Example Class Post
Who: Professor Name and his/her class
Where: The classroom
When: Week #. Unfortunately, playing it out meeting by meeting is impractical, so if you intend to have your class played out, professors, please select only one lesson to go into in depth. You can do more, of course, but keeping up with it is on you.
What: Brief description of the day's lesson, if you want to give it.
Rating: Self-explanatory
Warnings: Self-explanatory. This covers both spoilers and potentially triggering/squicky content.
Here is where the professor would either leave some introductory notes for the lesson or outline each stage they intend their students to play out. Outlining the stages is preferable given the format for how the lesson will proceed, which can be found below. If, however, you would prefer to keep your students in the dark about what the lesson will contain (or are making it up as you go along), feel free to stick with just an introduction.
If you are outlining the lesson, please clearly number or label each step so that students can respond to them in the comments. It may seem like a lot of work, but you'll be saving yourself a lot of trouble!
If you only want to play out part of the lesson, list only the steps you want included. The rest can be handwaved.
Here is an example of a lesson outline using potions:
Step One: Snape briefly quizzes the students on potions ingredients or instructions for potion-making covered in the reading or a previous lesson.
Step Two: Snape writes the instructions for the potion the students are to make on the board. The students begin brewing.
Step Three: Snape grades the potions.
Obviously, there can be more steps (and more descriptive ones), but this at least provides a basic idea of what the class will contain and gives the students something tangible to respond to.
Where: The classroom
When: Week #. Unfortunately, playing it out meeting by meeting is impractical, so if you intend to have your class played out, professors, please select only one lesson to go into in depth. You can do more, of course, but keeping up with it is on you.
What: Brief description of the day's lesson, if you want to give it.
Rating: Self-explanatory
Warnings: Self-explanatory. This covers both spoilers and potentially triggering/squicky content.
Here is where the professor would either leave some introductory notes for the lesson or outline each stage they intend their students to play out. Outlining the stages is preferable given the format for how the lesson will proceed, which can be found below. If, however, you would prefer to keep your students in the dark about what the lesson will contain (or are making it up as you go along), feel free to stick with just an introduction.
If you are outlining the lesson, please clearly number or label each step so that students can respond to them in the comments. It may seem like a lot of work, but you'll be saving yourself a lot of trouble!
If you only want to play out part of the lesson, list only the steps you want included. The rest can be handwaved.
Here is an example of a lesson outline using potions:
Step One: Snape briefly quizzes the students on potions ingredients or instructions for potion-making covered in the reading or a previous lesson.
Step Two: Snape writes the instructions for the potion the students are to make on the board. The students begin brewing.
Step Three: Snape grades the potions.
Obviously, there can be more steps (and more descriptive ones), but this at least provides a basic idea of what the class will contain and gives the students something tangible to respond to.