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Topic: "The New Learning Environment"

Objective:

Students will recognize the importance of setting high expectations for all students in their instructional planning; and will include in their plans classroom strategies and resources that provide creative learning environments for their learners.

Accomplished Practice #10:   Planning

Survey:  This survey is a self-inventory for teachers in the classroom.  If you are a pre-service                teacher, please complete the survey as a preview of good classroom practice.               Survey for Accomplished Practice #10

Video:    Community HS (The School Story Video)                Go to the WebBoard and complete the weekly media reaction writing

Reading:  Creative outreach to students in classrooms might very well require that teachers reflect community values: http://eric.uoregon.edu/publications/digests/digest111.html

Internet Links:  Read the PROMO excerpt for the Community HS video and think of a similar secondary school that is an alternative theme school that has for its theme your content area, e.g., Drama School or Mathematics School of Language Arts School.  or go to the TeacherLINK site, found at the Accomplished Practices #10 website:   CHOOSE five (5) lesson plans that you believe would work better in an innovative theme school like your alternative theme school than in a conventional neighborhood middle or high school setting.

Community High School (CHS) is an alternative school committed to excellence and diversity. At CHS, "alternative" means that a variety of teaching styles and learning environments are employed to address the diverse needs and interests of its students.  Faculty, staff, students, and parents work together to build a dynamic alternative to traditional education.

Lesson: DIRECTIONS: Survey the lessons you identified above as innovative enough to be used in your alternative theme school.  Make notes on what strategies and resources you perceive as innovative.  Ask yourself why these strategies and resources fit better in a school like Community HS than in a conventional neighborhood school.

ASSIGNMENT: You are on the "short list" after the first round of interviews for a faculty position at a new neighborhood high school whose goal is to be different and innovative. You are one of three finalists.

The principal and the other members of the search committee have asked the three of you to submit a lesson plan that demonstrates your belief that all students can be successful learners and--at the same time--a lesson plan that will engage, motivate, and challenge your students.

Using some of the ideas from your above survey (specifically, learning strategies and resources), write the lesson plan that will get you the job in this brand new school.

E-mail your work:  jhoneych@fgcu.edu

EVALUATION:  Save your file.  You might choose to include work from this lesson in your portfolio.

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