Project: NIO Microteaching Exemplar Session
We offer a new instructor orientation 3 times a year. The facilitators in my department are responsible for 5 sessions of the 3-day program. The learning outcome for the program is 'explain the components of a lesson plan'. The sessions that we cover include icebreakers, elements of a lesson plan & creating a learning outcome, microteaching exemplar, engaging learners and providing feedback. I have taught the orientation twice this past year, and felt that the exemplar session was not as successful as it could be.
The session that I have redesigned is an exemplar on microteaching. Microteaching is the main assignment for the orientation. Each participant is tasked with providing a 15-minute lesson using all components of a lesson plan, but in particular, an active learning technique. When we have offered this session before, participants were confused on what was our lesson, and what was an example of the microteaching session. Watching the learner's microteaching sessions in August, it occurred to me that it would be lovely to highlight a past learner's work in future iterations of NIO. The choice of program would also make it easier to distinguish the content from the example.
The redesign has a past student come into the classroom and deliver the 15-minute microteaching session, and then the class dissects the lesson. We tried it like this, just last week, and learner feedback was very positive. Learners identified the elements of the lesson plan, and were also less intimidated to create their own session.
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