Although my school is face to face and has been since opening in September, we face the possibility of going hybrid or totally online at any time. In addition, I have students who are out on a regular basis due to having to go out of town for medical or someone in their family travelled so they end up on quarantine for one to two weeks.
The general lesson plan covers everything from start to finish. One should always open class with some sort of bell work such as a joke, a picture or, a cute meme. For online lessons, this is the section where students are logging on or getting set up in class.
Next it is important to go over rules and norms. This is where you'd include information on expectations for behavior or expected interactions. I'm taking two distance classes and both instructors include this information just after they welcome us to class and have given us something to work on to warm-up.
This is followed by sharing time or a chance to connect with everyone. This might be a time to share a birthday, recognize someone who might have done something cool, or answer questions about work. Then it is important to look at learning goals both as the learning goal and with the success criteria so students have a way to determine if they've learned what they need to learn. It is important to address the learning goals every single class. I take time to post the learning goals on google classroom and have my students comment on the goals either with a question, or how they feel they are doing on learning the material.
Once everyone is settled down, had time to connect, check to the learning goals, and looked at things students have done, it is time for a warm-up where you might have an open ended question, vocabulary, a previous problem, a problem that works on a skill, or even a three act task spread out over three days.
At this point, you get to the lesson and in math it is more important to let the students do the problem first so as to encourage productive struggle rather than demonstrating the problem first, having them do it with you and then letting them do it by themselves. It has been shown that by having students try the problem first before doing it with the teacher, they receive more benefit from the lesson, and the teacher part of the lesson should be last.
When letting students try a problem by themselves, it is good to encourage discussion either in small groups in class or via breakout rooms or via chat. For the we do, where the teacher works with the students, it can be done with the teacher having students suggest steps, or if online, let them share it via jam board, or in chat. The last step should be the teacher lecturing on the topic but it should include interactive elements otherwise students won't pay enough attention.
The final step should be some sort of exit ticket where teachers share a joke, ask students to complete something to show what they learned or include a question showing that students listened to the lesson if it is online or if they were absent.
The framework is here with all the information you need to create the lesson. I love it because I can use it to create a lesson for any circumstances without making a lot of changes. That is important for all of us, especially since the numbers of infections are increasing across the nation. I am happy to have the information because it is stressful to create lessons with an audience that can go from in person to distance at the drop of a hat. Let me know what you think, I'd love to hear. Have a great day.
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