Lesson
Plans For High School
One of the obvious boons of the worldwide
web is the facility of accessing quality teacher resource materials and
tools. The supportive sources offer general guides,
interactive tasks, and lesson plans for all levels and numerous
disciplines. Specifically, some of the lesson plans for high
school are better online than they could be on paper, for obvious
reasons, again. These lesson plans for high school and
college-level courses, usually designed, written, and submitted by
fellow instructors, offer fresh approaches, lend themselves to
professional development, and (again, obviously) contribute to the
enhancement of classroom (or virtual classroom) learning of concepts,
strategies, methodologies, and skills.
As an instructor of English and as an online course developer creating
original lesson plans for high school AP English students, I have run
out of unique (to me and my style) ideas, so I have hit the waves of
the www, and have been thrilled to find many valuable lesson plans for
high school English and Literature--resources for linguistic, literary,
and rhetorical disciplines in particular and for education and teaching
in general. Some of these I would like to share with you, maybe saving
you the time I spent collecting lesson plans for high school
students. I teach English--composition, creative writing,
technical and nonfiction writing, and literature—but many of
the lesson plans for high school sites include materials and info for
other non-English disciplines. As well, the more
comprehensive sites offer the same for the lower and higher grades.
Online teacher communities offer lesson plans for high school in lesson
exchange databases that are rife with interactive, peer-driven, and
across-the-curriculum research and tools. At the general
sites such as Teachers.net, Tolerance.org, and TeachersFirst.com, for
instance, you will find databases packed with lesson plans for high
school-level courses, AP courses, and gifted and challenged students
courses. As well as an exchange network for lesson plans for
high school learners, these premier sites offer live chat, job and
classifieds boards, activities, kits, handbooks, handouts, syllabi, and
book lists.
Whether it is an interactive web adventure or a peer-driven creative
pre-unit activity or post-lesson exam, the material included in other
comprehensive sites lends itself to lesson plans for high
school…at, for example, Purdue University’s Online
Writing Lab; Dartmouth’s Online Writing Center; Dawn
Hogue’s Just for Teachers (Sheboygan Falls High School); the
Awesome Library, designed and maintained by Dr. Jerry Adams; and
Microsoft Education Lesson Plans (at the extended URL,
http://www.microsoft.com/education/LessonPlans.mspx).
Hopefully I have introduced you to resources and lesson plans for high
school students that you have not yet encountered in your online
searches. Maybe I gave you entrance to a site, a database, or
a teaching strategy or idea that you had yet to discover.
Hopefully, I have not repeated what you already visit and know
well. Here’s to novel approaches!
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