3. General Recommendations for Lesson Building

One of BeED’s most powerful features is the Lesson Builder’s interactive maps. By creatively using maps, points and maplinks, you can create engaging lessons to suit any pedagogy. Click through the slides below for some ideas on using maps to organize different types of lessons. Start using interactive mapping to engage your students with these four tips below: Tip 1: Use pedagogical Map Templates from BeED For busy teachers, BeED has prepared several Map Templates based on several p...

Tip 1: Scaffold Blocks and Stages The Lesson Builder’s customizable blocking feature is well-suited for the scaffolding of content, enabling the Learner to progress through the lesson at a comfortable pace. For example, if your lesson is based on a Flipped Classroom approach, you can further break down the blocks and stages in the following manner*: - Point A: Before Class - Stage 1: Recap of previous lesson - Stage 2: Introduction of new topic - Stage 3: Pre-Reading Materials ...

Self-paced learning is a democratic learning method where learners are able to decide when and how fast they learn. Unlike traditional classrooms, the pace of a lesson is dictated by the learner’s schedule and ability. This offers several benefits such as: - Allowing struggling learners to spend more time on a topic until they master it. - Catering to learners with atypical schedules. - Training learners to be responsible and self-motivated. - Helping learners take ownership of their l...

Make your lessons more interactive and engaging by including images, videos, audios and even hyperlinks as added resources. These would be particularly useful for lessons with younger learners, or for subject-specific courses such as language, art or music where learners will find it easier to learn through other methods instead of just reading. If you are including rich media into your lessons, please make sure that they abide by copyright laws. BeED will not be held responsible for any copyr...