Lesson+Planning+Resources

Strategic Teaching
While this is not the only way to thinking of teaching, there is much value in strategic teaching. Silver, Strong, and Perini have written a book called //Strategic Teacher,// much of which is available for you to view online. I strongly recommend that you rea d the Introduction before you read any of the chapters. After the intro, they describe 20 research-based strategies that you may or may not find applicable to teaching English and speech communication. I especially like the "Strategic Dashboard" in the intro (and throughout the chapters) as a way of organizing and understanding instructional plans. See what you think: []

Twenty-Minute Lesson Plans
Post here the lesson plans you wrote to teach irony from different "ways of knowing" (Smagorinsky, ch. 1). Make sure your file is a Word document or a PDF (or a file that can be read by everyone--RTF would be fine if you have no special formatting). From this page, click "edit this page," then "file," then follow the instructions to embed the file. Give your lesson a heading that shows what kind it is (paradigmatic, constructivist, etc.). For the heading, use the drop-down box above that says "Normal" and use Heading 4.