TCHS: Teaching Plan for the Class of September, 2012

  • Author: Sister Huimin Fang, Brother Bob Chen, and Brother Jason Sheu

  • Date: July 2, 2012

  • Class Date: September 9, 2012

  • Subject: Compassion and Relief

  • Objectives and Goals

    • Encourage students to find what Tzu Chi is about
    • Understand how Tzu Chi is started
    • What world disasters Tzu Chi has been helping with
    • Tzu Chi Etiquette
    • Regulations of Tzu Chi High School Group

  • Master Teaching Video (12 minutes)

    • TBD

  • Anticipatory Set:

    • Students might have some basic understanding of Tzu Chi. For example,
      • Tzu Chi is founded in Taiwan.
      • Who is Dharma Master Cheng Yen and history of Tzu Chi
      • What are four missions and eight foot steps
      • Uniform of Tzu Chi
      • Tzu Chi music
    • Even some new students don't understand what Tzu Chi is about, they could learn from other students

  • Direct Instruction (60min - 80min)

    • Program flow
      • MC (Master of Ceremonies) announces the group partitions and game rules (5 minutes)
        • MC can pick up some questions (e.g. uniforms,...) if students haven't picked them
      • Responsibility of The other two MC (Erin and Victor)
        • stay in the central aisle to pass microphone
        • update the scores on two whiteboards
        • (answers will be sent to Erin and Victor from group representatives)
      • Game plays (75 minutes). Not all questions need to be answered if time is not allowed
      • Reward and "punishment" ceremony (10 minutes)
    • The class with be conducted with the form of "Are you smarter than a 5th grader?"
      • The class will be conducted with questions shown on stage and answers to be provided by students.
      • Students will choose the questions.
      • Questions can be shown on stage with the form of "Are you smarter than a 5th grader?"
        • Scores are associated with each question
        • It is not easy to display team scores on "Are you smarter than a 5th grader?". It is suggested to use two whiteboards to display and to update scores. 
      • Answers will be given by students by assembling Jigsaw Puzzle provided by Advisors
        • Jigsaw puzzles contain partial answers to questions. Students need to collect all correct puzzles in order to answer questions correctly
        • All Jigsaw puzzles (printouts or handwriting) will be passed to students in advance
      • Students are divided into 10 teams or more according to their seating. Team are named after 8 footprints.
      • Each team will take roll to pick up the question they preferred. One microphone will be passed among team leaders to pick up the question.
      • All teams will be given 2 minutes to answer the question. Answers will be chosen and ordered by students and are given to MC.
        • Four sections of 30-second Tzu Chi music will be played during the 2-minute time
      • Scores are given by the following criteria.
        • Full score: questions are answered correctly
        • Zero score: no answer
      • Reference materials need to be provided in some way
      • We'll spend more time on presenting answers in photos or videos once the questions are answered.
    • Categories of questions
      • Foundation of Tzu Chi: History of Tzu Chi
      • Tzu Chi Etiquette: Uniform
      • Education
      • Constructions: Tzu Chi's construction around the world
      • Indian Ocean: Tzu Chi's help and influence in India Ocean Tsunami
      • Taiwan: Tzu Chi's help and influence in Taiwan
      • Japan: Tzu Chi's help and influence in Japan earthquake
      • China: Tzu Chi's help and influence n China
      • South Africa: Tzu Chi's help and influence in South Africa
      • Music: Tzu Chi music
    • Simple forms of competition
      • We don't encourage tense competition. For all teams with the correct answers will get the points. For teams that have wrong answers will get points deducted. Teams can choose not to answer questions for which don't get points.
    • Team members:
      • One will be the lead to pick up questions and to present answers. Student can probably take turns to be the lead.
      • Other members need to pay attention to the videos or images in order to provide answers

  • Closure (10 min):

    • A short speech to conclude what students learn today
    • For the team with the best score, a simple present will be given to team members
    • For the team with the least score, there will be "punishment" which the team will go up to the stage to perform (dance, sing, ..)
    • Advisers need to reset/clear the setting of wireless network

  • Required Materials and Equipment:

  • Assessment and Follow-Up (optional)

    • Ask students to find unanswered questions from Tzu Chi web sites

  • Agenda for the follow-up meeting

    • How well students are participating in the game?
    • How new students are interacting with old students?

  • Program Flow

  •   Start time Host Action Duration Note
    1 9:30am Pohan Opening speech 5'  
    2 9:35am Pohan Master Teaching video, 環境艱難猶勤學 13'  
    3 9:50am Joanne Class announcement & game rules 10'  
    4 10:00am Joanne, Erin, Victor Game starts 75'  
    5 11:15am Joanne, Bob,  Game ends, award ceremony, punishment (sign language) 15'  
    6 11:30am Joanne Group time starts 30'  
    7 12:00pm Joanne Group time ends, "Caring and Love" 15'  
    8 12:15pm Joanne End of class    
  • Check list for the 9/11 class
      Item Owner Status Note
    1 Gifts for the top-score team Bob, Jason    
    2 Creation of the 2-minute music Jason    
    3 Master Teaching video Jason  

     
    4 Projector for students Limin, Jason   Check with Luo, get on car on 9/8
    5 Speaker for students Limin, Jason   Check with Luo, get on car on 9/8
    6 Microphone x 2 for students and MC Limin, Jason   Check with Luo, get on car on 9/8
    7 Projector for parents Bob, Jason   Check with Bob,
    8 Speaker for parents Bob, Jason   Check with Bob,
    9 Microphone x 2 for parents Bob, Jason   Check with Bob,
    10 Whiteboard 1 Joanne    
    11 Whiteboard stand 1 Jason    
    12 Whiteboard 2 Jason   Loan from room 208
    13 Whiteboard stand 2 Jason   Loan from room 208
    14 PPT file for "Are you smarter than a 5th grader" Game Mark, Bob, Jason  

     
    15 PPT (Rules of Game) for Joanne Joanne, Jason  

     
    16 Program flow (minute-precise) Jason    
             
    17 Need to decide how many students in a row   Closed 9/2/2011: 9 students, can changed later
    18 Need to decide how Andrew and Jessica on the aisle passing the index cards      
    19 Need to decide how Joanne returns and re-uses the index cards      
    20 Need to decide how to "take turns" for a team to choose questions      
    21 Need to decide how to cue the Jeopardy controller from Joanne      
    22 Need to deicde how to keep students in order when walking into Gratitude Hall    

     
    23 Three MCs (Joanne, Andrew, Jessica) will decide to how to conduct the flow      

  • How ten groups can be partitioned

  • Scheme of "Are you smarter than a fifth grader"
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