Closure and Anticipatory Set

What is the purpose of the Closure component in a lesson plan?

The closure component of a lesson plan can have several purposes. The closure piece wraps up any loose-ends of the lesson and reviews what the students have learned today. I think that the anticipatory set and the closure are a lot like the introduction and conclusion of a story. I remember my high school language arts teacher saying it like this: First, you tell them what you're going to tell them, then you tell them, then you tell them what you told them. We are doing much the same with this - we preface the lesson and give them a heads up for what is coming, then we wind-up the lesson, re-covering what we've told them, as well as gearing them up for the next day, all the while checking in and making sure students are relatively up to speed. This is also a time to clarify anything that might have been confusing to students.

While I was googling, I found this succinct "Purposes of Closure". They clarified that the closing piece of a lesson could cover a couple of these purposes, but not necessarily all of them.
• Reviewing the key points of the lesson.
• Giving students opportunities to draw conclusions from the lesson.
• Describing when the students can use this new information.
• Previewing future lessons.
• Demonstrating student’s problem-solving process.
• Exhibiting student learning.
• Creating a smooth transition from one lesson to the next lesson.

Strategies and Examples:
Journaling or quickwrites are one way to close up a lesson, which allows students to independently reflect on what they've covered that day. I've also seen a 3-2-1 prompt given, where the students write three things they've learned or discovered, two things they found interesting, and one question they may still have.
Another example is having students do the same thing on an index card to be turned in, or solve a few sample problems as their ticket out of class.
A pair and share time could be taken for students to discuss with each other what they have learned.

What is the purpose of an Anticipatory Set in a typical lesson plan?

The anticipatory set in a lesson plan pulls into play prior knowledge that the students hold about the relevant subject. This is a lead-in time to prepare students for what they are about to learn, and to hopefully grab their attention. This would also be a time to introduce the learning objectives written in kid-friendly language.

Examples of this might be journaling in their notebook what they remember about fractions/decimals/percents, or it may be a prompt asking where we see these symbols in our world. Many of the examples that I found through google were short one or two sentence phrases just reminding students what they talked about in a previous lesson or what will be coming up in the next lesson.



http://k6educators.about.com/od/lessonplanheadquarters/g/anticipatoryset.htm

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