COLLABORATION: Steps in CPPT  - Preparing for Learning Case Study

Leadership by modeling best practise in instructional design and developing an effective plan for implementation is a key role for the teacher-librarian. Encouraging and supporting experimentation provides scaffolds for professional growth. Teacher-librarians can make a difference in the learning activities in three particular areas:

  • Develop a guiding question leading to relevent learning
  • Create authentic assessment activities
  • Design a culminating task that is open-ended, complex, authentic  
  Have you considered the following?
TASK
CASE STUDY
LINK  TO
Have you used a variety of  instructional  strategies?

Each teacher tried to use a different type of media, with an emphasis on different ELA strands.

The goal was to incorporate the objectives of media literacy, technology, information literacy, and ELA into each mini-unit.

Instructional Strategies

Designing A Unit in the Lite Environment
Ontario Curriculum Unit Planner

Have you considered improving your guiding question?

Each mini-unit focused on a different guiding question:
Radio Drama -
"Look Who's  Listening"
   How is radio drama a type of
   entertainment that can be an effective
   way of creating a drama?"

Have you added activities to meet your technology objectives?
Some of the mini-units were more easily adapted to using technology.

Radio Drama: audio recording
Advertising: create a poster on the computer
  and share them with the data projector
Have you designed an authentic, relevent culminating task?
Each strand had different culminating tasks:
Radio Drama: create a radiodrama
   broadcast
Advertising: use advertising principles to
   create a computer-generated poster
Point of View: create a drawing suggesting
   a point of view after listening to a variety
   of music
Fact or Opinion: write your own article
   stating an opinion
Last Update: 10-Aug-2005 3:36 PM