Learning Object:Association of Teachers and Lecturers, Press Release
This press release from 2008 explains the results of a survey of teachers from the United Kingdom. The survey found that a high percentage of teachers believe that their students aspire to be celebrities and model their behavior on celebrities.
Keywords: celebrity, students, influence, aspire, behavior
- A rational for the instructional choices and format or any other considerations you made
- This learning object would be successful in a classroom because the survey focuses on students and their behavior. Students would most likely have an opinion on the matter at hand, as they are the ones being discussed in the survey.
- The manner in which you will assess your students’ understanding related to your object
- Students should recognize that teachers believe that students are being influenced by celebrities based on the learning object. Students do not have to agree with the findings of the survey presented in the learning object, but they should be able to fortify their own believes on the matter with personal experience, facts, and research.
- Explain how the learning object will be used, reused, repurposed, easily “discoverable,” accessible and durable
- The teacher could assign this learning object for homework, along with a short set of questions, as preparation for a seminar discussion the next class period.
- The teacher may also want students to utilize the charts presented in the text. The statistics provided in the chart could serve as a springboard for a class discussion or writing prompt.
- The teacher could choose to hone the class’ attention on certain statistics presented in the learning object depending on where the teacher wishes to guide the lesson.
- This learning object could be tagged with the appropriate key words so that it could easily be accessed by other teachers.
- Although the findings of this learning object were created in 2008, the text is able to illustrate a common theme within society which still exists today. The statistics may not be the most recent, but they still have value in our world today.
- How you plan to connect your learning objects to students, other ideas, or complementary learning objects
- Teachers could connect students to the learning object by asking them to comment on the statistics presented in the text.
- Teachers could relate the statistics presented in the learning object to several concepts in the book Starstruck: The Business of Celebrity, or ask students to further research particular points brought up by the finding and book.