Overview. The purpose of this assignment is to become comfortable with designing a lesson plan for a single session. Special attention will be placed on audience analysis, the use of a variety of activities or ways of presenting the material, and following the instructional development steps. The assignment is due February 15 in written form and also as a presentation to the class.

Selecting Topic and Audience. Find a lesson plan on a topic of interest to you for an audience that you might like or expect to work with in the future.

Audience Analysis. Describe the audience. From the literature and your own experience, write a paragraph or two describing the context and the relevant characteristics of the audience.

Critique Lesson Plan. Evaluate the lesson plan by comparing it to some of the things we've read and talk about in the workshop class and your subseuent readings. For example,

• How does the lesson accommodate to different learning styles?
• What elements of behavioral, information process and constructionist learning approaches do you discern in the plan?
• Are most or all of the instructional design steps explicitly and clearly addressed?

These question are examples only. Consider whether you think the plan will work well or have problems.

Revise Lesson Plan. Redesign the lesson plan in a way that you think would be an improvement and in a way that you would be comfortable teaching.

Write-Up. write up the lesson plan in outline forms. Attach your audience analysis and the original lesson plan and turn it in on Feb. 15..

Presentation. For the class, prepare to describe your selection criteria, the audience, your critiques and your revised (and improved) lesson plan. Tell about what you saw as the biggest challenge and how you made your decisions. Your presentation for Feb. 15th will be about the lesson plan rather than teaching it as an example (that will be the next assignment)

Revised Jan. 11, 2002.