Day 1
01 Intro 02 CSD Overview 03 Break 04 ML 1: U1L3 05 Tools and Strategies 06 Lunch 07 ML 2: U1L7 08 Tools and Strategies 09 Lesson Assignments 10 Break 11 Lesson Planning 12 Wrap Up 13 Fac. Debrief
Day 2
14 Intro 15 ML 3: U2L2 16 Tools and Strategies 17 Break 18 Lesson Planning 19 Lunch 20 ML 4: U2L3 21 Break 22 Tools and Strategies 23 TLO 1: U2L5 24 Wrap Up 25 Fac. Debrief
Day 3
26 Intro 27 Understanding Context 28 TLO 2: U2L6 29 Break 30 TLO 3: U2L9 31 Lunch 32 TLO 4: U2L11 33 Classroom Culture 34 Break 35 TLO 5: U2L16 36 Wrap Up 37 Fac. Debrief
Day 4
38 Intro 39 Bias and Responsibility 40 Unit 3 Intro 41 Break 42 TLO 6: U3L2 43 TLO 7: U3L3 44 Lunch 45 Differentiation 46 TLO 8: U3L4 47 Break 48 Content Wrap Up 49 Barriers, Opportunities, and Commitments 50 Wrap Up 51 Fac. Debrief
Day 5
52 Intro 53 Prep for the Year 54 Assessment 55 Break 56 Revisit Topics 57 Community 58 Lunch 59 Planning 60 Closing Ceremonies 61 End Early & Friday Facilitator Debrief

Session 28: TLO 2: U2L6 Styling Text with CSS

65 minutes

lesson exploration

Purpose

Essential Practice: Teachers incorporate opportunities for student collaboration into the lesson

Potential Teaching Group Decisions:

  • Encourage students to discuss questions with a partner before asking for help from the teacher
  • During discussions, have students collaborate with table teams to develop group answers
  • Encourage students to work together to solve bugs

Debrief Topic: Peer Collaboration

Objectives

  • Participants brainstorm ways to promote student collaboration during skill building lessons
  • Participants are able to use CSS to change the style of text on a web page

Supplies & Prep

Room Setup:

  • Participants are seated in pods

Facilitator Supplies and Prep:

Teacher Materials:

Agenda

Kick Off (5 minutes)

Lesson (40 minutes)

Debrief (20 minutes)

Facilitation Guide

Kick Off (5 minutes)

(3 minutes) Teaching Group Set Up

Teaching group sets up whatever they need for the lesson.

(2 minutes) Previously On

Show Unit calendar to highlight where we are in the unit.

(1 minute) Role Reminders

Facilitators reminds everyone of their roles during the model lesson

Remarks

Put your hats on and let's get ready to go!

Lesson (40 minutes)

Facilitator Instructions

Be attentive to what is happening during the lesson as you select your debrief goals, reflection prompts, and discussion prompts. During the lesson, it is recommended that you communicate with your co-facilitator to share what you are seeing in the lesson and develop a shared understanding of the goal of the debrief for the lesson. You can communicate through Slack or through passing notes to one another. You are looking for the teaching group to demonstrate the “Essential practice” and “Teaching group decisions” identified in the debrief below.

Lesson Plan Link

Lesson Slides Link

Lesson Objectives

  • Students will be able to:
  • Use CSS selectors to style HTML text elements.
  • Link to an external style sheet.
  • Explain the differences between HTML and CSS in both use and syntax.

Lesson Overview This lesson introduces CSS as a way to style elements on the page. Students learn the basic syntax for CSS rule-sets and then explore properties that impact HTML text elements. They work on a HTML page about Guinness World Record holders, adding their own style to the provided page.

Question of the Day: How can we change the style of text on a webpage?

Debrief (20 minutes)

Suggested Debrief Plan
Be Sure to Model Essential
Practices		 Teachers incorporate opportunities for student collaboration into the lesson
Potential Teaching Group Decisions
  • Encourage students to discuss questions with a partner before asking for help from the teacher
  • During discussions, have students collaborate with table teams to develop group answers
  • Encourage students to work together to solve bugs
If the essential practices, listed above, are present in the lesson we recommend the following for your debrief:
Debrief Direction Topic Peer collaboration
Goal Brainstorm ways to promote student collaboration during skill building lessons
To reach this goal, consider using the following reflection and discussion prompts:
Debrief Suggestions Reflection
Prompt		 As a learner, what benefits do you get from collaborating with your peers? What are the challenges?
Teaching group returns and shares "Choices, Advice, and Takeaways"
Discussion
Prompts
  • What are the potential risks to incorporating student collaboration into your class? How might these potential challenges impact inclusion? What can you do to overcome these challenges?
  • With your table, brainstorm ways that you could promote productive student collaboration in your classroom.

Discussion Goal: The goal is for teachers to share tips and strategies with each other to support students collaboration.

Facilitator Note: As you discuss this prompt, look for places to draw out the decisions for this lesson, listed above.