EXPLICIT TEACHING显性教学.doc

Focus! Engagement! Practice! A Guide to Teaching a Demonstration Lesson Please use this guide to think about and discuss the lesson you are planning to teach and how you will go about teaching it. Your mentor/observer will use the same guide to ask you questions and comment on your class. Please choose a lesson that is meaningful to students, worth teaching, and feasible for a one to two hour session. Be prepared to explain your lesson in detail at the next session and bring along the materials you are planning to use in teaching. STEP 1: Think about what to teach and make sure students have the requisite skills Well before the teaching day, decide on the skill or strategy you want to teach and decide what you want students to know and be able to do. Decide what learning opportunities you will provide so that all students can “get” the lesson. What topic or theme does your lesson belong to? What are the important knowledge, skills, and strategies associated with the topic? What will be the focus of your demonstration lesson? Why are you choosing this lesson rather than something else you could teach? What should students know and be able to do at the end of the lesson? What will you teach BEFORE the demonstration lesson to make sure that students have the knowledge, vocabulary and language skills to be able to handle the lesson? What learning opportunities will you provide to help ALL students attain the knowledge, skill, or strategy you want them to get? How will you know if students have the skills you want them to have at the end of the lesson? How do you know they got it? What tasks will you set up that allow you to see who’s getting it and who is struggling? Decide on all the materials you will need for the lesson and prepare hand outs What materials will you use to teach the skill and strategy, engage students, and get the point across? What hand-outs will students have to practice the skills you are tying to teach? What materials will you