CADET CORPS LESSON PLAN TEMPLATE
Name of Instructor:
Joann Tortarolo
28 Jun 2010
Start time:
10 a.m.
End Time:
10:55 a.m.
Number of Cadets:
30
Location of Class:
Cadet Corps
Classroom
Asst. Instructor(s):
Total length of
class:55 minutes
Step 1: Decide what you want your cadets to know and be able to do at the end of your
instruction.
Select which CACC Standard you will be teaching:
Standard 1: Patriotism
X Standard 2: Academics
Standard 3: Bas Mil. Subj.
Standard 4: Fitness
Standard 5: Drill/Ceremonies
Standard 6: First Aid
X Standard 7: Map Reading
Standard 8: Leadership
Which objective(s) will you be teaching (from the listing of CACC Standards and Objectives)?
Write the objective(s) here:
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#2n. Know about current local, state, national, and international events.
#2a. Know how to properly take notes.
#7g. Know how to measure direction using an azimuth.
Step 2: Decide how you will know your cadets have learned what you taught. Select the
method(s) you will use to ASSESS their understanding, knowledge, and skill:
Quiz / test
X Performance task
Fitness activity
Worksheet
Art activity
Group project
Oral questions
Singing / song
Group (squad) quiz
Game
Marching
Discussion
Essay/Paragraph
Team Sport
X Other
Notetaking
Step 3: Write out the steps you will use to get the cadets to learn the material you are presenting
so they are successful on the assessment.
A: Engaging Beginning – What will you do to get the cadets interested in your topic?
As a starter activity, instructor will select three current event topics from the newspaper, internet,
or television as part of an ongoing discussion of current events. Current event topics of the day
will be placed in a corner of the Board dedicated to current events. Instructor will involve cadets
in a short discussion of the day’s three topics. Cadets will take Cornell notes to record the
discussion of the three topics. Topics will be chosen for ongoing interest and discussion. Squad
leaders will review the notes taken and record completion.
The main part of the lesson is focused on the use of azmiths by cadets to determine distance and
follow a trail of points. The platoon leader will give the students instruction on how to shoot an
azmith. Once the instruction is given, the squad leaders will work with their squads to conduct
the activity.
B: Activate Prior Knowledge – How will you get cadets to show you what they already know
about the topic?
Since the current events topics will be part of an ongoing discussion, ties will be made to current
events already discussed. Cadets will be asked what event happened that is in the news. How
did it relate to what we have already talked about? What is new that has happened?
The main part of the lesson addresses information that will be important to cadets in completing
the forthcoming Land Navigation Bivouac. The platoon leader and squad leaders will be asked
to describe how this information will be helpful to cadets on the bivouac. It is also building on a
prior lesson on how a compass works.
C: Direct Instruction – What information will you present to your cadets through direct
delivery?
Direct Instruction will center on the use of compasses to determine direction. The cadet
instructors will go through how to shoot an azmith. A review of pacing techniques will also be
included.
D: Group Practice – What questions / activities will cadets do in small groups to practice the
skills you have just taught?
The cadets will be broken down into squads to use a compass to follow a set of points. The
Instructor will have set up a course that corresponds to the points given to the students. Students
will follow the given angles and paces to complete the course. Instructor will then check their
results as they return to the classroom.
E: Independent Practice – What questions / activities will cadets do individually to practice the
skills you have just taught?
On the next day, cadets will reflect on their experiences in following the angles and distances.
They will identify what they did right and what they had problems with. This will serve as the
basis for Independent Practice on succeeding days.
F: Assessment: What will you now do to make sure that the “Message Given” is the “Message
Received? How will you test cadets’ knowledge, skill, and understanding of this topic?
(specifics)
The current events activity will be monitored by the review of the Cornell notes which will yield
information on the current events and on their notetaking skills.
The azmith activity will yield a set of places (indicated by letters on labels on the course) that
describe the cadet groups’ activities in working with the compass. It will be possible to assess
their success by how well they have found the points they have been assigned. If it looks as if
the cadets were successful, it will be possible to move on. If the cadets were not successful, then
there is a need to have a “re-engineering” lesson.
G: Re-teaching: What steps will you take to help cadets who “do not get it” the first time the
material is taught?
As you pointed out today, re-teaching is really re-engineering. It would be important to discuss
the “mistakes” made in the field with the compass to decipher where the disconnects were
occurring. Once that “lesson” has occurred, it would be important to re-run the activity to see if
the needs of the cadets were met.
Step 4: Gather the materials you need for the class. What materials will you need for the class?
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Current events activities
Paper and writing implements to take notes
Sufficient compasses to allow the groups to travel their assigned course.
An outside course set up to correspond to the points that the cadets would be following.
Step 5: After the class: What went well in your class and what would you do differently next
time to make the class better?