On sticky-notes write a one word or a one phrase description of what you, your TAFE members and/or your administrators like to see in lessons.

Use as many sticky-notes as you like!

AUTHENTIC LEARNING......................................Veramendi B Help your TAFE members learn why relevant, hands-on, authentic lessons are the most effective. In this session, you will experience a creative way to emphasize the limitations of worksheets while learning a playful way to introduce lesson planning. Ann Pogue, South Grand Prairie HS - ann.pogue@gpisd.org (T)

On sticky-notes write a one word or a one phrase description of what you, your TAFE members and/or your administrators like to see in lessons.

Use as many sticky-notes as you like!

Put your sticky notes on charts – while up form a circle.

Q: Where do these words/phases fit in the Hunter and/or 5E Lesson Model ? (No wrong answers)

Engage /Anticipatory Set

Explore/ Guided Practice

Explain/ Instructional Input - Modeling

Elaborate/ Objective/Purpose

Evaluate/ Independent Practice/ Close

While Up, Form A Circle

You may trade candy – but don’t eat it …. Yet!

Ms. Wright’s Class

Find participants with the same Flavor (COLOR) candy as yours…Those

are your group members.

Authentic, Hands-on, Real World, Relevant

Activities

Authentic Learning Activity

Student objectives for this activity: Student will explain the

significance of authentic learning experiences.

Student will describe a criterion for relevant lessons

Student will develop authentic activities in his/her own lesson plans.

Tell the students that they need to pretend that they know nothing about balloons. Tell them to list all the things that they can learn from this one card/paper and only this one card/paper with only the word Balloon written on it.

Discuss the responses and correct any responses that have to do with actual balloons … The learning from this one card will be very limited.

The Word Balloon Handout

List all the things you can learn from this one line drawing and only this one line drawing.

Line Drawing of A Balloon Handout

List all the things that you can learn from this one colored drawing and only this one colored drawing.

Colored Drawing of a Balloon

Handout

List all the things that you can learn from this one photograph and only this one photograph.

Photograph of a Balloon Handout

The Real Deal!

Actual, Real-to-life, Authentic Balloon List all the things that you can learn from an actual, real-to-life, authentic balloon.

The Real Deal!

Things that you can learn from an actual, real-to-life, authentic balloon

This should be a long list:• holds air• gets bigger when filled with air• smaller when the air is let out• flies around the room when it is let go• will pop• makes a loud noise if it gets too full of air• the material – from the popped balloon – is stretchy and

flexible• makes a wretched noise when rubbed while inflated• if you rub it fast on your hair you can make your hair stand up• if you hold the lips of the balloon tightly while letting out the

air it make a high pitched sound• It can be batted back and forth with uncertain accuracy• you can draw a face on them• they are three dimensional• they are fun

Actual, Real-to-life, Authentic Balloon

The Real Deal!

Strike all Things that you can learn from an actual, real-to-life, authentic balloon that you could NOT learn from the word, line drawing, colored drawing…etc.

• holds air• gets bigger when filled with air• smaller when the air is let out• flies around the room when it is let go• will pop• makes a loud noise if it gets too full of air• the material – from the popped balloon – is stretchy and

flexible• makes a wretched noise when rubbed while inflated• if you rub it fast on your hair you can make your hair stand up• if you hold the lips of the balloon tightly while letting out the

air it make a high pitched sound• It can be batted back and forth with uncertain accuracy• you can draw a face on them• they are three dimensional• they are fun

Actual, Real-to-life, Authentic Balloon

Authentic Learning ActivityShare: Spin-off Ideas, Brainstorming, Comments, Discussion, Q&A

Discussion:Ideas and Resources for Authentic Learning Activities

Ideas and Resources for Authentic Learning Activities

Field Site Experiences!!!! (as real as it gets)

Field Trips

Simulations

Role Play

Others?

Questions for your members: Q: What keeps us from using authentic lessons?

A: Lack of resources (time and money)

A: Lack of ideas … just can’t think of anything

A: Others?

Q: What are solutions?

A: You can have your members to problem solve

Marcia L. Tate: Worksheets Don’t Grow Dendrites

Q: Where did we put the words/phases

Hunter and/or 5E Lesson Model

Engage /Anticipatory Set

Explore/ Guided Practice

Explain/ Instructional Input - Modeling

Elaborate/ Objective/Purpose

Evaluate/ Independent Practice/ Close

I hope you got an idea to take back to

your campus.

Thank you!