The last portion of the lesson planning is an exciting yet simple concept, the Student Monitoring Sheet. Asking students to become actively involved in monitoring concepts and skills motivates students to practice and solidify learning. It gives students a sense of ownership. It provides a natural review of materials. It also establishes documentation of the affective portion of teaching and learning.

This is just a brief example of one format for a student monitoring sheet. Students enjoy self monitoring and can keep these records in a sheet. Students enjoy self monitoring sheet to fit the weekly curriculum or their own personalized course of study. Another way of facilitating self monitoring is to have students or an aide record them on a computer spread sheet. The opportunity for computer assisted record keeping and data collection increases the potential for individualization and self monitoring.

The process-product lesson plan format facilitates provision of process education with very little change in the curriculum. It naturally involves the student as self-responsible partner in the educational arena. The monitoring segment of the lesson plan provides reporting of student progress, hard copy documentation which becomes available immediately, allows process to be included as part of the reporting system to students and parents and naturally involves students in taking personal responsibility for learning and evaluating personal progress.

Assignment: Make a brief process lesson plan, including the objective, materials needed, evaluation, and student monitoring sheet.

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