IDE 650 Concept Attainment Model Presentation

Gagné's Nine Events of Instruction

Class: Career Explorations 9th gradeLesson: Start your own businessObjectives: Students will understand the steps of creating a successful business model. These steps include: 1. deciding what type of business, 2. location of business, 3. finding investors, 4. identifying suppliers, 5. developing a budget, 6. floor plan of business, 7. choosing a distributor, 8. deciding on vendors to sell product, 9. quality control, and 10. developing an advertising campaign.Duration: Monday through FridayGain AttentionTeacher will have various objects on a table at the front of the class. The objects will include a football jersey, a football helmet, a skateboard, a hacky sack, a deck of cards, and a harmonica. The teacher will ask students to list their hobbies on a sheet of paper.Inform Learner of ObjectivesTeacher will show a brief power point outlining the lesson objectives.Stimulate Recall of Prior LearningThe teacher will ask students to list any businesses that are associated with their hobby. The teacher will then ask the students to list what steps these businesses might have taken to get started. The teacher will then ask students the most important part of maintaining a successful business.Present Stimulus MaterialTeacher will place students into groups of four based on common interests. Teacher will present a power point presentation explaining the steps of creating a successful business model. Teacher will present two steps per day.Provide Learner GuidanceTeacher will move from group to group around the classroom providing suggestions and keeping students on task.Elicit PerformanceOnce each step is explained by the power point, each student group will be asked to create a plan addressing each step.Provide FeedbackStudent groups will be provided feedback from teacher daily. Feedback will be in the form of suggestions listed by teacher. Student groups will receive these suggestions at the beginning of each day along with their plan from the previous day.Assess PerformanceStudent groups will turn in a plan for each step explained daily. An overall project grade will be given at the end of the week. Performance will be graded based upon a rubric provided in the objectives.Enhance Retention and TransferInvite a local business owner to speak to the class.

Daniel Pink's Whole New Mind

Daniel Pink has offered some very interesting ideas about job creativity, the future job market and our educational system. My first impression of Daniel Pink's ideas are that they fall into the realm of self help, i.e. Tony Robbins. I basically agree with all of his ideas. He makes the statement that we should not be afraid to be creative in our job. He elaborates by using the quote, "It is better to ask forgiveness than permission." His point is that if we are unhappy at our jobs we should find a way to continue to do our job in a way that matches our personality. He is adamant that it is worth the risk of alienating yourself with your boss to find happiness in your job. After trying your job, "your way," if your personality prevents you from doing your job then find another one. The premise of this advice is that if you are unhappy you'll be doing a bad job anyway and will probably get fired or quit regardless so why not take a chance before arriving at the end of the road. Another statement he made discusses the future job market. He begs us to ask three questions. The first question is can someone else do it cheaper? The second question is can a computer do it faster? The last question asks does what you do satisfy the the demands of an abundant age? I believe these are questions that every high school guidance counselor should discuss with seniors before they leave for college. These young people are about to enter college and make decisions that they will have to live with for the rest of their life. Probably the biggest of these decisions is what will a student major in. I think too much is put into what do I find interesting. I think that it is also important for young people to think about what do I like that I can find a job in. In other words, what are the careers with the best job markets? I have known countless people who have gone to school gotten their bachelors then end up having to go back and pursue another degree. The last topic Mr. Pink discusses is the structure of our educational system. He says that our educational focus is slanted too much toward logic and not enough on creative type things. I don't necessarily agree with him on this. I teach at a school of about 1850 students. Our school offers a variety of extracurricular type electives such as guitar, chorus, a variety of band classes, horticulture, JROTC, Foreign Languages, and Creative Writing just to name a few. My school also offers various clubs from FFA, FBLA, FCA all the way to the Go Club. The Go Club is a club for board game enthusiasts. A full gamut of athletic opportunities also can be found at my school. I think all of these extracurricular and elective opportunities allow for those of us who are more right brain oriented to be successful. I am currently teaching math. Math is a very logical subject. You follow certain procedures and complete steps and you arrive at an answer. This is the nature of the subject. When I taught social sciences it lended itself more naturally to storytelling. I think Mr. Pink needs to investigate his views on our educational system more thoroughly and then present his opinion. I listened to Mr. Pink on You Tube and I also read the article discussing his thoughts.