WHAT MAKES A GOOD LESSON

What makes a good lesson?

NOTRE DAME TASK

Group work using jigsaw model

1. Form into 6 member groups
2. Allocate a common task
3. Each student in each group is given a topic
A) Gagne’s events of instruction
B) Merrill’s first principles of instruction
C) Specifying intentions for a lesson- Ausubel
D) Taxonomies- Bloom, SOLO
E) Objectives using Gronlund’s approach
F) Catering for diversity- Gardner

4.Gather information on one’s own for 20-30 minutes

5. Experts on each topic meet to discuss and study the topic further.

6. Experts now return to their original groups and teach the other members about the Topic they have studied.

It would be good to use technology so that all of the information can be captured for the group.

Each group sets up a new blog and puts all the information they have gathered onto it.