I'm going to boldly share a lesson plan for what I believe embodies authentic pedagogy. It is from an online TESOL Course I completed through Arizona State University called Teach English Now! (Arizona State University, n.d.)

Lesson Plan Page 1 (Kaufmann, 2020)

Lesson Plan Page 2 (Kaufmann, 2020)

Above is a lesson plan for a class I made on a class I like to teach on resume writing. When thinking of authentic/progressive pedagogy nothing is more relevant, experiential, realistic, authentic, and task-based. This type of instruction is very relevant from the moment when students choose an authentic job announcement from the internet based on their future KSAs. The instruction is very much focused on their “needs, interests, and life destinies” (Kalantzis and Cope, 2012) and ultimately very interesting to teach!

I find myself not only shifting from the role of “sage on the stage to guide on the side”, but also become a mentor to help students discover their passions and realize their hopes and dreams. They also learn some of the psychology related to the cognitions of a human resource manager or AI filtering and reading the resumes. The architectonic features of this classroom involve chairs with wheels and desks affixed to them so students can move about the room freely and write things on theirs and each other's papers. The discursive model is very much focused on student-to-student interaction and the pedagogical models are task-based experiential and problem-based. (Kalantzis and Cope, 2012)

While many of the great thinkers really resonated with me, Rousseau really was the strongest. Not just in my own education, but also for my students’ language learning needs.

Teach your scholar to observe the phenomena of nature; you will soon rouse his curiosity, but if you would have it grow, do not be in too great a hurry to satisfy this curiosity. Put the problems before him and let him solve them himself. Let him know nothing because you have told him, but because he has learnt it for himself. If ever you substitute authority for reason he will cease to reason, he will be a mere plaything of other people’s thoughts. (Rousseau, 1762, p.15)

References

Arizona State University. (n.d.). What is Teach English Now?.https://teachenglish.asu.edu/content/what-teach-english-now

Kalantzis, M., & Cope, B. (2012). New learning: elements of a science of education(Second edition). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Kaufmann, T. (2020). Arizona State University TEN! Lesson Plan. images.

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. 1762 (1914). Emile, or Education. London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd. pp. 6, 81, 80–81, 126, 131.