S2E4 - From Lesson to Session Plan
Overview
Teaching: 10 min
Exercises: 10 minQuestions
What are the steps to designing a session of a course?
Learning outcomes
Know all the steps to designing a session of a course
Tools for session, course, curriculum design
- FIVE STEPS for session, course, curriculum design
- Lesson/session plan
Instruction design in five steps
Nicholls G (2002). Developing teaching and learning in higher education. London, UK: Routledge. Pp 51-75
lesson/session plan
Example - Plan for a 1h15 session
| Time | Activity | Description | Goal/Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9.00-9.15 | Warm-up | Learners summarise the key points of each session from the previous day and answer questions from the audience. The instructor describes the plan of the day in detail. | Retrieval from memory, repetition, get prepared for new topics, expose learners. |
| 9.15-9.25 | Lecture | Pyhton functions. | Learning to write a function, about function input and output. |
| 9.20-10.00 | Practical activity | Two exercises to be solved in pairs on a single computer. After solving the first exercise, the "driver" and the "navigator" will swap. Two learners (one per exercise) will display their solutions to the audience. Questions and discussion. | Learners will be able to write and call a function calculating the distance between two points in the 3D space and a function taking the base and height of a triangle as input and returning its area. | 10.00-10.15 | Wrap-up | Group test on functions (match input and output with specific functions; fill gaps in pieces of code). Game: repetition using ball throwing | Assess learning. do we need to work more on functions? Repeat meaning and usage of all Pyhton objects introduced so far. |
Challenge: Create lesson plan
In your group…
- Take one session idea and expand to a “real” training session
- You will need to:
- Identify target audience
- Set learning objectives and outcomes
- Decide learning experiences
- Suggest how you will assess trainees progress
- Define training session structure/lesson plan (including indicative content, length, breakdown and timings)
Key Points
Instruction design.
Lesson/session plan.