Lesson Design and Planning from scratch Practice Lab 9 What questions will I ask students to check for understanding? What ➟➟ will I have students do to demonstrate that they are following? ➟➟ Going back to my list of learning objectives, what activity can I have students do to check whether each of those has been accomplished? You just have to follow the 80/20 rule. The instructor s goal is to create an environment in every class where the students are ➛ communicating 80% of the time and the instructor is communicating 20% of the time. Now, all you beginner-level instructors out there are saying impossible! To clarify, this obviously does ➜ ➝ not mean from day one. This is a goal, and there are some simple changes to the way material is presented to help achieve that goal. 185