‘Powerful Lesson Planning is an important book, offering essential guidance in the highly complex task of lesson planning. In this age of content standards and the high-stakes assessment of those standards, the teacher′s challenge in planning for instruction is more profound than ever.’
–From the Foreword by Charlotte Danielson
Revitalize your current practices, expand your repertoire of approaches, and improve learning for students!
Every teacher′s goal is to create a rich instructional environment for their students, and thoughtful, informed lesson planning is a key element in that process. Janice Skowron′s jump-start of a book offers novice and experienced teachers step-by-step, essential guidance in this challenging and oftentimes highly complex task. It brings into focus the decisions teachers face as they plan instruction and provides four progressively complex and nuanced models: basic, integrated, differentiated, and problem-based instruction. Descriptive information, numerous examples, and tools such as key questions, planning guides, and templates help educators develop proficiency in planning instruction.
This revised edition will:
- Help teachers incorporate the best practices for lesson planning
- Build the lesson-planning skills and repertoire of new teachers
- Revitalize instruction for veteran teachers
- Strengthen teachers′ abilities to plan standards-based lessons
- Help teachers focus on assessment in the initial phases of lesson planning
Powerful Lesson Planning will increase teachers′ competence and confidence–and help them master the skills needed to advance their practice and improve learning for all students.
Inhoudsopgave
Reproducible Pages Directory
Foreword
Preface
Publisher′s Acknowledgments
About the Author
1. Basic Instructional Design
From Here to Intuitive Teaching
Experience and Practice
Professional Teaching Standards
Designing Powerful Lessons
Planning a Basic Lesson
Using the Basic Instructional Design Planning Guide
Reflective Practice: Inner Dialogue
2. Integrated Instructional Design
An Integrated Approach to Learning
Why Integrated Instruction Is a Good Idea
Benefiting From Best Practice Models
What Gets Integrated?
Planning Integrated Instruction
Using the Integrated Instructional Design Planning Guide
Summary of General Planning Steps for Integrated Learning
Reflective Practice: Inner Dialogue
3. Differentiated Instructional Design
The Many Facets of Differentiated Instruction
Why Differentiated Instruction Is a Good Idea
The Differentiated Classroom
The Role of Learning Standards in Differentiated Instruction
Teaching With a Differentiated Approach
Textbooks and Differentiated Instruction
Planning for Success in Differentiated Instruction
Designing Learning Activities to Differentiate Instruction
Planning Differentiated Instruction
Using the Differentiated Instructional Design Planning Guide
Summary of General Planning Steps for Differentiated Instruction
Reflective Practice: Inner Dialogue
4. Problem-Based Learning Instructional Design
Problem-Based Learning Examined
The Role of Learning Standards in a Problem-Based Learning Classroom
Planning for Problem-Based Learning
Effectively Leading Problem-Based Learning
Planning Problem-Based Learning
Using the Problem-Based Learning Planning Guide
Summary of General Planning Steps for Problem-Based Learning
Reflective Practice: Inner Dialogue
Resources
Bibliography
Index
Over de auteur
Janice Skowron, Ed.D. is an educational consultant known for facilitating interactive, engaging workshops for teachers and administrators on curriculum and instructional planning in the reading and the language arts. Using research proven strategies, Dr. Skowron models and shows teachers how to create effective lessons for basic, integrated, differentiated, and problem based learning. She has experience as a classroom teacher, reading specialist, and school and district administrator at the elementary and middle school levels. Dr. Skowron is a frequent presenter at professional conferences and has authored numerous educational materials and articles.
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