
2. Create Activities as you Lesson Plan
How an individual teacher will teach the defined curriculum
this year and possibly in the future
Activities
• Activities
– created at the topic level
– all educators can add activities
– can be published so the public can view them
• Setup
– Administrative Functions > Activity Options
• Resources – Help & Training Section / Curriculum Help /
Training Documentation
– / HOW TO-Create an Activity.pdf
– / Videos / HOW TO-Create An Activity.mp4
Lesson Plans
Setup
• Steps for Administration
– Enable Lesson Plans (Administrative Functions >
District Options > Show Lesson Plan Configuration)
– Optionally Create Lesson Plan Schedules
• Traditional Bell Schedule – High School / Middle
School
• Duration based Schedule – Elementary School
– Create Lesson Plan Templates
• Approvals – not recommended
• Require Dates/Times – use predefined schedule
Lesson Plans
Setup (continued)
• Steps for Teachers
– Create Classes
• Elementary – Usually one class (Mr. Smith’s 5th Grade), then align
to all relevant courses
• Middle and High School – Multiple classes ( U.S. History, World
History, Ancient History), may be divided by hour (1st Hour World
History, 3rd Hour World History, 4th Hour World History, 5th Hour
U.S. History, 7th Hour U.S. History)
– Set User Preferences for Lesson Plans
• Default View
• Report Options
• Plan Book Options – control what data will be shown on the Plan
Book view
• Resources – Help & Training Section / Curriculum Help / Setup
Documentation / HOW TO-Configure the Lesson Plan Component.pdf
Duration vs Time Based Schedules
Time Based Schedules
• Reflects periods typically used at the Middle and High School levels
Duration Base Schedules
• Typically used at the Elementary level to represent standard time
blocks where the sequence may vary, i.e. Reading Block, Math Block…
• Sometimes used at the Middle and High School level to represent
“preps”
No Schedule
• Actual start/end times entered
• Designed for Elementary, not often used
• Can be used for Non-Curriculum meetings and appointments
Plan per Prep vs Plan per Period
Plan per Period
• Most accurate approach, reflects plans for interacting with
each class of students
• Highest effort from teacher, requires reflection for each class
of the day
Plan per Prep
• Easiest for teachers
• More generic, basically scheduling an activity for the prep
without per class reflection
Public Access
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Defined at the template level
Can vary by field
Includes activities and attachments
Shows on Public Site, under Class Information menu item
Additional Items
• Activity Search
Questions
Support
• Phone
– 1-800-596-0735 ext. 0
• Email
– [email protected]