Summary
Below you will find files for our PowerPoint Presentation, our brief Lesson Plan with time stamps, instructions, and details, the online Discussion Board Prompt we crafted with readings, and my Group Lesson Plan Reflections. Please leaf through the PowerPoint first before reading the lesson plan! All files are in PDF form and able to be downloaded.
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Facilitating Discussion for TA's (PowerPoint) | |
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Group Lesson Plan Details (PDF) | |
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Discussion Prompt with Readings (PDF) | |
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Group Presentation Reflections (with Expansion Paragraph).pdf | |
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Supplemental Materials
As you can see from the Lesson Plan PDF, there are a variety of activities present. As for supplemental materials, we mainly used the PPT as a guide (since we embedded supplemental materials within the document). If one should choose to deliver this LP exactly as is, you will need a big bag of Halloween/other candy and paper bags. Everything else is included in the PPT and LP.
Implementation
This LP was different in that it was delivered to our 388V seminar, not ENGL101 students. My group felt that we could be more relaxed and 'experimental', if you will, within our seminar class because our fellow TA's are more talkative, open to activities, engaged, and participatory in comparison to the average ENGL101 class. Because of this, my group relied heavily on hands-on activities instead of lecture. Our topic was "Facilitating Discussion", which I was excited to teach. I've always felt that discussion is the core of every classroom; it is through discussion and exploration that content comes to be fully understood by students. I believe that all professors and educators should implement discussion in their classrooms because it allows students to A) create bonds with their classmates, B) create an open, more comfortable relationship between the educator/student, and C) allows for a variety of student opinions to be showcased and examined. With this being said, the LP incorporates three different forms of classroom discussion and our presentation involved having the seminar class engage in each type and then finish with a discussion about what worked well, what didn't, what they could use in the future, and why discussion is important. The assigned Discussion Board Prompt served as an introduction into the topic that was expanded upon with the LP. Overall, I was pleased with how our lesson turned out in class and seemed to be highly enjoyed by the entire class. I will definitely be coming back to this LP in the future, as it is good for using with classes similar to 388V, but also because it can easily be re-worked and re-written to best vit a variety of classrooms. It is a flexible LP that I will be utilizing well into my future.