OER Professional Development Agenda
OER Lesson Plan
Overview
Proffessional Development lesson plan to present OER to teachers. includes slides and agenda handout
Professional Development to Introduce OER
OER Professional Development
Delta Charter School
Emily Dawkins and Cindy Peterman
Lesson Plan
Summary:
Explain OER and the benefits of using OER in our school as it relates to curriculum content, differentiation, engagement and professional development.
Objective: Teachers will be able to:
Define OER
List benefits of OER
Know how to use OER
Relate OER to planning, engagement, differentiation and professional development
Find OER for their content areas
Materials:
Resources sheet
Laptops
Slides presentation found in google drive
Tables for content teams - teachers will be directed to sit with content teams
Introduction:
Cindy: Good morning teachers, we have an exciting presentation for you today. Emily and I have spent most of the summer learning about OER and the benefits of OER for you in the classroom.
Lesson:
(5 min) Slide: Needs
Emily lead teachers in activity
Have teachers discuss with their content table about curriculum needs. (3 min)
Emily - Discuss the needs previously discussed from the curriculum team and how they align to the content team's needs.
(2 min) Slide: What is OER?
Cindy - explain OER from slide
(2 min) Slide: What are the benefits of OER?
Emily - explain benefits from slide
(2 min) Slide: How can you use OER? 5R’s.
Cindy - explain the 5R’s
(2 min) Slide: Creative Commons Licensing
Emily - overview of Creative Commons Licensing
(5 min) Slides: Planning, Engagement, Differentiation, Professional Development
Cindy - explain each from slides
(5 min) Slide: Where can you find OER
Emily - click on each of the OER to show what the sites look like and how to navigate
(15 min) Exploration time for Teachers: Cindy
Explore OER Commons, Merlot, OpenStax k12 using their content area. (10 min)
Teachers will share with their content table the OER resource they found and how will they use it in their lesson
(2 min) Conclusion
Emily - summarize OER and its benefits
Ask for any questions from the teachers