Pedagogical Points
Lesson plans are written descriptions of how students will meet specific objectives by engaging in selected learning experiences. A lesson plan should include:
- Pre planning tasks
- Lesson set-up
- Lesson opening
- Lesson body
- Lesson closure
- Extended learning
- Assessment of learning
Lesson plans are developed, not as a first step, but as a last step
in complex curriculum planning. Within specific disciplines, the
planning begins with a determination of student needs, generally by a
set of state standards, along with information about the individual
student. This curriculum is then divided into units, and then lessons.
Effective lessons are guided by the specific objectives the student is
to achieve.
Welcome!
At Winston Salem State University, faculty are gradually moving away
from strictly traditional classroom methods, assignments and
assessments, and becoming adept with electronic modes of teaching and
learning. This move toward increased technology in the classroom is
designed to reach students in new ways –ways that can better accommodate
the different learning needs and styles that cannot always be met in the
classroom by one professor.
New populations of learners have taken seats in college classrooms
–learners who have grown up in an era where information is not always
stored cognitively, but electronically, learners who speak English, but
not as their first language, and learners who have special challenges
and must be accommodated. College faculties everywhere are searching for
solutions as they work to provide each and every student with an
excellent education. Slowly, but surely, college professors are
recognizing the tremendous benefits of classroom technologies as they
attempt to meet the plethora of learning needs and styles. But before
they can truly help students to learn more, learn faster and learn more
actively, they themselves must embark upon the technology integration
journey.
My page is designed to help you traverse the hurdles that sometimes
present themselves along the way toward learning new things.
