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Micro Lesson

A micro LESSON is defined as a student centered instructional unit that


focuses on a small section of a topic in the school curriculum.
It should not be ambitious but to fulfill one or two instructional objectives.
The activities should preferable be completed within one or two class. either
half an hour or an hour, the most
Micro Lesson should encourage students to explore in work together rather
than alone. So collaborative work is a feature of micro lesson.

Elements of a micro lesson:


1. Objectives
2. Content
3. Activities
4. Tools and templates

How do students learn from micro lesson?


Behaviorism
Have you been to the ZOO? Seaworld? Circus? how can animals perform such
tricks? What rewards were given to the animals when they have performed a trick?

This is the principle behind behaviorism.

Jump!
Stimulus

Animal Jumps

good boy
Response

Reinforcement

R
Reinforcement (rewards) encourage stimulus again

Cognitivism
This is the principle behind cognitivism or information processing model.

Constructivism
When learning is an active process of constructing rather than acquiring knowledge
then we would consider this as constructivism. In constructivism, students foms new
knowledge through various activities (such as reading, summarizing, experimenting)
rather than being thought or being told by the teacher.

Social Constuctivism
Learning is not done independently but with the help of other in a society or within a
group of learners. Other peoples points of views are also expressed and a learner
has to negotiate with others before coming to a consensus or a decisions.

Content for Planning micro lesson


1. Identify your learners .
2. Brainstorm: identify some problem areas in your curriculum subject.
3. State clearly the objectives that you hope to achieve.
4. Choose appropriate samples, scenarios, case studies, stories, questions or
problems that will help you to achieve the objective.
5. Design student activities that will promote thinking rather than just recall
of information.

Five instructional approaches how micro Lesson can be


used in school
1. Resourced-based
This approach, various links to the WWW can be established and students will
access the website to collect information, facts, opinions and then synthesize them
or compare to different view points.

2. Problem-based
Micro lesson can now be used maybe to present instructional problems
In a multimedia fashion through which activities can be formulated and where
students can be engaged in the process of investigation and problem solving.

3. Case-based
4. Collaborative-based
In this approach, students can be asked to work collaboratively or in pairs to
undergo and instructional activity presented intentionally the micro lessons to be
jointly work through.

5. Stimulation-based

Finally, micro lessons can also be used to create stimulation where students can
observe particular phenomena in learn from the processes and the variables that
will affect the stimulated action.

Objectives of the micro lesson research project:


1. To develop guidelines for micro lessons development.
2.

To conduct training sessions on micro lesson development.

3. To design and develop evaluative tools for selection.


4. To conduct evaluation and selection of micro lesson.
5. To produce prototype micro lesson.
6. To test prototypes for quality.
7. To evaluate the effectiveness of the micro lesson in school.

Our learning about micro lesson it focuses only a small section of a topic. It
fulfills one or two instructional objectives. It can be completed within one or two
class periods. It also encourages students to build their own learning or to learn on
their own, micro lesson is a student centered. There are elements, guidelines and
objective in micro lesson.
We decide our topic will be Higher Thinking Skills through IT-Based project.

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