Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Learning Cycles for Mini Lessons

For your mini lessons, you will need the following information:

We will do them in the form of learning cycles (the 5 E's). That means, you need to

1. ENGAGE: an attention catcher (to engage your audience)
2. EXPLORE: time for students to explore hands-on material (inquiry-based self-instruction)
3. EXPLAIN: let students explain in their own words (you can help with definitions/rules)
4. EXTEND: students get time to apply their learning to a new example by themselves
5. EVALUATE: tell students whether they were right or wrong; do online/paper quizzes, games, etc. (appraisal/feedback)

It does not only work in science, but also in English. Be creative!

2 comments:

anrome09 said...

Overall the the summary was written well. The author was able to mix AAE into the story to make Maggie more believable as a character. The only problems I had with the summary was that the intro was done my a narrator and was not clearly defined. The author should have used paragraphs to separate the thoughts. Also there were some mistakes in the transcription into AAE. The author neglected to change the word like into lak, added an and into a sentence where it was not needed, and used the past tense when in AAE one is suppose to use the present tense. So I believe this person should receive a B- for their efforts.

anrome09 said...

Neglect that.....