Lesson Plan August 3, 2016

Presentation for World Affairs Council

Grades:

All grades

Author:

Pulitzer Center Education
Lesson Builder User

Teachers will... 1) Learn about the Pulitzer Center and its education resources 2) Meet with a professional journalist and engage in her reporting through discussion and a Q&A 3) Reflect on how they can global their own curriculums using Pulitzer Center resources 4) Explore the Lesson Builder and start a lesson plan that uses Pulitzer Center journalism

Pre-workshop Check In:

Number your post it from 1 to 5. Write your responses to the following questions:

1) Have you had a journalist in your classroom before? (yes/no)

2) On a scale of 1 to 4, how often do you discuss global issues in your class? (1- not at all, 4-very often)

3) On a scale of 1 to 4, how often do you use reporting in your class? (1- not at all, 4-very often)

4) What are barriers that make it hard to use global issues in your classroom?

5) What are you hoping to get out of this session?

Warm up:

1) Turn and talk: What global issues do you hope to explore with your students this year?

Introducing the Pulitzer Center: Our Mission and What We Do

1) http://pulitzercenter.org/about-us

2) http://pulitzercenter.org/gateways

3) http://pulitzercenter.org/education

Our goals for today:

Teachers will...

1) Learn about the Pulitzer Center and its education resources
2) Meet with a professional journalist and engage in her reporting through discussion and a Q&A
3) Reflect on how they can globalize their own curriculums using Pulitzer Center resources
4) Explore the Lesson Builder and start a lesson plan that uses Pulitzer Center journalism

Introducing Kara Andrade and her project "Mexico: Technology, Civic Participation and Accountability"

1) Engaging with the themes

- http://pulitzercenter.org/builder/lesson/18968

2) Skype with Kara

- What did you report?

- How did you report it?

Introducing Pulitzer Center education programs:

1) Programming

2) Questions

Steps for Exploring the Lesson Builder:

1) Go to www.pulitzercenter.org/builder

2) Create an account

3) Browse a model lesson and select one to adapt by clicking "Use this lesson" and then "modify this lesson"

4) Create your own short lesson plan idea by doing the following:

Click "Create Lesson"
Create a working title for your lesson
Search for Resources
Write in student instructions

Closing

On a separate sheet of paper, write your responses to the following questions:

1) On a scale of 1 to 4, how easy was it to use the Pulitzer Center Lesson Builder? (1-very difficult to 4-very easy)

2) What elements of the Lesson Builder did you find the most useful?

3) What was challenging/frustrating about using the Lesson Builder?

4) On a scale of 1 to 4, how likely are you to use the Lesson Builder to write lessons and units for your classes next year (1-not likely to 4-very likely)

5) On a scale of 1 to 4, how likely are you to use the Lesson Builder to look for completed lesson plans that you can use or adapt? (0-not likely to 4-very likely)

6) What did you enjoy and learn from today's workshop?

7) What would you change about today's workshop?

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