WIT 2003
Teaching Guide

Teaching Guide for Teaching Guide Module

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Introduction

A Teaching Guide is a requirement for all instructional projects produced in WIT, including both WebQuests and curriculum webs. The guide has a dual purpose: it serves as a "blueprint" for developing the module and also helps teachers to plan implementation of a completed module. See Curriculum Webs for more (http://curriculumwebs.com).

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.

Aim 

To help WIT participants create effective and comprehensive Teaching Guides for their WebQuests and Curriculum Webs.


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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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Audience

Teachers who both are interested in learning how to write effective web-based lessons and curriculum, and have the computer skills to create a draft teaching guide by the end of this module.
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Prerequisites
Interest in participating in the process of curriculum development on the web with their colleagues. Completion of the Curriculum Terms and Concepts module. Ultimately, completion of Dreamweaver or Composer modules, but initially just the ability to upload.
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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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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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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 with Internet access for each participant.
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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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Developed by Janet Gray-McKennis based on previous versions created by Craig Cunningham, Mecca Murphy, Nenette Luarca, Nicole Zumpano, and Linda Dernbach.
Last updated on May 10, 2003.
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