Collaboratively+Teach+Your+Peers

15 points __Assignment Objectives:__
 * Collaboratively Teach Your Peers **
 * Teacher candidates will identify and describe the major theories of learning, human development, and motivation in relation to instructional practices and student engagement.
 * Teacher candidates will relate theories of learning, development, and motivation to the teaching-learning process with regard to student diversity (e.g., ethnic, cultural, cognitive).
 * Teacher candidates will identify methods for the evaluation and assessment of learning and teaching.
 * Teacher candidates will demonstrate an understanding ofthe cyclical relationship among learning objectives, instruction, and assessment practices in the k-12 classroom

__Purpose:__ “If you really want to learn something, teach it” is an adage that holds much truth. The purpose of this assignment is to provide students the opportunity to learn about learning by teaching the content. Because the content is related to theories of motivation and learning, the assignment provides the opportunity for the “teachers” to model specific theoretical constructs in action, specifically as they relate to classroom instruction.

Students are asked to work in groups for two reasons—effective collaboration is critical in the teaching field and it seems unreasonable to ask anyone to be solely responsible for a well-executed lesson so early in the process of learning to teach.

__Directions:__ Each group of students will teach a section of a chapter assigned by the course instructor. Each lesson should include the components listed below. It is expected that students will include information from sources outside of the textbook and that development of the lesson will require reading ahead, group meetings, and practice sessions. It is expected that all students in a group will share equally in contribution and in teaching.

Lesson should be 30-35 minutes in length—no shorter and no longer. Lessons shorter than 30 minutes will be required to continue until 30 minutes has passed. Longer lessons will be cut off at the 35-minute time limit, regardless of completion.

__Topics:__ Group 1: Development of phonological knowledge Group 2: Development of semantic knowledge Group 3: Development of syntactic knowledge Group 4: Development of morphemic knowledge <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Group 5: Development of pragmatic knowledge

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Each lesson should include the following:
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Lesson objectives (2-3 is probably a manageable number)
 * 2) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">A lesson plan designed to help the teachers meet those objectives. Click here for the lesson plan template.
 * 3) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Lesson plan includes some aspect of diversity (e.g., differentiated instruction, inclusion of information from various viewpoints based on race, gender, ethnicity, etc.)
 * 4) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Lesson plan includes an activity for the students (i.e., it is not just a lecture or presentation)
 * 5) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Some kind of assessment that measures how well students mastered the objectives

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">The information above, including any handouts, will be turned in to the course instructor by each group before you teach the lesson.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Additionally, individual members of each group will submit a lesson reflection (due the week following the lesson). <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Each reflection should include the following:
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Your judgment about the appropriateness of your lesson objectives
 * 2) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Your judgment about the appropriateness of the lesson that was planned
 * 3) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">The effectiveness of your execution of the lesson plan, overall and:
 * 4) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Regarding the inclusion and implementation of a diversity component
 * 5) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Regarding the inclusion and implementation of a student activity
 * 6) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">The effectiveness of your assessment (i.e., did it measure what you intended it to measure?)
 * 7) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">What you learned from the assessment
 * 8) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">If you were to teach this lesson over again, what you would do differently
 * 9) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Any other comments, insights, or questions you may have

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">The rubric for this assessment is available here. We will modify this rubric in class.