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LED 6555 Lesson Plan Peer Review Form

Title of Lesson Plan Reviewed:

Your Peer’s Name:

Your Name:

Directions: Students will be assigned into 10 groups (3students *10) in the class. Each student has to read at least two of the other students’ lesson plan within the group. Your are highly encouraged to read more than two lesson plans depending on your reading progress. Upon completion of reading, do provide your feedback to your peers using the following directions:

A) Read quickly. Mark spelling and obvious grammatical errors.

B) Review your peer’s lesson plans, kindly add your reviewing feedback using “Review” button in Words document and provide with your peers’ feedback

C) Reread the lesson plan and give brief comments (if any) here.

Use the following guided questions as a checklist while reading your peers’ lesson, you can place Yes or No below as a checklist:

1. Does the author clearly include an explanation of the instructional program, grade level and content area for the SIOP lessons?

2. Does the author including the following aspects while describing his/her chosen language group?

a) brief history of language group within the community and/or state;

b) The language(s) and language varieties spoken by the language group. For example, if the group you have selected is Spanish- speakers, do students and community members speak Spanish in the same way? Newspapers, school history, personal communication from families or staff may all be used as sources;

c) Efforts to maintain heritage language and language programs through bilingual programs or community language programs;

d) Community resources such as English classes, spiritual and/or cultural centers, or others resources within community

3. Does the author concisely describe the following aspects in each lesson plan?

For each lesson indicate the following:

1)Lesson Preparation:

· content and language objectives

· content being addressed

· adaptation for different proficiency levels

· activities and supplementary resources

2) Building Background:

· past learning

· home language

· cultural background

· vocabulary

3) Interaction

· opportunities for interaction

· grouping

· wait time

· clarify

4) Practice & Application:

· hands-on materials

· opportunities to apply learning of content

· opportunities for learning language – domains of listening and reading

· opportunities for learning language – domains of speaking and writing

5) Lesson Delivery:

· content objectives

· language objectives

· student engagement

· pacing of lesson

4. Write your constructive feedback for the author to improve his/her lesson plan in the next stage (grammar, spelling, certain aspects of lesson plan intergrating with SIOP features, and other suggestions, etc..)