Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Breaking Down a Lesson Plan

I have been looking at/implementing lesson plans as a substitute teacher for some time now, and I never really stopped to think about how many steps are involved in creating a GOOD lesson.

FYI...there are quite a few.

First of all, let's define what a lesson and a plan are.

A lesson is the smallest segment of the learning process.

A plan is a forecast of what you intend to teach.

In every lesson plan, there is an introduction, development, and closure. As a class, my classmates created a list of what is involved in the creation of a lesson plan. When you REALLY break it down, it looks a little like this:

Rationale
Standards, goals, objectives
Accommodations
Prior knowledge
Anticipatory set
Modeling
Guided practice
Feedback
Review
Independent practice
Feedback
And a partridge in a pear tree.

Okay, forget the last part, but as you can see there a lot of steps.

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