A Meta Lesson Plan incorporates meta learning into each element of a lesson plan. It prepares students to enter into a learning partnership, where participants have complementary roles. Here is one example. It is synthesized from a number of lesson plan formats on the web. Of course, teachers can design their own planning format and emphasis meta learning in whichever elements are relevant to a particular lesson
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Teacher’s Role
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Student’s Role
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Goals & Objectives
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*Provides Big Picture
*Tentative Itinerary
*Rationale: Why these G & O
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*Responds to big pix, itinerary, and rationale.
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Knowledge of Students
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*Student input on strengths and challenges (S&C) for this plan
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*Student can articulate S & C
relative to plan.
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Content
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*Essential Content for this unit
^Concept Map of Topic Domain
^Assessment of Prior Knowledge
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*Retrieves and assesses Prior knowledge at concept & map level.
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Instructional Activities
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*Offers & tests variety and choices
*Multiple Representations and Media
*Flexible time/timing
*Explains/models “operations”
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*Understands, assesses and communicates preferences about Instructional Activities;
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Resources
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*Offers variety & choices that are
readily accessible
*Seeks suggestions from Learners
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*Makes and evaluates choices
*Suggests resources
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Assessment
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*Frequent and Predictable use of Formative Assessment with informative feedback and opportunity for “correction” or re-do
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*Seeks and uses feedback
*Is prepared to “correct”, “redo” or make different choices.
*Suggests, creates, uses own assessment
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Action (Outcomes)
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*Offers Choices for Demonstration and Dissemination
*Has catalogue for preview
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*Shares ideas for Demonstration and Dissemination.
*Makes choices
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Follow Through & Follow Up
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*Opportunities for follow through and follow up that will enhance/support generalization
^will offer opportunity for student to pursue topic/expand task
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*Anticipates and plans for generalization.
*Pursues topics and tasks of interest.
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Reflection
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*Reflection on student accomplishments and challenges; *Reflects on plan
*Updates knowledge of student(s)
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*Takes a meta stance relative to planning, monitoring, and evaluating learning; and makes appropriate changes in learning choices & strategies.
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