Aim
This module introduces WIT participants to the elements
of the WIT Teaching Guide, how to incorporate the CPS standards
into curriculum webs, and supports them as they develop an initial
draft of the teaching guide for their web-based curriculum.
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Rationale
Planning is facilitated by a structure in which important issues
are dealt with as a plan is developed. WIT provides this structure,
through the elements of the teaching guide to the lesson or curriculum
web.
It is possible to treat the elements of the teaching guide as
just a worksheet to be "filled in" so the instructor is happy.
But we hope WIT participants will take the planning process seriously,
treating it as a professional, rather than perfunctory, task.
We hope that participants will be interested in why the elements
are helpful, and that they will explore the optional resources
provided, but we're "okay with it" if participants just follow
the steps.
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Goals and Objectives
This module teaches teachers how to write teaching guides
for their web-based lessons and curriculums.
At the conclusion of this module, participants will:
- identify the elements and use of a teaching guide
- know how to use the template to create a draft teaching guide
- be ready to use their teaching guide to help them refine their
web-based lesson or curriculum
- evaluate an existing web-based unit in terms of the standards
that the module (and each activity within the module) will address
when used in the classroom.
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Audience
Teachers who are interested in learning how to write effective
web-based lessons and curriculum who have the computer skills
to create a draft teaching guide by the end of this module.
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Prerequisites
Completion of Dreamweaver or
Composer modules.
Completion of the Curriculum Terms and Concepts module.
Interested in participating in the process of curriculum development
on the web with their colleagues.
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Subject-Matter
- The teaching guide as plan for the curriculum development and
manual for using the design
- Using a template to create one's own teaching guide
- Using existing web resources and activities to fulfill the standards
- Addressing the standards when creating your own web-based curriculum
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Instructional Plan
This module is designed to be self-paced, but mentors may want
to have discussions of the contents (and further examples and
elaborations) after participants have had a chance to read through
the initial pages.
Participants look at the assessment rubric for a curriculum web
and learn about how it will be used in the classroom (good time
for mentor-led discussion).
Participants identify the elements of the teaching guide and
examine this teaching guide as an example. (Mentors can show how
to switch back and forth between windows.)
Participants will address standards with existing web resources
by going to selected web sites and looking for some explicit mentioning
or targeting of the standards.
Participants use a template to create a draft teaching guide.
They save their work by uploading it to the CUIP server using
Dreamweaver. (Mentors may want to demonstrate this process again.)
This draft becomes the initial starting point in planning their
web during the first few days or weeks.
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Materials
Computer for each participant.
Internet access
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Assessment and Evaluation
Participants produce a complete draft of their teaching guide,
considering the definitions and expectations offered in the introduction
and elements lessons of this module, and utilizing the teaching
guide template (or creating their own).
Participants can evaluate this module by emailing feedback to
its developers.
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