What Elements Are Usually In an ‘Inviting’ Classroom Lesson?

Inviting Students to Realize Their Highest Potential

Richard BenjaminApril 2012

An ‘Inviting’ Lesson or Unit

• Engaging– Often uses the ‘engaging’

power of the arts

• Accelerates or Deepens Learning

• Insures Remembering

• Encourages Application

• Invites or Pulls students into the lesson

• Invites students to come to experience learning as a fun activity

• Invites students to realize their highest human potential– Academic, Social, Spiritual,

Psychological, & Physical

Guiding Concepts & Essential Questions

• Concepts:

• BALANCE

• PATTERNS– What do engaging,

effective lessons seem to have in common?

• Essential Question

• ‘How might we make our lessons more immediately ‘inviting’

• and also make them to more authentically invite students to realize their highest human potential?

Considerations for Invitational Lesson / Unit Planning

Respect / Trust:Background KnowledgeStudent InterestsStudent Learning Modes

Respect / :Real Life ApplicationsNext Learning ObjectivesStudent Goals / Interests

Guiding Concept & Significant QuestionExperience / Engagement / StrategyCooperative Learning InquiryRubric for Performance Assessment (Product / Mastery Learning)Reflection / Self-Assessment (Plan to teach others)

Considerations for Invitational Lesson / Unit Planning

Background KnowledgeStudent InterestsStudent Learning Modes

Real Life ApplicationsNext Learning ObjectivesStudent Goals / Interests

Guiding Concept & Significant QuestionExperience / Engagement / StrategyCooperative Learning InquiryRubric for Performance Assessment (Product / Mastery Learning)Reflection / Self-Assessment (Plan to teach others)

Considerations for Invitational Lesson / Unit Planning

Background KnowledgeStudent InterestsStudent Learning Modes

Real Life Applications – WHY?Next Learning ObjectivesStudent Goals / Interests

Guiding Concept & Significant QuestionExperience / Engagement / StrategyCooperative Learning InquiryRubric for Performance Assessment (Product / Mastery Learning)Reflection / Self-Assessment (Plan to teach others)

Considerations for Invitational Lesson / Unit Planning

Background KnowledgeStudent InterestsStudent Learning Modes

Real Life ApplicationsNext Learning ObjectivesStudent Goals / Interests

Guiding Concept & Significant QuestionExperience / Engagement / StrategyCooperative Learning InquiryRubric for Performance Assessment (Product / Mastery Learning)Reflection / Self-Assessment (Plan to teach others)

Considerations for Invitational Lesson / Unit Planning

Background KnowledgeStudent InterestsStudent Learning Modes

Real Life ApplicationsNext Learning ObjectivesStudent Goals / Interests

Guiding Concept & Significant QuestionExperience / Engagement / StrategyCooperative Learning InquiryRubric for Performance Assessment (Product / Mastery Learning)Reflection / Self-Assessment (Plan to teach others)

Considerations for Invitational Lesson / Unit Planning

Background KnowledgeStudent InterestsStudent Learning Modes

Real Life ApplicationsNext Learning ObjectivesStudent Goals / Interests

Guiding Concept & Significant QuestionExperience / Engagement / StrategyCooperative Learning InquiryRubric for Performance Assessment (Product / Mastery Learning)Reflection / Self-Assessment (Plan to teach others)

Considerations for Invitational Lesson / Unit Planning

Background KnowledgeStudent InterestsStudent Learning Modes

Real Life ApplicationsNext Learning ObjectivesStudent Goals / Interests

Guiding Concept & Significant QuestionExperience / Engagement / StrategyCooperative Learning InquiryRubric for Performance Assessment (Product / Mastery Learning)Reflection / Self-Assessment (Plan to teach others)

Considerations for Invitational Lesson / Unit Planning

Background KnowledgeStudent InterestsStudent Learning Modes

Real Life ApplicationsNext Learning ObjectivesStudent Goals / Interests

Guiding Concept & Significant QuestionExperience / Engagement / StrategyCooperative Learning InquiryRubric for Performance Assessment (Product / Mastery Learning)Reflection / Self-Assessment (Plan to teach others)

Considerations for Invitational Lesson / Unit Planning

Background KnowledgeStudent InterestsStudent Learning Modes

Real Life ApplicationsNext Learning ObjectivesStudent Goals / Interests

Guiding Concept & Significant QuestionExperience / Engagement / StrategyCooperative Learning InquiryRubric for Performance Assessment (Product / Mastery Learning)Reflection / Self-Assessment (Plan to teach others)

Considerations for Invitational Lesson / Unit Planning

Background KnowledgeStudent InterestsStudent Learning Modes

Real Life ApplicationsNext Learning ObjectivesStudent Goals / Interests

Guiding Concept & Significant QuestionExperience / Engagement / StrategyCooperative Learning InquiryRubric for Performance Assessment (Product / Mastery Learning)Reflection / Self-Assessment (Plan to teach others)

Considerations for Invitational Lesson / Unit Planning

Background KnowledgeStudent InterestsStudent Learning Modes

Real Life ApplicationsNext Learning ObjectivesStudent Goals / Interests

Guiding Concept & Significant QuestionExperience / Engagement / StrategyCooperative Learning InquiryRubric for Performance Assessment (Product / Mastery Learning)Reflection / Self-Assessment (Plan to teach others)

Considerations for Invitational Lesson / Unit Planning

Background KnowledgeStudent InterestsStudent Learning Modes

Real Life ApplicationsNext Learning ObjectivesStudent Goals / Interests

Guiding Concept & Significant QuestionExperience / Engagement / StrategyCooperative Learning InquiryRubric for Performance Assessment (Product / Mastery Learning)Reflection / Self-Assessment (Plan to teach others)

Which one or two are you already strong in?

Respond in Moodle if appropriate.

Considerations for Invitational Lesson / Unit Planning

Background KnowledgeStudent InterestsStudent Learning Modes

Real Life ApplicationsNext Learning ObjectivesStudent Goals / Interests

Guiding Concept & Significant QuestionExperience / Engagement / StrategyCooperative Learning InquiryRubric for Performance Assessment (Product / Mastery Learning)Reflection / Self-Assessment (Plan to teach others)

Which one or two would you like to strengthen?Why?

Respond in Moodle if appropriate.