Facilitating+Lesson+Plan

__Activity Objective:__ To provide and receive feedback on a lesson design by exploring the lesson itself along with three student samples of learning.

__ PART I - Lesson Plan Peer Analysis: __ Each teacher should share __five copies__ of each of the following:

• Copy of a lesson plan they have taught this school year • A student work sample that exceeded expectations • A student work sample that met expectations • A student work sample that was below expectations

Additional information: • The lesson plan does not necessarily need to have used technology. • Student names should be removed from work samples. • Identifying grades should be removed from work samples.

__PART__ __II - Lesson Plan Peer Analysis Session:__ • Teachers should sit in assigned teams. • One teacher should volunteer to go first. • Another teacher in the group should volunteer to be the facilitator. The facilitator reads the questions and keeps the group on task. • The teacher who volunteered to be peer reviewed should hand out the copies of the lesson plan and work samples to the other teachers in the group. Next, the teacher should give a brief synopsis of the lesson plan to the group. • All teachers should answer the questions on the peer review process form. The teacher who brought the lesson plan should just listen. (You do not need to record answers).

Additional Information: • Note the purpose of doing the peer review is as teachers hear others discuss the research-based questions about their work. Over time they will internalize this type of dialog into self-talk as they think about their daily work. • If the group can’t answer a question, they should just say it is unclear and leave it at that. The teacher who brought the plan should not jump in and clarify this for them. Knowing that something is unclear to your peers can be good feedback for the teacher being reviewed. Often over time (esp. with assessment criteria), one will see more clarity in teacher directions.

__ PART III - Session Follow-up: __
 * Each group should hand in their packets of lesson plans and student samples before lunch.