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Session 31: TLO #5: U2L3 - The Need for Addressing

65 minutes

lesson exploration

Purpose

This is our first layer of the internet that is introduced to participants.

Objectives

  • Participants understand how to make choices and use strategies to increase student engagement at different points in a lesson

Supplies & Prep

Room Setup:

  • Normal Breakout Room Set Up

Facilitator Supplies:

Participant Materials:

  • Writing utensil
  • Journal
  • Computers

Agenda

Intro and Lesson (45 minutes)

Debrief (20 minutes)

Facilitation Guide

Intro and Lesson (45 minutes)

(2 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.

(2 minutes) Previously On

  • This lesson follows the previous lesson you saw.
  • This is the third lesson that introduces the layers of the internet to students.

(1 minute) Reinforce Roles

Remind people of what it means to be a learner or a teacher. Have them put their hats on before handing it over to the teaching group.

Facilitator Tip

If your participants are planning on implementing this lesson in a socially-distanced or virtual setting, they can access the Lesson Modifications document to review how to adjust.

(40 minutes) Lesson

Be attentive to what is happening during the lesson as you select your debrief goals, reflection prompts, and discussion prompts. 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.

Debrief (20 minutes)

Debrief process reminder:

  • (~5 minutes) Start with projecting the reflection question(s) on the board or writing it on chart paper. Have the participants who acted as learners reflect on the reflection prompt(s) individually and then share their thoughts with a partner.
    • While the room is reflecting and sharing with a partner, have the teaching group discuss and be prepared to share their “Choices, Advice, and Takeaways”.
  • When the teaching group is ready, have them share their Choices, Advice, and Takeaways with the room to start the debrief.
  • After they have shared, applaud the teaching group and lead the group discussion using the discussion prompts. Once again, post discussion prompts to help keep track of the conversation.

Suggested Debrief Plan
To Watch for During the Lesson Essential
Practices
Teachers encourage engagement and discovery at all points of the lesson - unplugged, plugged, and discussions.
Potential Teaching Group Decisions
  • Teachers manage transitions by being clear with directions.
  • Teachers allow for a certain amount of productive confusion and intervene on a group or individual level when the confusion is unproductive (not working toward understanding the problem or solution of addressing).
  • Teachers use class-wide discussions as sense-making opportunities with the content.
If the essential practices, listed above, are present in the lesson we recommend the following for your debrief:
Debrief Direction Topic Student engagement
Goal Teachers understand how to make choices and use strategies to increase student engagement at different points in a lesson.
To reach this goal, consider using the following reflection and discussion prompts:
Debrief Suggestions Reflection
Prompt
As a learner, draw a graph of your engagement over time during this lesson. Consider different points in the lesson: the warm-up, the unplugged scheduling task, scheduling in the internet simulator, formalizing the rules, and the wrap-up conversation.

Share your graph with a partner at a different table. Discuss:
  • Are they the same or different?
  • What are points of high engagement in this lesson? What made them highly engaging to you?
Discussion
Prompts
  • What portions of this lesson will be more or less engaging for your students? Why do you think that?
  • In your classroom, what does the “ideal” engagement graph look like for this lesson?

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