Lesson Planning
August 2014
Session Outcomes
• Develop a lesson plan for your micro teach
session that leads to desired learning
outcomes and aligns to learning activities and
evaluation.
• Identify the key components of course
outlines and discuss how course outlines are
used to guide course planning.
Agenda
• What is a lesson plan and why use one?
• Common Elements in the course outline and how
they effect lesson planning
• Learning Outcomes… What are they?
• How to develop a lesson plan using the Jumpstart
Template
Brainstorming Activity
• What is a lesson plan?
• Why use a lesson plan?
The Big Picture
Course Outlines
• All college courses have a course outline that describes the outcomes,
evaluations, and teaching sequence of the course
• Course outlines are formal documents representing the college, our
schools and our programs.
• Course Outlines function primarily as an information and learning tool for
our students but are also the primary vehicle for course planning.
• Course outlines are a contractual agreement that defines the course
content and the criteria by which a student is evaluated.
Course Outline
Scavenger Hunt
Here are 5 samples of course outlines (one from
each eastern region college)
Work in pairs to find the common elements below:
• Course Learning Outcomes (CLRs)
• Weekly learning plan/topics
• Evaluation/Assessment criteria
Learning Outcomes
• In Ontario we are an
outcomes based
education system: what
does this mean?
Outcomes-based Curriculum
What should these students be able to do out
there in real-life roles, that we’re responsible
for teaching and guiding in here, in this course
or program?
Ruth Stiehl
Program Learning Outcomes
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Program Learning Outcomes Video
Outcomes Review
Structure of an Outcome activity
• Use the colored cards to develop an outcome
that has a:
• Performance verb
• Context
• standard
Lesson Plans
• Always start with an outcome for your session
• How to develop a lesson plan using the
Jumpstart Model
• Jumpstart Lesson Planning Video
Your turn…
Fill in the Template
• Locate the handout entitled “Using the Jumpstart
Lesson Plan Template”
• Record the activities that were used today into
the correct area of this lesson plan template.
• What was the connection activity today?
• What were the content/practice activities?
• What was the summary activity?
List of activities
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Brainstorming activity: Why use Lesson Plans?
Brief Lecture on course outlines
Course Outline Scavenger Hunt
Learning Outcomes Video
• Structure of an Outcome Activity
• Lesson Plans Video
Summary Activity
• Write an outcome for your microteach
• Fill in the lesson plan provided for your
microteach session
Handouts to help you plan your
Microteach
• Excerpt from Bloom’s taxonomy
• Jumpstart lesson plan template
• Jumpstart lesson plan reference hand-out