Session 27: 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:

Full Cohort
Table Groups (3-4)

Facilitator Supplies and Prep:

CSD Module 3 Slides

Teacher Materials:

Agenda

Kick Off (5 minutes)

Lesson (40 minutes)

Debrief (20 minutes)

Facilitation Guide

Kick Off (5 minutes)

Producer Tip

You should have information from the teaching group on how they would like to handle breakout rooms. Verify that the information is correct during the break prior to the session

(3 minutes) Teaching Group Set Up

Teaching group sets up whatever they need for the lesson. If they can do this during break it will mean more debrief time.

Producer: Temporarily give the teaching group Co-Host privileges so that they can move in between breakout rooms.

Producer: If using breakout rooms, set up the participant rooms, a “Teacher” room, and a “Facilitator” room

(1 minute) 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 Tip

To make teachers feel more comfortable, it may be a good idea to turn off your camera throughout the lesson and/or change your name to “Facilitator - Ignore Me”. This can be helpful while moving through breakout rooms so “students” do not look to you for answers.

Facilitator Tip

If breakout rooms are used, it is important to get a sense of what is happening in them. As you move through the rooms, make sure that you are not providing input. If you are asked for it, remind teachers using chat that you are not a teacher right now and they can use the call for help button if needed.

Producer Tip

Just as with facilitators in breakout rooms, you may need to act as a “messenger” for the teachers. If a group presses the “call for help” button, you will need to find the teachers and inform them that a group is asking for help.

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.

Producer Tip

You will need a breakout room for the teaching group to debrief while the main group does their reflections.

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
Be Sure to Model	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
Debrief Direction	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. FACILITATOR NOTE: During your debrief, avoid the topic of teaching in the virtual world unless you know the majority of teachers will be virtual next year. Many teachers will be in person, and conversations about choices made for the virtual setting will not be helpful as teachers return to the classroom.