Friday night closed with review of the five major areas of external influence on Lesson Design and the three internal influences of Lesson Design:

External Influences of Lesson Design:

I. The Subjects/Standards Taught in School

Habits of Mind/Self Management

Disciplinary Knowledge

II. Public Policy

Testing, Class Size, Certification, Adopted/Allowed Texts

III. School Culture  

Bell Schedule, Administration
Visibility of Curriculum Work

IV. The Teacher’s Teacher-Culture

Community, Authority, Networks

V. The Student’s Local Community

The Three Internal Influences of Lesson Design:

I. The Subject Materials used in the Classroom

Texts

Tools

II. The Students in the Classroom

Developmental (age, prior knowledge)

Social relations in class

III. Teacher

Dispositions toward External Forces (see Helen Duffy below)

Subject Knowledge

Student Knowledge

Materials Knowledge

PLANNED LESSON

The Interactions of Subject Materials, Teacher, and Student produce the USED LESSON (which, on reflection, become the REVISED LESSON)

By focusing on Lesson Design (and Lesson Study), we are making the claim that Vickie Greenbaum made at the beginning of the Conference: Studying the teacher alone is not enough, studying the materials is not enough, and studying the student alone is not enough.  Teaching exists in the INTERACTION of teacher, student, and materials----in that space we are calling Lesson Design.

 

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