Wiki 8 Week Lesson Plan
I do not currently teach adults so these lesson plans where created
based on my training as an Alphabetic Phonics Instructor. They are based on multisensory
teaching of the Orton-Gillingham Approach using a sequential and systematic approach
to teaching reading and spelling. The learning and training objectives of the lessons
are informative of children with dyslexia and how systematic and sequential teaching
approaches incorporated with multisensory techniques develop reading skills. This
class would target anyone working with children from the ages of six to twelve.
The rationale for the wiki within the curriculum is to use a process
map to visualize the process of phonological awareness, alphabet, reading
practice, handwriting practice, spelling practice, reading comprehension, listening
skills and quality lesson planning contribute to teaching the struggling
reader to read. I included video links to help in creating the wiki, suggested
weekly updates, zoom meetings, included a wiki collaboration process check week
four and final team and self-evaluations after completion of the wiki project. A rubric was included for clear grading expectations.
References
Birsh, J. R., &
Carreker, S. (2018). Multisensory
teaching of basic language skills (4th ed.). Baltimore, MD: Paulh Brookes.
Moats, L. C. (2010). Speech to print Language essentials for
teachers (2nd ed.). Baltimore, MD: Paulh Brookes.
West, J. A., & West,
M. L. (2009). Using Wikis for online
collaboration The power of the read-write web. San Francisco, CA:
Jossey-Bass.
I like how you embedded your lesson plan in your blog post with a brief introduction at the beginning. Very nice!
ReplyDeleteAs we now know, wiki has the potential to help with collaborative learning, knowledge construction, critical thinking, and contextual application. By examining the wiki activities included in your lesson plan, one would argue that knowledge construction is what your wiki learning activities would mainly help accomplish. For example, your wiki project starts by having students "MAKE" a process map and then "BRAINSTORM and RESEARCH... to FORM IDEAS..." What do you think?
Kang
Good question, I would say that I am giving guidelines in making the process map first gives direction. When working within a group you have many different project interpretations of what an assignment is asking. By creating the wiki map first, you are primarily making an outline for your research. I would also say it was a suggestion to the group and they are only graded on the final project not on how adequately they followed the steps within the weeks leading up to the final project. (This was my thinking while creating my lesson plans.)
DeleteThis eight-week lesson plan is based on creating a teacher’s daily lesson plan. Each week is learning the teaching style of a section of the plan. It might have been better to break up the eight sections and have each group pick four areas instead of all eight to research for the wiki. I need to reword week two lesson plan to say create a process map wiki page with less detail so they have more discovery. I could have reversed the process of the wiki’s accomplishment as I do this often a downside of my dyslexia until someone points it out to me. (This is my thinking after your question.)
LaDonna,
ReplyDeleteFirst of all, how did you figure out how to embed your lesson plan? If you don't mind sharing your secret, I would love to learn!
One of my favorite parts of your lesson plan is that you have a wiki group weekly assignment. In Week Three, you recommend that the group members assign roles for the wiki project. I really like that idea! It's good to establish roles as soon as possible so that all students feel they are contributing to the team. I can tell that throughout the course, you are focused on teamwork and collaboration, as well as ensuring it is a fair amount of work for each group member. The evaluation in the middle of the project is a great idea to hold students accountable for their work throughout the class.
I really enjoyed reading your lesson plan!
Anaka
https://youtu.be/Bhj-BtJMpyg
DeleteHere is the link that I used to learn how to embed into a blog. It’s rather easy once you realize how to size things and then how to manipulate google docs.
Thank you, Anaka most of my ideas came from (West & West, 2009) using different models putting together what worked best for my class. I am wanting to put in my lesson plans the model for middle project collaboration process check. (West & West, 2009, p. 40-41) That is the great thing about embedding and goggle docs all my updates will automatically update on my blog.
References
West, J. A., & West, M. L. (2009). Using Wikis for online collaboration The power of the read-write web. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
LaDonna,
DeleteThank you for sharing this! I didn't realize I had to use Google Docs to embed my document. I will try this next time I need to include a document on the blog.
Anaka
I definitely like how you embedded your plan into your blog as well - it's a great visual that you can scroll through separately. Thanks for sharing how you did that! I also like your integration of your wiki into your course as they build out a process map for your topics. This presents opportunities for collaboration on different ways to build this map and design the plan. The evaluations you have for this will also help them understand the expectations right from the start. Cool concept and plan - thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteLadonna, great on the detail and nice use of multimedia to explain your wiki.
ReplyDeleteYou did an exceptional job at explaining the rationale for the wiki... “to visualize the process of phonological awareness, alphabet, reading practice, handwriting practice…” Everyone has different methods of learning, and to visualize various processes of what is being taught is really phenomenal. I think it would be ideal to use the wiki in this fashion. I think how you designed your course is all about how Jim and Margaret West described how the internet should be, according to the developers of the web – “providing collaborative online spaces where ‘we can all meet and read and write’” (West & West, 2009).