Kelly Dieckmann

Madeleine Gunther
Andrea Skarbecki

High Impact Practices

Lesson Plan
Learning Objectives:
We will focus on three objectives to help students understand the benefits of High Impact teaching:
1. To distinguish tips and strategies for promoting active learning
2. To recognize and identify the four principles of team based learning
3. To discuss and analyze the qualities of an outstanding teacher
Measurable Outcome:
I will know that students have mastered the learning objectives if they:
- are able to communicate an in-depth understanding of content covered during the learning
session
- see a shift in their perspective of what defines an outstanding teacher
- understand the learning objectives and demonstrate an intent to incorporate these practices in
future teaching environments
Supplies:
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Crayons
White Paper (8.5 x 11)
PowerPoint
Internet Access
Sparkling Personalities

Timeline:

Time

Activity

Description

6:00-6:20

Mini-Test

Ask if students have any questions about the reading.

Facilitate quiz.
Distribute appeal forms if needed.

6:20-6:30

Attention-Getting Activity

Crayon: Team-Building Activity (Maddee, Andi, & Kelly)

Relevant Learning Objectives: identify the benefits of team based learning

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Instructions for participants: (to be displayed via PowerPoint)
Your Objective:
Draw Andi a picture that she will like.
Directions:
1)
You will get one piece of white paper.
2)
You will have the opportunity to ask 1 (ONE) question, use it wisely.
3)
To ask your question, please raise you hand and Andi will come to your seat.
4)
You will pick out 2 crayon colors from the options provided.
5) You will have a specified amount of time to conduct your drawing and submit it to Andi
for review.

6:30- 6:35

Discussion on Crayon Activity

Debrief/discussion questions:
- How many of you thought to work in teams? Why/Why not?
- What benefit would teamwork have provided? Would it have affected the
outcome of your artwork?
- How can you apply this concept in the future?

6:35- 6:40

Welcome, Questions, &

Overview of Objectives
(Kelly)

We will focus on three objectives to help students understand the benefits of

High Impact teaching:
1. To distinguish tips and strategies for promoting active learning
2. To recognize and identify the four principles of team based learning
3. To discuss and analyze the qualities of an outstanding teacher

6:40 6:45

Learning Objective 1:
To distinguish tips and strategies
for promoting active learning

Maddee- Barkley, Student Engagement Techniques: A Handbook for College

Faculty, Chapter 8, Tips and Strategies for Promoting Active Learning
1.
2.

Learning is a dynamic process that consists of making sense and meaning out of new
information and connecting it to what is already know.
Now lets talk a little bit about the tips and strategies we learned for promoting active learning:
a.
Be clear on your learning objectives.
b.
Clarify your role.
c.
Orient students to their new roles.
d.
Teach in ways that promote effective transfer.
e.
Use reverse or inverted classroom organization.
f.
Provide opportunities for guided practice and rehearsal.
g.
Organize lectures in ways that promote active learning.
h.
Limit and chunk information.

3. I Especially found the following strategies to be interesting:

1.
Help students develop learning strategies.
a.
In the text, learning strategies are considered; devices or
behaviors that help us retrieve stored information as well as
acquire and integrate new information with existing knowledge.
b.
Some learning strategies to consider are previewing,
summarizing, paraphrasing, imaging, creating analogies, note
taking and outlining.
2.
Activate prior learning.
a.
Because active learning requires students to integrate new
information or ideas into what they already know, it is helpful to
have students participate in activities that activate prior
knowledge.
b.
Some ways to activate prior knowledge through activities are:
Writing brief essays to describe what they remember and
understand and Interviewing each other
3.
Teach for retention.
a.
The three components to help ensure that new learning is
moved from short-term memory to long-term memory are:
Emotional Connection, Sense, & Meaning.
b.
Research on retention shows that if a student can remember
the information for 24 hours, there is a higher likelihood that it

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is in long-term storage.
One way to help both yourself and your students assess for
long-term retention is through Pop Quizzes for which students
cannot prepare.
Use rubrics to give learners frequent and useful feedback.
a.
One of a teachers most important responsibilities is to give
feedback.
b.
Learners need to know what they are doing right and what they
are doing wrong to that they can adjust their efforts and
improve.
c.
Today, Rubrics are used to provide feedback and grade a wide
range of learning tasks.
d.
The four basic elements of a rubric are:
i. Task description
ii. Components of the task
iii. Description of the range of performance for each
component
iv. A scale (such as excellent/competent/needs work)
to rate how well or poorly any given task has been
performed.
c.

4.

6:45 6:50
Discussion of Objective 1

6:50- 6:55

Activity (5mins)

What are your opinions on rubrics?

Do you feel that pop quizzes ever helped you with retention?
Discussion of quote: If you dont know where youre going how will you know
when you get there?
Human Knot Activity
Relevant Learning Objectives: promoting active learning, working in a team,
effective communication
Instructions for participants: Divide yourselves into two groups and stand in a
circle shoulder to shoulder. Everyone will put their right hand in the air and reach
across the circle to grab a teammates hand. Everyone will then put their left
hand in the air and do the same. No one should be holding the hand of a person
immediately to his/her right or left. The group must then untangle themselves
without unlinking hands.

6:55 7:00

Discussion of Human Knot

Activity

Debrief/discussion questions:
- What strategies did your group incorporate to untangle yourselves?
- What skills were particularly useful for success in this activity?
- What did you learn about working in a group from this activity? How can we
tie this in to the learning objectives?

7:00 7:05

Learning Objective 2:
To recognize and identify the four
principles of team based learning

Andi Michaelson: Team-Based Learning

Pages 27-50

7:05 7:10

Discussion of Objective 2

Open class discussion on Objective 2 Topics.

Q & A Time
Summary of Objective 2
Pass off to Kelly

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7:10 7:15

Learning Objective 3:
To discuss and analyze the
qualities of an outstanding
teacher

Kelly D. Bain, What the Best College Teachers Know,

Chapter 6, How Do They Treat Their Students?
Opening question: Personality played little or no role in successful teaching
What do you think about that? Do you feel that personality was a factor in
teachers who you feel were influential to you?
According to the article, what did make an outstanding teacher?
- not being a control freak
- subservient
- displayed not power but an investment in the students
- rules can be changed to fit individual needs
- trust
- openness
- sense of awe and curiosity about life
- sense of humility about themselves and their own learning
- saw themselves as students of life, fellow travelers in search of some
small glimpse of the truth
- affinity with students
- exchange of ideas

7:15 7:20

Discussion of Objective 3

Self application Discussion of quotes:

Real science recognizes that you have an advantage over practically any
other human enterprise because what you are after call it truth or
understanding waits patiently for you while you screw up.
Its not because we are particularly smart but because we are stubborn.
Introduce Video

7:20- 7:23

Video (2mins 11 sec.)

Dead Poets Society (YouTube)

http://youtu.be/SnAyr0kWRGE

7:23 7:30

Wrap Up

Conclusion of Learning Session (All)

Recap and Final Questions