Team+Planning

You and your partner(s) have given a presentation together. You have two more projects to go as a team. Before you start the next planning, reflect on your strengths and talents as a team and determine how you can improve your teamwork skills. Then start your planning utilizing those strategies.


 * 1) Read the technology presentation reflection entries by your teammate(s)...what strengths and challenges did your teammates write about? How do they compare to what you worte? Have a conversation and discuss how you will build on your strengths and address your challenges as a team that works together when designing and presenting a lesson for the middle school.
 * 2) Do the Leadership Styles evaluation activity.
 * 3) Select a topic or two to teach to students who are currently in Algebra I that they probably haven't had yet and that utilizes your technology.
 * 4) You and your partner(s) will be co-teaching. Check out [|The Five Models of Co-Teaching (Friend and Cook, 1996)] (if you had SED 101, this should look familiar). Work with your team to determine which model (or combination of models) of co-teaching you plan to use.
 * 5) What's your hook?
 * 6) How will you address the WHERETOs?
 * 7) How will you balance individual learning and collaborative learning (they're a part of the WHERETOs but they're a big part of Standard 3
 * 8) How will you manage transitions efficiently?
 * 9) How will you lead discussions so that everyone feels comfortable contributing and the conversations stays civil?
 * 10) Fill out a [|UMF Lesson Plan Template Simplified] with your team's lesson plan. Finalize this plan together (this will probably involve multiple outside-of-class meetings). If your team chose "stations" as your co-teaching model and there will be different topics covered at the stations, make a lesson plan for each station.

NOTE: In addition to steps 3 and 4 from your past, steps 2, 5 and 6 relate directly to Maine's Common Core Teaching Standard 3 Learning Environments.