Creative and Innovative Lesson Presentation for Meaningful Teaching and Learning From Concept to Classroom Delivery

Approaches to Instruction Brain Based Learning: enhancing information processing by instructional scaffolding Do all of my students know how to make sense of this source of information ? (reception) Do all of my students know how to manipulate the information in the way I am asking them to (transformation) Do all of my students know how to produce information in the format I am requesting (production)

Brain Based Learning: enhancing information processing by instructional scaffolding

Do all of my students know how to make sense of this source of information ? (reception)

Do all of my students know how to manipulate the information in the way I am asking them to (transformation)

Do all of my students know how to produce information in the format I am requesting (production)

Remember Between spoon feeding learners and allowing learners to sink or swim is instructional scaffolding Do 20% scaffolding that would address 80% of student inefficiency Scaffold less as learners internalize structures and skills “ The best teacher is one who becomes useless to the students in the end.”

Between spoon feeding learners and allowing learners to sink or swim is instructional scaffolding

Do 20% scaffolding that would address 80% of student inefficiency

Scaffold less as learners internalize structures and skills

“ The best teacher is one who becomes useless to the students in the end.”

Inquiry Based Learning “Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers” Voltaire Inquiry: not just asking questions Considers: Context Framework Focus Levels

“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers”

Voltaire

Inquiry: not just asking questions

Considers:

Context

Framework

Focus

Levels

Inquiry Based Learning Traditional Teaching Seeking right answers to questions What we know Learning about technology Inquiry-based Teaching Seeking appropriate resolutions to questions or issues How we come to know Using technology to enhance learning

Traditional Teaching

Seeking right answers to questions

What we know

Learning about technology

Inquiry-based Teaching

Seeking appropriate resolutions to questions or issues

How we come to know

Using technology to enhance learning

Inquiry Based Learning Traditional Teaching Recipient of knowledge Assess mastery of content Concerned with in -school success Closed System Classroom and Textbook Lesson Plan Inquiry-based Teaching Construction of Knowledge Assess content understanding and skills development Life Long learning Open System connecting learning to world communication via technology Facilitation Plan

Traditional Teaching

Recipient of knowledge

Assess mastery of content

Concerned with in -school success

Closed System Classroom and Textbook

Lesson Plan

Inquiry-based Teaching

Construction of Knowledge

Assess content understanding and skills development

Life Long learning

Open System connecting learning to world communication via technology

Facilitation Plan

Sample Questions Traditional What are the names and sizes of earth layers? What is hop-hop music In what year was Lincoln killed? Inquiry-based Who has gone below in the depths of the earth? How come we know that there are earth layers? What musical styles does hop-hop draw from What factors caused his assassination

Traditional

What are the names and sizes of earth layers?

What is hop-hop music

In what year was Lincoln killed?

Inquiry-based

Who has gone below in the depths of the earth?

How come we know that there are earth layers?

What musical styles does hop-hop draw from

What factors caused his assassination

ESA Lesson Sequences Engage Study Activate Engage Study Activate Engage Activate Study

Insight “The best tools are in the hands of those who use them.” “We cannot do great things , only little things with great love.” Mother Theresa

“The best tools are in the hands of those who use them.”

“We cannot do great things , only little things with great love.” Mother Theresa