Each week focuses on a different skill or experience. Though these get “determined” at the beginning of the year, don’t be afraid to change as you learn more about the interests and abilties of your colleagues! While going through the process, we’d like to leave a few tips: 

  • “Double Instruct”: teach as though the participants are students and teach about why you are instructing the way you are 
  • Summarize key information 
  • In your lesson plan explain how you will do a “discussion”. Questions at the front of the room can be awkward and reinforce a front of class power dynamics. Try think-pair-share, concentric circles, mini-debates etc. 
  • Consider how someone who is absent can demonstrate they have explored the content