Post by Phil Grove on Jan 7, 2016 4:24:01 GMT
I am sitting here looking over a list of 46 topics related to parenting that my Cooperating Teacher in St. Paul ECFE uses to poll parents as to their interests. It looks like a pretty good list of topics that this teacher has found, over time, to interest parents. As a student teacher who might be developing and teaching lessons in some of these topics, I have been asking myself what resources I would like to have. Faced with developing a lesson plan on a particular topic, what would I like to be able to reach for to get me started? The answer, for me, would be this: I would like to look at some lesson plans that other teachers have already done.
Wouldn't it be great if there was some kind of an online "Lesson Plan Bank" out there for parent educators to use? Something arranged by topic or searchable by topic, so that if you searched on a certain topic that is sometimes taught in ECFE, you would find several lesson plans that other people have done to look over.
It seems like a Lesson Plan Bank would be pretty easy to develop if a bunch of parent educators were to collaborate on it. People could just send in lesson plans as they develop them in their work, and they could just be added to the database. A lesson plan could be nothing more than a very brief list of notes or ideas. People using the Lesson Plan Bank would just be looking for some ideas.
I notice that the Parenting Education Wiki has space for "Lesson Plans" heading under the "Instruction Tools" tab for each of the topics they list; maybe that could be developed into something. But right now, I don't see a lot on there. I haven't found any lesson plans there after looking under a number of topics. Maybe a more focused effort to collect lesson plans into a searchable database would work better.
Does anybody know of a resource that already exists that enables a parent educator to peruse a few lesson plans on a particular topic? If none exists, would it be worth it to try to initiate one? Maybe something a little different from this idea would be more useful?
Wouldn't it be great if there was some kind of an online "Lesson Plan Bank" out there for parent educators to use? Something arranged by topic or searchable by topic, so that if you searched on a certain topic that is sometimes taught in ECFE, you would find several lesson plans that other people have done to look over.
It seems like a Lesson Plan Bank would be pretty easy to develop if a bunch of parent educators were to collaborate on it. People could just send in lesson plans as they develop them in their work, and they could just be added to the database. A lesson plan could be nothing more than a very brief list of notes or ideas. People using the Lesson Plan Bank would just be looking for some ideas.
I notice that the Parenting Education Wiki has space for "Lesson Plans" heading under the "Instruction Tools" tab for each of the topics they list; maybe that could be developed into something. But right now, I don't see a lot on there. I haven't found any lesson plans there after looking under a number of topics. Maybe a more focused effort to collect lesson plans into a searchable database would work better.
Does anybody know of a resource that already exists that enables a parent educator to peruse a few lesson plans on a particular topic? If none exists, would it be worth it to try to initiate one? Maybe something a little different from this idea would be more useful?