Original Lesson Plan
Original Lesson Plan
Original Lesson Plan
Evaluate the lesson plan according to the following Australian Professional Standards for Teachers. Only
standards directly addressed in Designing Teaching & Learning that are relevant to this assignment have been
included. However, this does not mean the other standards are irrelevant to lesson planning and evaluation
more generally.
1.4 Strategies for teaching Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students
1–2–3–4– Comments: There are no explicit teaching strategies that are mentioned for these
5 students, however several strategies can be incorporated into the lesson for these
students.
1.5 Differentiate teaching to meet the specific learning needs of students across the full range of abilities
1–2–3–4– Comments: There is only one activity that slightly differentiates the learning needs for
5 students, by providing more than one option on how to answer the question required at
the end of the lesson.
Evaluate the lesson plan according to the following NSW Quality Teaching model elements.
Evaluation score – refer to NSW QTM Classroom Practice Guide for each element
Comments incl. evidence for evaluation score (2 sentences)
1 Intellectual quality
1.1 Deep knowledge
1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – Comments: Knowledge on the stolen generation is not sustained throughout the lesson.
5 The main focus is to empathise with the knowledge provided, although this is only
addressed in twenty minutes of the lesson.
3.4 Inclusivity
1–2–3–4– Comments: There are no explicit teaching strategies for including students from diverse
5 backgrounds. However, all student contributions are taken seriously.
3.5 Connectedness
1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – Comments: Students explore connections between the horrors of the stolen generation,
5 and how they would feel if they experienced the same trauma.
3.6 Narrative
1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – Comments: Some of the experiences in the Rabbit Proof Fence are connected to the main
5 activity in the lesson plan.
Identify the two APST standards and two NSW QT model elements you are targeting for improvement.
APST
1) 2.6 Information and Communication Technology 2) 3.2 Plan, structure and sequence learning
(ICT) programs
QT model
1) 2.6 Student direction 2) 1.2 Deep understanding
Modified Lesson Plan
ENA-24: P.34
(ICT)
Kahoot quiz
Glogster interactive
multimedia poster
Cross Curriculum themes & General Explicit subject specific concepts and skills
capabilities
Australia has two distinct Indigenous Students are learning about the stolen generation,
groups, Aboriginal Peoples and Torres with a specific focus on assimilation.
Strait Islander Peoples.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Students will develop skills in using (ICT), and
Peoples have lived in Australia for tens analysing texts through literary techniques.
of thousands of years and experiences
can be viewed through historical,
social and political lenses.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Peoples have sophisticated family and
kinship structures.
Explain what students will be learning about Student: Students listen to a 1 minute YouTube
mindfulness relaxation exercise with eyes closed,
while teacher puts up the Kahoot quiz.
Explain gifting process
Resources: Computer and projector to present the
As you start the lesson, tell the students that YouTube clip and Kahoot website to the
because you have been really pleased with classroom.
the work they have been doing etc . . . (talk it
up!) You have decided to get each of them a Mindfulness relaxation exercise:
present. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTJpYGllSD8
Uncover the ‘gifts’.
A few at a time, students can come out and
look/check to see if there is one there with
their name on it.
They can only look, they must not touch!
Tell them that in order to avoid distractions
throughout the lesson, they’ll be receiving
their ‘gifts’ at the end of the lesson.
Revise the novel, The Rabbit Proof Fence- Student: Takes out device to access Kahoot quiz
through Kahoot quiz.
Resources:
Questions include: https://play.kahoot.it/#/lobby?quizId=00fc16bf-
909d-4a6c-a7ff-69527c3eb988
Who is the author of The Rabbit Proof
Fence? Game pin: 1193080
What is the main plot in the novel?
What does the rabbit proof fence represent in
the text?
How is the novel a true story?
What language does the text use?
How does the text present the horrors of the
stolen generation?
15 Provide some short scenes from the film Teacher: Puts up the YouTube clips on a Teacher/
minutes Rabbit Proof Fence, for students to have a projector for students to watch. Teacher suggests and
deeper understanding. to students to make notes on any similar themes in Student
the film to the text. Teacher directs the students to
Direct students to discuss their own thoughts work in groups, in order to discuss their own
on similar themes, and experiences between thoughts.
the text and film.
Student: Students works in groups to discuss
Class discussion. connections between the film and text. Students
scaffold the class discussion with the teacher’s
assistance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPn3rn6iTnc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=XaZtOIsgBqQ
Now tell them (they may take some Teacher: Teacher explains to students that they Student
convincing) that you’ve decided not to give will not be getting their gifts. Teacher insists that
10 minutes them the gifts. Cover the gifts up. Ask the students decide on how they want to explain how
students to write down how they feel about they feel about this.
this decision!
Teacher encourages students to decide on Student: Students decide on how they want to
how they want to explain how they feel about complete this activity. For example, students can
this. express how they feel through role playing or a
poster.
Teacher
Explains to them: Resources: Wapping paper, scissors, glue,
These ‘gifts’ were never really theirs. name tags, pen/texta, table/
Before this lesson, they didn’t even know that desk, tablecloth, “gifts”
their ‘gift’ existed. .
They don’t even know what’s inside the Smart devices if students chose to complete their
package with their name on it. activity through (ICT).
Yet when they were told that they were not
going to receive it, they felt all of these
horrible feelings.
Get some students to share what
they wrote . . . angry, sad, betrayed,
furious etc.
Students can choose on how to present what
they felt to the class.
Direct students to answer one of the multiple Teacher: Tells students to choose one of the Student
20 minutes questions provided about the effects of questions provided on the board. Teacher
assimilation, and overall the Stolen encourages students to answer more than one
Generation. question if they are ahead of schedule.
Students can choose on how to answer the Student: Students have to answer one of the
questions. multiple questions provided.
Now think, reflect, make posters, write: Resources: White board and smart devices for
letters; poems; stories etc about this question: students who choose to answer questions through
(ICT).
“Can we ever possibly imagine or
understand the absolute despair that Mothers
must have felt when their children were taken
away?”
Class discussion about what the students have Student: Students lead the class discussion about
5 minutes learnt from this learning experience. what they have learnt in the lesson. Teacher helps
scaffold the discussion if needed.
If the lesson is ahead of schedule, teacher
directs the students to access Glogster to Resources: Smart devices to access Glogster
complete an online poster.
http://edu.glogster.com/
Reflection
What have I learned about the teaching and learning process when preparing this
lesson?
In modifying this lesson plan, I have learnt that there is a significant amount of
materials that needs to be prepared for the teaching and learning process. I found it a
lot easier to integrate (ICT) and deep understanding than student direction, and
planning, structuring and sequencing learning programs. This is because I had to
change the structure of the lesson plan and several activities, in order to enhance
student direction, and to engage and promote students’ learning.
Overall, preparing and modifying this lesson was a lot more challenging than I had
originally thought. However, this assignment has enabled me to have a deeper
understanding as to how to structure a valuable lesson; as well as to gain more of an
insight on the professional standards, and the NSW quality teaching model.
WHS
What are the key risk issues that may appear for and need to be reduced/eliminated in
this lesson? Using your syllabus and support documents as well as other WHS policy-
Outline the key WHS considerations that are to be applied in this lesson?
The potential key risk issues that may appear in this lesson are students using (ICT)
unethically and not with safety precaution. Another key risk issue that may appear
could be safety hazards, such as laptop chargers and students’ bags in the walkway
of the classroom. It is therefore essential to promote ethical use of ICT, and manage
a safe working environment.
Academic justification
The modifications that I significantly applied to this original lesson plan aimed
to improve the weak standards that I found, in relation to the Australian Professional
Standards for Teachers (AISTL, 2016), and the NSW quality teaching model (Ludwig
and Gore, 2003). This academic justification will first address the modifications that I
This includes the standard 3.2 Plan, structure and sequence learning programs.
This standard refers to planning well-structured lesson sequences that engage students
and promote learning (AISTL, 2014). In relation to this, I modified some of the
learning materials and activities in the original lesson plan in order to improve this
that the body of the lesson “should be in the same sequence as the learning objectives
for the lesson” (p. 16). I applied this by incorporating more time in the lesson plan on
the stolen generation, as the original lesson plan did not effectively follow all of the
objectives. I presented this by focusing more on the novel The Rabbit Proof Fence,
(ICT) was not utilised in the original lesson plan. I applied several modifications to
the lesson plan to improve this standard, so as to make the selected content relevant
and more meaningful for students. This includes a Kahoot quiz that students have to
provided with additional tools of ICT if they choose to complete other activities
online. Solosy (2003) emphasises the significance of ICT for students learning, as she
articulates that students “value and benefit from the use of ICT in the classroom” (p.
3). Current research has indicated that this is because ICT transforms a “teaching
environment into a learner-centred one”, where students are actively involved in the
lesson and can make their own decisions (Fu, 2013, p. 112).
In addition, using ICT is also beneficial for teaching and learning, as students
are able to access information efficiently while engaging with the creative application
of ICT, and developing higher order thinking skills (Fu, 2013). It is therefore evident,
that the modifications that I have applied achieves the improvement of utilising ICT
Furthermore, one of the standards that I selected from the NSW Quality
teaching model to modify in the original lesson plan includes 2.6 Student direction.
This is because the original lesson plan was primarily teacher-lead, and students did
not have a choice, or any direction in the lesson. I significantly improved this standard
in the lesson plan by providing students with choices on how to complete the
activities in the lesson, and by giving them an opportunity to direct the lesson through
class discussions. Patall, Cooper, and Wynn (2010) note that this is an effective
practise in the classroom, as “students spend more time and effort on the learning
tasks if they are offered choices” (p. 896). Teachers who encourage student direction
in the classroom also enhance students’ motivation and academic achievement (Patall,
preferences as to how they want to learn. In relation to this, research indicates that
this strategy is effective, because it promotes students to engage with the learning
materials and feel a sense of ownership over their learning (Tadich, Deed, Campbell,
improve the standard 1.2 Deep understanding. This standard refers to students being
ideas in complex ways (Ludwig and Gore, 2003). I applied this in the lesson plan, by
instructing students to lead class discussions on both the film and the novel which
that inquiry “is the most powerful model for promoting deep understanding” (p. 75).
Applebee, Langer, Nystrand, and Gamoran (2003) further support this, as they
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