EDEX 750

Lesson Plan #2 (Cooperative Group Lesson Plan)

Judy Lynn Handal & Elizabeth Neal

September 19, 1995


Lesson Themes:

Target Audience:

Learning Disabilities (12 students)

Student Objectives:


The students will define responsibility.
The students will list the steps of choice making.
The students will make choices in decision making scenarios.
The students will work cooperatively in a small group setting.
The students will create their own choice making scenarios.
The students will solve problems in a group setting.


Instructional Materials:

Web Sites:

Kid's Web
See Ebooks, See By Title, See Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

This site will be used for reading, illustrating, and discussing

Alice in Wonderland and her choice making.

Software:

Choices, Choices: Taking Responsibility

by Tom Snyder.

Hardware:

Three IBM Computers

Type of classroom activity:

Group of three students working cooperatively on the computer using Choices, Choices software. (Teacher assigns students to groups to prevent problem behavior grouping).

Pre-requisite skills:

Students will work in small groups

Students will be able to use keyboard.

Teacher will have printed Alice in Wonderland pages

Required Time:

One hour per day for one week.

Instructional Events:

1. Teacher informs students of lesson objectives by introducing lesson and by explaining the functions of Choices, Choices: Taking Responsibility

2.Teacher assigns students to three groups of four (Groups A, B, & C). Each student is given a role: recorder, keyboard operator, reader, or peace keeper.

3.Teacher explains student's roles.

4.Students work in groups of three to reach a cooperative goal on Choices, Choices: Taking Responsibility as teacher moves around the room. Teacher monitors students' work and classroom behavior to ensure student participation.

5.Students return to their tables to discuss group outcomes with the other groups as teacher writes the three scenarios on the board and reviews.

6.Teacher discusses Alice in Wonderland found from Web Site focusing on responsibility and the choices Alice made and the outcomes of those choices. (This is used to tie in Social skills lesson with Literature).
Time Considerations & Tips for classroom management

This social skills lesson on making choices and social responsibility will last one week. Discussions in class will focus on achieving individual goals, honesty, keeping your friends, etc. The teacher will monitor student behavior at all times during group activities. The teacher will use a group contingency model to reinforce appropriate behavior and to build group cohesiveness and interdependency.