Lesson plans incorporating crtical thinking - sharing and discussion

[Daniel Pier]

Dear colleagues,

Thank you, Gale, for being the first to share a lesson plan. I apologize, but it occurs to me now that a Discussion is better for this string than a Comment, as the comments get mixed in with comments on all other subjects. Let's follow this string with comments on Gale's lesson plan and sharing lesson plans from others. Thank you for participating!

Here is Gale's message transferred from the comment wall: 

Hi Daniel,

I am placing one of my lesson plans in this forum to share with others. I will like them to comment on it please.

Gale

OASITEN%20Lesson%202.pdf

Warm regards,

Dan

[Daniel Pier]

Sorry, Gale's message did not transfer. Please see the comment wall for her message, with lesson plan attached, requesting comments from her colleagues.

Dan

[Michelet Guerrier]

Hi all!

Here is the link to my lesson plan and documentation. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B4zEtEobMvD4a3JiSm9IZ1lobU0...

Thanks,

Michelet

[Irvin Smith]

Good Day,

Interesting lesson and activities with detailed planning. You planned to engaged your students throughout and gave yourself the opportunity to facilitate learning and interact with them. Great approach. 

Curious about the age range - EFL Upper Intermediate?

I like the activities that you selected and I'm yet to try the Socratic seminar. Working on teaching the conversation skills to the little ones (5-12 yrs).  Your students seem to be older based on all what they were required to engage in during and after the lesson.

Question;

Were the students given the entire document entitled Pollution_Reading with the corresponding section for their group?

It appears to have all the information that one would expect them to arrive at through collaboration and and then compile.

Nice questions for the open discussion...

However, I would also tweak the question "How bad is pollution?" to read something like "What is your view or opinion on pollution?" - may choose to create a context by adding "in our country"

Thank you for sharing. You lit a fire under me to try the Socratic method :) .