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exercises: 10
keypoints:
- Instruction design.
- Lesson/session plan.
outcomes:
- Know all the steps to designing a session of a course
questions:
- What are the steps to designing a session of a course?
slides_url: https://hackmd.io/@nyTtT/r1tHvVR4w#/122
teaching: 10
title: S3E4 - From Lesson to Session Plan

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## Tools for session, course, curriculum design

1. FIVE STEPS for session, course, curriculum design
2. Lesson/session plan

## Instruction design in five steps


_Nicholls G (2002). Developing teaching and learning in higher education. London, UK: Routledge. Pp 51-75_

## lesson/session plan


## Example - Plan for a 1h15 session

<table style="width:100%">
<tr>
<th>Time</th>
<th>Activity</th>
<th>Description</th>
<th>Goal/Outcome</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>9.00-9.15</td>
<td>Warm-up</td>
<td>Learners summarise the key points of each session from the previous day and answer questions from the audience. The instructor describes the plan of the day in detail.</td>
<td>Retrieval from memory, repetition, get prepared for new topics, expose learners.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>9.15-9.25</td>
<td>Lecture</td>
<td>Pyhton functions.</td>
<td>Learning to write a function, about function input and output.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>9.20-10.00</td>
<td>Practical activity</td>
<td>Two exercises to be solved in pairs on a single computer. After solving the first exercise, the "driver" and the "navigator" will swap. Two learners (one per exercise) will display their solutions to the audience. Questions and discussion.</td>
<td>Learners will be able to write and call a function calculating the distance between two points in the 3D space and a function taking the base and height of a triangle as input and returning its area.</td>
</tr>
<td>10.00-10.15</td>
<td>Wrap-up</td>
<td>Group test on functions (match input and output with specific functions; fill gaps in pieces of code). Game: repetition using ball throwing</td>
<td>Assess learning. do we need to work more on functions? Repeat meaning and usage of all Pyhton objects introduced so far.</td>
</table>

>## Challenge: Create lesson plan
>
>In your group...
>- Take one session idea and expand to a “real” training session
>- You will need to:
> - Identify target audience
> - Set learning objectives and outcomes
> - Decide learning experiences
> - Suggest how you will assess trainees progress
>- Define training session structure/lesson plan (including indicative content, length, breakdown and timings)
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## Tools for session, course, curriculum design

1. FIVE STEPS for session, course, curriculum design
2. Lesson/session plan

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## Instruction design in five steps


_Nicholls G (2002). Developing teaching and learning in higher education. London, UK: Routledge. Pp 51-75_

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## lesson/session plan


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## Challenge: Create lesson plan

In your group...
- Take one session idea and expand to a “real” training session
- You will need to:
- Identify target audience
- Set learning objectives and outcomes
- Decide learning experiences
- Suggest how you will assess trainees progress
Define training session structure/lesson plan (including indicative content, length, breakdown and timings)

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