Lesson Guidelines: All lessons should have powerful uses of technology. The technology enhances students' ability to learn the content. Lessons have content and technology.

• All lessons are to be written in Taskstream using the TS Basic format (from the drop down menu)
• Lesson is written with enough detail that a substitute teacher could teach from the lesson
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  • Objectives and standards should be related to one another (both content and technology)
  • Students should be learning some new aspect of technology and the technology should allow greater access to the content for the learner.
    • Technology standards are under National---ISTE---Student literacy
    • Be sure to read the standards and use them partly as a guideline to incorporate key aspects into the lesson
  • Procedures (numbered) should match objectives and standards
    • If you write "discuss" include several higher order questions that will lead the discussion
    • If you specify handouts or materials, include the specific handout in the procedures or resources
    • It is helpful to know how many days the procedures cover
  • Each lesson should have specific criteria for evaluation, most likely a rubric (for the teacher and the students)
    • If using rubrics form the Rubric Wizard, try to modify the rubric to match your lesson (e.g. instead of "the task" put in the specific name of the task ----"the graphic organizer".
    • The evaluation/rubric should match both the objectives/standards and the lesson procedures.
• A draft of each lesson shared with a peer (share with reviewer button at the top of the lesson)
  • When reviewing a peer's work, look under "my programs" on the left index for their lesson plan
  • Make comments by clicking on comments in in sections
  • When viewing the comments made on your lesson by a peer, go into your lesson builder to the specific lesson.
• Comments from peers should be incorporated into a final draft.
• Final draft is then shared with me ("share reviewer" button at the top of the lesson)---points awarded
• Lessons can be revised one more time and submitted to me again if you would like more points that awarded

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