Teaching+Strategies

** with Distributed Summarizing ** ** and Graphic Organizer ** At the beginning of your Lesson Plan, you listed Assessment Prompt 1: Assessment Prompt 2: Assessment Prompt 3:
 * Teaching Component of the Lesson Plan **

Each of these was filled with a concept that students had to be taught in order to answer the LEQ. //For example:// LEQ: How does a bill become a law? Assessment Prompt 1: sequence of steps in a bill becoming a law Assessment Prompt 2: the role of the President in whether a bill becomes a law Assessment Prompt 3:

NOW…..

In the Teaching part of your lesson plan, you DESCRIBE what you will do to TEACH these concepts. (This may reference PP slides, textbook pages, or other materials…this is the BULK of the lesson plan, and, in most cases, what made up most of past lesson plans. This is for YOU. It is flexible and can be as detailed as you like. Here is where additional lesson plans you are using should be included and eliminated.

//For example://
 * Instruction for AP #1:** Read House Mouse, Senate Mouse to complete the flow chart graphic organizer showing the steps in a bill being sent to the President. Students create non-verbal representations to go with each step on the graphic organizer.


 * AP #1:** Give each pair an envelope with the different steps involved in a bill becoming a law to put in the correct order


 * Instruction for AP #2:** Use my PP slides to explain the three choices the President can make when a bill is sent to the Oval Office and what happens in each case. Have students use structured note-taking handout.


 * AP #2:** Think-Ink-Share: Who has greater power in a bill becoming a law: House, Senate, President? Why?

Feel free to cut and paste charts, graphs, pictures…anything…into the Teaching part of the lesson plan. This is also what a sub could easily follow to teach your lesson.

You could also make notes here if you only got through the first AP in a period, to pick up with Instruction for AP 2 next class.

As for the GRAPHIC ORGANIZER...

The GO can be used effectively in a few ways: 1) As an Advanced Organizer given at the beginning of a lesson and used for previewing purposes to answer the LEQ. 2) To preview the VOCABULARY of a lesson 3) As an organizer within the Teaching Strategies to help the student answer the LEQ during the lesson.

When the GO is not being used for vocabulary, it should serve as a one-page, visual resource for students to answer the LEQ. (Students could use the GOs associated with each lesson to study for a Unit assessment!)