Present Your Improved Lesson

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How does your improved lesson compare to the Learning Activity Checklist? How does your lesson reflect the lesson improvement process?

Introduction

We are working to be a professional learning community. One dimension of such work is peer review and accountability. Our next activity reflects this type of work.

You are going to give each other guided tours of your improved lessons, explaining how you used the lesson improvement process to produce a lesson that:

• Is practical.
• Is realistic.
• Incorporates the attributes of the Learning Activity Checklist.

In this way you will be "defending" your lesson in the same sense that a lawyer presents a defense or that a doctoral student defends a dissertation before a panel of experts in the field.

Part A: Prepare

Lesson improvement teams prepare for a tour and defense of their lesson. Participants use their Preparing to Present handout to prepare to answer these questions:

• In what ways are the Learning Activity Checklist components addressed in our improved lesson?
• How did we apply the steps of the lesson improvement process in completing our work?
• Why do we believe the improved lesson is practical and realistic, with reference to all necessary resources and supports?
• What is the best way to provide a guided tour of our lesson so that others can understand its merits?

Part B: Guided Tour

Two lesson improvement teams pair up:

• One person from each team remains with their team's lesson.
• Individual members of the two different teams form A/B partners.
• Person A presents and "defends" his or her team's lesson while Person B provides feedback.
• Partners switch roles and repeat, so that both lessons are presented and receive feedback.

Conclusion

Discuss your experience of the Guided Tour and defense of your lesson with the group.

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