LESSON PLAN 3/24/2010 – E-Commerce Practicum

HOOK: “If you listen to what I have to say the next 5 minutes, you will learn a

skill that you can use for the rest of your life to help you answer almost any

question. BUT you must listen to me carefully and do everything I tell you.”

[Necessary to get you “hook” onto the lesson – works with adults and children]

Objective: Students will be able to understand the concept of sample selection

bias, analyze the concept in context, and come up with an example by explaining

the bias away with a proxy variable.

[Must be centered on one concept, be action based, and be measurable]

EXPLAIN: Explain the concept.

I DO: Example, education (beyond high school) and income (of this class),

explain away with law student proxy.

WE DO: Class example.

YOU DO: YAM your own example.

[A pedagogy technique in order to immerse student in the concept. I can use for

law students, but for 13-year-olds, pictorial and games may be more useful during

the “EXPLAIN” portion]

INCENTIVE: COOKIES, YAM POINTS, and my SPELLCASTER VOITE!!!

[Adults, as children, work best on incentives, i.e., Professor Fairfield guilt us into

working into wee hours of the night with food and caffeine]