Discussion Assignment
In this exercise you share your revised lesson plan using the “Project Y: Exercise for Reorienting Curriculum” activity, and shallreview and comment on at least three of your classmates plans. In your posting be sure include the following at a minimum:
The title, goal and student learning outcomes of the lesson.
For each element, i.e. Society, Economy, and Environment, describe one of more of the modifications you implemented.
To add flavor and interest to the discussion, tap into the local issue(s) that you used to revise the lesson plan.
If you are not teaching then you’ll need to envision a class for which to develop the plan.
Discussion Requirements
Your Discussion should be at least 300 words in length. Use APA citations and references for the textbook and any other sourcesused; you should use at least 1 APA citation and reference, but you can use more if needed. Refer to the
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Discussion Responses
It is your responsibility to respond to three classmates by providing comments, asking questions, or having a conversation abouttheir main post. Feedback should be appropriate, meaningful, and helpful. For instance refer to how your own experiencesupports/contradicts the opinions developed by your peers. If you think they are too general or not rooted enough in personalexperience, you may also ask for more detailed examples supporting these opinions. In particular make sure that the examplesprovided are properly referenced and that you are able to access them. Overall, your comments should contribute positively to theconversation by broadening or clarifying it. Feedback should be at least 3-4 complete sentences.
Discussion Rating
After posting an appropriate, meaningful, and helpful response to your three classmates, you must rate their posts on a scale of 0(unsatisfactory) to 10 (Excellent). The rating scores are anonymous; therefore, do NOT mention in your remarks the separate ratingscore you will give the peer. The instructor is the only person who knows which score matches the comment given to a peer. Someclassmates may worry that some peers will not provide a fair rating, or be unable to provide accurate corrections for grammar orother errors. It is the instructor’s responsibility to ensure fairness and accuracy.
Please review and follow the guidelines on the discussion forum rubric
for assessing your peer's responses to the DiscussionAssignment.
Here are some questions to consider as we think about the feedback and rating to give our classmates:
1. Did the peer respond to everything asked by the assignment prompt?
2. Was the peer’s overall response organized and logical? Was it easy to follow and smooth?
3. Was it easy to understand the ideas the student was trying to communicate, or did you have to make assumptions to makesense out of what the peer wrote?
4. Did the peer use their own words, or if they borrowed from somewhere else, did they give credit to the source they used?
5. Were there consistent errors in grammar and punctuation that made it hard to understand or make sense out of the writing?
If at any time you suspect that a post in this Discussion Forum violates UoPeople's rules regarding plagiarism and/or any aspect ofUoPeople’s Academic Code of Conduct, please notify your instructor immediately.
Remember that your instructor will be reviewing responses, ratings, and comments. Your instructor will adjust ratings if he/shebelieves that they do not seem warranted or supportable.
Hello, Dr. Javier Lozano and Colleagues,
This week I took a group of students online to study Starlight 8 (Baranova et al., 2014). Next week we will have a lesson on thefirst module, Breaking News.In this module, students will explore the topics of world events, volcanoes, accidents and injuries,weird weather, and disasters. From my point of view, this topic is the most suitable for modification according to Project Y:Exercise for Reorienting Curriculum (UNESCO, 2012). Thus, the title is Breaking news, goal and student learning outcomes ofthe lesson are to listen and read for gist, to read for key information, to personalize a situation, to describe a national disaster,to compare and contrast disasters.
During the lesson, we will study the vocabulary of disasters (rail accident, landslide, flood, factory explosion, road accident,plane crash, severe or freak storm, environmental disaster, tsunami, earthquake, war, avalanche), the causes of theseaccidents, and ways to prevent them in the future. The homework objectives will be to analyze a model story, practice usingadjectives and adverbs, and write a story.
The final product will be a short essay on the topic of a disaster of the student's choice, in which the student will considerpossible causes related to the actions of people as well as possible ways to prevent the disaster, both big actions and smallones that can be done now. If the disaster is completely out of their control, what steps can be taken to prepare people tobehave in an organized manner during the incident and then help to repair the aftermath?
I think this work will scare my group a bit at first, but then they will want to make it better and more interesting.
References
Baranova K.M., Dooley D. et al., 2014, Starlight 8. Teacher's Book. English language. Grade 8. Teacher's Book. Manual forgeneral educational organizations and schools with advanced study of English. 3rd edition
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. (2012). Education for sustainable development: Sourcebook.
https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/index.php?page=view&type=400&nr=926&menu=1515
