Learning Tasks for Monday, February 17 and Tuesday, February 18

Essential Question:  How do the educational structures at LEC help students succeed?

I can:
...analyze and discuss how autonomy, mastery, and purpose affect motivation.
...create a lesson based on Common Instructional Framework Strategies.

1.  Writing into the Day
What motivates you to succeed in life, school, work, etc.?

2.  Mini-Socratic Seminar
Think back to the motivation article that you read with Mrs. Wiggs.  Write at least three Higher Order Thinking questions that could lead to discussion about the video.  How does LEC create an environment that considers students' autonomy, mastery, and purpose?

Seminar Directions:

• Pair up with a buddy.  Determine who will enter the inner circle for Round One.
• Participants- bring your journal entry with you into the center.  Our Fearless Leader will begin and direct the conversation.
• Observers- keep a close eye on your buddy!  When time is called, you must tell him/her to either step up or step back.
• Switch!  Participants become observers, and observers become participants.  We will choose a new Fearless Leader, who will begin a new discussion.

3.  CIF Activity Creation

*Imaginary Scenario*:  Oh no!  All the LEC teachers bad doughnuts at a staff meeting and called in sick for the week.  Fortunately, Mr. Biehl heard that you all are now experts on Common Instructional Framework, so he's asked YOU GUYS to teach EACH OTHER while the teachers recover from the Great LEC Doughnut Tragedy!  No pressure.  You've got this.  Using what you've learned about CIF over the past two weeks, along with your handy dandy checklist, you and your group will design a lesson that you will be delivering to your peers on Thursday.  In addition to your 10-minute lesson plan, you will also provide the class with a 3-minute explanation of how you came up with your Essential Question and Objectives and why you chose the Common Instructional Framework strategy you chose.

Directions:

1. Move into your assigned group.  Ms. Jones will assign you a standard to address with your lesson plan.

2. Use the Standard to develop an Essential Question and three objectives ("I can...").

3. Create a 10-minute lesson plan to teach your objectives.  You must use at least one CIF strategy in your lesson plan.

4. Designate one group member to fill in and share the following document with Ms. Jones and the group.

5.  Make sure you abide by the checklist and template while designing your lesson!

Groups:

Group 1-  Austin,  Cynthia, Janelle

Group 2- Michael, Courtney, Jeremiah

Group 3- Westley, Ta'Liyah

Group 4- Amil, Jazzmon, Keyona

4. Homework

-Bring in pennies for Friday!  We will be making balancing birds and need two pennies for every student.

-Track CIF strategies and Essential Questions being used in your other classes.  Document those strategies in your Education Experiment lab packet.