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What is a lesson plan?

Use of effective instructional design strategies that help teachers design comprehensive lesson plans. A well-developed lesson plan reflects the interests and needs of the students. The Lesson plan correlates with the teacher philosophy of education, with the prescribed curriculum.

What Lesson plan includes ?

1. Teaching Strategies2. Activities3. Multi-media4. Worksheets & Handouts5. Quizzes6. Plug-Points and Extensions.

Teaching Strategy:- Teaching strategy is totally based on multiple learning experiences model(M-LEx). The teaching strategy outlines how the flow of the concepts and teaching can be structured. The key points of the concepts are interwoven in the teaching strategy.

Activities:- Each teaching point has a minimum of two multisensory activities, each with a different strategy and learning outcome. Activities engage students into-

Higher order thinking skills Social Skills Research Orientation Inter-disciplinary Learning.

Multi-media : It includes visual learning(Animations, 3D demos, Interactive stories etc.)

Work-Sheets & Handouts:-

It signifies HOTS

H- High

O- Order

T- Thinking

S- Skills

Quizzes:- This includes MCQs for formative assessments.

Extensions:- For slow and gifted learners. Extensions are divided into two

a) Reinforcement- For slow learners

b) Challenge Series:- For gifted and intelligent learners.

How to create lesson plans

1. Click on lesson list

2. Select Class & Subject

3. Click on show lesson list

4. Select any Lesson

5. Click on any topic

6. Follow the instructions carefully given in teaching strategy and click on check boxes given with assets in the right side of the screen & then click create presentation

7. Once you clicked create presentation then click next step and give presentation name. Please select topic and save presentation

8. After save presentation, presentation will be added to your Assets list.

9. Then please click on the Star check box which will turn yellow after click. This shows that your presentation is added to your Library and will be saved as favourite.

How to add resources in Tata ClassEdge

This is very simple and step by step procedure.

1. Login into Tata ClassEdge 2. Click on Lesson List3. Select Class and Subject4. Click on show lesson list and select one lesson.5. On the right side of the screen you will see add resource option

6. Select add resource and then follow the procedure

a) Browse file- Select file from your desktop or pen drive Note:- You can only upload upto 10mb file

b) Give Title and Tag- Will make you easier to search for a file.

c) Give brief Description- Not mandatory

d) Select Asset type- eg If you are uploading a word file, then you need to select printable, for Microsoft PowerPoint presentation you need to select media etc.

e) After asset is selected please choose topic.

f) Declaration – Until n unless declaration check box is unticked your presentation will not be uploaded. So it is advised to double check whether declaration check box is ticked or not.

g) ) Last and final step in add resource is add option. Before you add resource kindly check whether you want to share resource with others or not. If you want to share your resource kindly click yes option otherwise if you don’t want to share click on no

An example of add resource

How & when to use search option

• Search option is placed on right upper side of the Tata ClassEdge home page

• Search option is generally used when user is not able to find the topics given in the lesson list. If user is not able to find more content for a particular topic then he/she can use search option.

How to add resource from other board

• It is quite easy to add resource from other board using search option.

Why there is need to add resource from other board????????????

Ans:- Suppose a teacher is making lesson plan for a particular topic but he/she wants to add more assets from other board, at that time he/she uses the search option where they can get list of available assets related to that particular topic.

Let’s see how to add resource from other boards.

1. Type any topic in search option and click enter button using your keyboard

Eg:- If we are searching for the assets related to human eye from other board. We need to type human eye in search box and click enter.

A list of available assets will come after search.

From the available assets we need to select only those assets which we need to add in our presentation.

A) Tick the check boxes and click on create presentation

After create presentation click on next step

• After next step give presentation name, select class, select subject, select chapter, and choose topic and then click on save presentation.

After Save presentation, the presentation will be added to your assets list

To make it ready to use you can also add your presentation in your library.

To add presentation to your library you need to follow the simple steps.

1. Click on lesson list2. Select class and subject 3. Select lesson 4. Select topic

5. Tick star check box of your presentation which you have created using search option

Assets

Learning is multidimensional process a kid will learn a concept through different things like media, printable, activity and Quiz. This helping aid is called Assets.

The assets are divided into four categories

1) Media : - This icon represents media of TCE. The visual medium has a great appeal for today's students. That said, research has proven that student's comprehension level reduces when the visual assets are of longer duration. Therefore, Tata ClassEdge makes use of short-duration multimedia assets to:

Briefly explain concepts that are difficult to visualize for studentsArouse curiosity about a topicGenerate discussions in classroomsProvide opportunities to interact with the medium and receive feedback

Tata ClassEdge also makes use of more immersive multimedia formats like Virtual Labs and Games. There are also several interactive tools (such as Geo Board, Number Line, Periodic Table, Maps, Timelines, etc.) available for teachers to illustrate important topics.

2) Printable

This icon represents printable of TCE. Printable is nothing but documents which can be printed by teachers. It is further divided in to 2 category i.e. i) Worksheet, ii) Handouts.

i) Worksheets: - The worksheet is only can be used by children. Teachers can give worksheet to students as assignments, home work and test. It’s depending on the teachers for what purpose they want to use it.

ii) Handouts: - The benefits of handout are it can be used by students as well as by teachers. The handout is a type of additional notes and it helps in performing different kind of activities like flash card and picture card games and teacher can use readymade picture of handout to explain the concept.

3) Activity

This icon represents the activity of TCE. Every activity is designed in TCE is based on the Multiple Learning Experiences (M-LEx) model and hence it is very important that teacher should go through the activity, the moment when teacher reads the activity he come to know how to perform the activity with the help of media and printable, Media and printable are the subset of activity. There are different kind of

activity i.e. Audio, Visual, Kinesthetic, Group discussion, Whole class discussion, Play, Outdoor, Media, Lab Experiment, etc.

4) QuizzesThere will be a quiz at the end of every lesson to help students recall the main points covered in the lesson. The quiz questions are framed to elicit students' comprehension, application and analytical skills.

5) Plug Points It is interdisciplinary learning which connects 1 topic of a subject to many other topics of same or different subjects. It can used in relating known concept to unknown concept, which helps in better understanding of concept. Teacher can assign plug points as a project activity to students which help in building research skills in students. The 3rd way of using plug point is group discussion in class, this group discussion act as reinforcement of concept and at the same time it helps the teacher to know how much student attain the information.

Lesson Plans

The Tata ClassEdge Lesson Plans have been carefully designed by instructional design experts with a wide exposure to Indian and international teaching methodologies.

The instructional framework that Tata ClassEdge uses is called the Multiple Learning Experiences Model—a model designed by Tata Interactive Systems.

The model is developed on the premise that when students use multiple senses (hearing, seeing, and doing) and are involved in a variety of activities, they will be better involved with learning and will have better retention of concepts. The model makes use of distinct types of activities that promote diverse skills in students, including critical thinking, creativity, teamwork, communication skills, presentation skills, etc. As a result, each lesson plan makes use of well thought out individual and group activities, field trips and projects. These plans also provide Extension Activities for both struggling and gifted learners as well as interesting interdisciplinary correlations, called Plug Points.

Extension:- Divided in to two categories

A) Reinforcement and

B) Challenge Series

Reinforcement: - Reinforcement series for slow bloomers / slow learners

Challenge series:- For smart and intelligent students. This series will make students to use their thinking skills and innovative minds.