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Speaker: OTAN Outreach and Technical Assistance Network.

Debra Jensen: Welcome. This is Triple E course Week 4-- Enhancement. The objectives. What we want you to learn includes a warm up where you'll review last week's module and the Padlet question, how do you enhance your lessons?

There will be an introduction with an overview and to-do list and a definition of enhancement. Then we will look at activities that promote enhancement in lessons and questions to ask yourself about your lesson.

Under practice, you will read three scenarios and evaluate them, followed by the practice where you select your own lesson from your program or whatever program you want to look into and see how enhancement activities can be added.

Finally, at six, application-- take your own lesson plan and add enhancement activities and submit your lesson, adding it to a Padlet. Your reflections include fun with failure, the summary, and the weekly evaluation.

For the last week, the warm-up includes, what insights did you gain about engagement? What activities build engagement in your lessons? How did you add engagement into your own lesson? The Padlet asks you to write how you add enhancement to your lessons. The overview goes over the various things that you will be going through. So you can find them listed there.

And then we begin with the introduction. Enhancement. Enhancement includes operational improvement-- providing greater flexibility for learners, making resources more accessible, quantitative change in learning, increasing time on task, or improved learner test scores, and a qualitative change in learning-- prompting reflection on learning and practice, or helping develop a richer understanding of content.

There are a variety of activities that can promote enhancement. We have several here. Choice boards do an excellent job, where the student can pick how they answer and show how they can be assessed in showing their learning.

There's also teaching with the writing process using authentic writing tools such as videos or blogs or websites. And learners can even develop learning portfolios to document their own learning.

Another way to promote enhancement is to use the guided practice in school. This is the I do teacher model. I do the teacher's modeling it. We do-- that's co-construction where you work with the students. You do, where there's facilitation while you watch it happening, and then you do the independent practice.

The questions for enhancement include, does the technology tool aid learners in developing more sophisticated understanding of the content? Deeper knowing. Does the technology tool create scaffolds to make it easier to understand concepts and gather information or generate ideas?

Does the technology create paths for learners to comprehend or demonstrate their learning and the learning goals in a way that they could not do with traditional ideas? Under this practice, you will be looking at scenarios and evaluating those scenarios to see if they do in fact scaffold the information, offer more sophisticated understanding, or create paths to demonstrate their learning.

To complete the assignment, you will then talk about enhancement. Now that you've read the chapter explaining the concepts of enhancement, taking a look at the scenarios that you have looked at, which ones resonated most with your style of teaching? Any of them confuse you? Were there any scenarios that you think could be improved? And if so, how would you improve them?

You pick the lesson plan. More than likely, you'll choose to use the very same one that you started last week that you would pick the same lesson plan and watch how enhancement is added to it.

You'll be asked to critique it with a rubric, and they'll give you once again, the chance to take a look at the cheat sheet and see what things you could add to your lesson, which will be the next step, where you will then take a look and see if the engagement that was given does in fact answer the evaluation rubric for engagement.

Then pick your lesson. And when you do your lesson, be sure that it's in the WIPPEA format, that the tech is included, that enhancement is in brackets, links are active, and it has step-by-step instructions and then submit it in your Padlet.

Finally, under reflection, you have the three. You have the fun with failure, the summary for the week, and the evaluation for the week. This is one method of getting to it, so that you can get started on week 4.

And if there's anything that we can do to help, please contact us at support@otan.us. We are anxious to help, anxious to make this work for you. And share in the things you are learning about the Triple E framework. Thank you.