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Using the Teaching Guide Template to Create Your Own Teaching Guide

(You should have successfully completed
"Introduction to Composer" module
before using this module.)

The WIT Teaching Guide Template will get you started with creating a teaching guide for your curriculum or lesson plan. This page will show you how.

You'll have two windows open during this lesson. Remember that you can easily shift between Windows by selecting from the "Communicator" menu in Netscape Navigator.

Tip: To switch Windows on a PC, hold down the ALT key and press and hold TAB. Press TAB until the window you want is selected. (Or, use the "Communicator" menu in Navigator to choose the appropriate window.)

Tip: To switch windows on the Mac, use the "Communicator" menu in Navigator. All open windows are listed at the bottom of the menu.

Okay, let's begin.

Open the WIT Teaching Guide Template in a new window.

Then return here.

Now load the template into Composer. (You can do it from the File|Edit Page... menu in the window with the template.)

Fill in the template. Refer to the "elements" description before you write each section. Open "elements" description into a new window

(That will make at least three open windows. It's fine to have that many or more windows if you need them.)
Every person should do write their own draft teaching guide, even if you are working in a team. At the initial stage of planning, it's good to have space to do some personal imagining about what the module will do. Later, after your team has finalized it's module plans, you can work together to merge your teaching guides into a "group" effort.

Don't worry too much about what it looks like at this stage, just brainstorm your thoughts, and then go back later and clean things up. Use the plan, not as a finished document, but a work-in-progress, not to be completed until the web pages are done and you can really tell how it might be used in the classroom.

Be sure to SAVE your teaching guide when you're done. We suggest saving it onto the desktop while you're working on it, and then upload it to the CUIP server when you're done with it for today.

After you've uploaded it to the server, show it to another participant in your homeroom. Talk about what excites you about the plan, and any uncertainties you have.

Talking with other teachers while developing your curriculum plan will help you consider new approaches and perspectivies, and will help your lesson or curriculum to be useful to other teachers.

  
 

 

 

 
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