Lesson Critique Assignments

Part A. Please prepare a lesson critique of the activity that you taught in the first clinic. Work with your partner to prepare a joint response for this assignment. You will submit it to your instructor and to one other pair of teachers (your Critique Partners). Outline (one paragraph) what the lesson involved. Then briefly describe how each session went and how your second session changed relative to your first. The rest of your critique should explore one or two issues about your lesson related to inquiry. You may choose the focus from among the inquiry-related issues you've read about and/or we've explored in class. Please give examples to support your substantive claims.
The critique should be 1-3 pages in length. Please bring two printed copies of the packet to Tuesday's (March 21) class. Then package your critique of your lesson and your lesson plan (and any handouts that may be useful for the reader to understand what you did) into a single document, "Write4a Lastname1 Lastname2.doc" and place in the the ANGEL dropbox by March 23.

Part B. Your second critique will  be of another teacher pair's lesson. You need not have observed the lesson; your reflection can focus on your review of their lesson plan, their self-critiques, and the conversation you have with them in Tuesday's class about their Clinic experience. Your critique should have two parts: a brief description of what the lesson involved (one paragraph), and 3-4 paragraphs exploring some aspect of how the lesson related to inquiry. You may work with your Clinic 1 partner to prepare a single critique, or prepare two individual critiques.

In either event, please save your critique into a document, "Write 4b Lastname1 [Lastname2].doc" (where Lastname refers to the critique author's last name). Place a copy in the course Angel dropbox and send a copy via email to the members of the group you critiqued. Include the words "411 Write 4b" in the subject header of your email. Due March 23. The tone of this critique should be supportive but critical. "I like what you really did with X" is fine, but if you don't dig, challenge, or elaborate, it's not a critique; it's fan mail.