Week 11: Lesson Planning Workshop

This week will be devoted to kickstarting your Lesson Plan Project. You must bring to class Parts A an B. See below for details.

Option 1 (if teaching a lesson by Dec 3 is not possible)

For this assignment, you should analyze and adapt an existing lesson or short unit so that it will support students’ disciplinary literacy learning in your current (or anticipated) professional context. You will need to select a specific lesson or short unit on which to focus. The starting materials can be ones that you have designed/taught, or they can come from a curricular source or publisher.

Part A: Select a focal lesson/unit. Attach it (scanned pages are fine).

Part B: Analyze the lesson or unit to determine the extent to which it already supports disciplinary purposes and practices.  What will be most important to change in order to use this plan for disciplinary literacy teaching?  Why? Connect your analysis to class readings. Length: 1.5-2 pages.

Option 2 (if teaching a lesson by December 3rd is possible)

For this assignment, you should design a lesson or short unit so that it will support students’ disciplinary literacy learning in your current professional context. Then, try it out with your students and reflect on how it went. You should only select this option if you are able to complete a full cycle of lesson design, lesson enactment, and lesson reflection by December 3rd.

Part A: Design a lesson or short unit that will engage students in a disciplinary literacy within a disciplinary inquiry cycle.  Incorporate: 

• Ways to engage students in disciplinary inquiry
  • What will students be investigating? 
  • How will they investigate it? 
  • What texts will they read and write? 
• Ways to support students’ success
  • How will you support students’ disciplinary reading and writing?
  • How will you support their disciplinary talk?
• Ways of assessing students’ learning
  • How will you gather information about what students are learning?
  • How will you gather information about how their disciplinary reading, writing, and reasoning is developing?

Part B: Justify your lesson design. Why have you made the specific decisions that you’ve made? How did you draw from and adapt the ideas in the class readings? Length: 3 pages.