A lesson plan is

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A lesson plan is

• a teacher's detailed description of the course
  of instruction for an individual lesson.
• it tells what to do, in what order to do it, and
  what procedure to use in teaching the material of
  a lesson.

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Lesson plans answer 3 questions..

• Where are my students going (objectives)?How
  are they going to get there (activities
  teaching methods strategies)?How will I know
  when they've arrived (assessment)?

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Lesson Plan OrganizationBegin with the end in
mind..

• What do you want the students to learn from this
  lesson?
• What standards are you meeting?
• What does the state or your district require?
• What age students are you trying to reach?
• How are you going to assess that learning?
• Once you've determined this, write a quick
  description and list out your objectives for the
  assignment.

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The 6 Step Lesson Cycle

• The lesson cycle is a way of organizing a lesson.
  
• You may read about several versions and
  different interpretations of the lesson cycle.
• Today we will examine one lesson cycle model
  adapted from the work of Madeline Hunter.

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6 1 Steps of The Lesson Cycle

• Focus motivation/ Anticipatory Set
• Objective
• Direct Instruction
• Guided practice
• Independent practice assessment
• Closure
• 1 Required Materials Equipment

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1. Focus/Motivation/Anticipatory Set

• This is an activity, an item, or event to get the
  students attention and interest and relate the
  lesson to prior learning or knowledge

• Pictures
• Items of interest
• Stories
• Questions

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2. Objectives

• Statements of what the students will know or be
  able to do at the end of the lesson (may take
  more than 1 day).
• Must be clearly defined, measurable and in line
  with district and/or state educational standards.
• Use Blooms Taxonomy as a guide to writing
  objectives.

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2. Objectives

• EXAMPLES
• By the end of the class period the student will
  state and briefly explain the steps of the
  Hunter Lesson Cycle Model.
• The student-intern will apply or use appropriate
  steps of a Lesson Cycle when making lesson plans
  for his/her host school.

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3. Direct Instruction

• This section explicitly delineates how you will
  present the lesson's concepts to your students.
• Teachers should use a variety of instructional
  strategies suited to the class and to individual
  students their learning styles and individual
  needs.
• .

• Lectures verbal explanations
• Demonstrates/models
• Uses audio-visual presentation
• Hands on activities
• What are some others?
• .

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3. Direct Instruction

• During DI, the teacher moves the student from
  what he/she knows to what the teacher wants
  him/her to learn (i.e., the lesson objective).

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Apply what you have learned.

• Principles of Development
• Maslows Hierarchy of Needs/ Student Basic Needs
• Piagets Intellectual/Cognitive Developmental
  Stages
• Gardners Theory of Multiple Intelligences
• Individual Learning Styles
• Various teaching methods

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3. Direct Instruction

• GOAL During D.I. the students are actively
  engaged
• .

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4. Guided Practice

• Students
• - practice apply what they have just
  learned through activities class work.
• Teacher
• - monitors continuously
• - gives immediate feedback
• - re-teaches as necessary

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5. Independent Practice Assessment

• Matches the objective.
• Allows the teacher to assess the individual
  students learning.
• Allows student to demonstrate whether or not
  they absorbed the lesson's learning goals.
• Independent Practice Homework assignments or
  other independent assignments,
• Assessment tests, quizzes, etc.

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6. Closure

• The Teacher
• Restates the objective
• Summarizes/reviews the main point
• Retells the importance of the lesson
• Relates it to future learning
• Could this be done through more questioning and
  answering?

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1 Required Materials Equipment

• supplies required to help your students achieve
  the stated lesson objectives.

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Activity (Guided practice) Make a moving model
of the 6 step lesson cycle

• You are going to make a pinwheel (it goes around
  in a cycle just like the lesson plan cycle)
  with 1 step of the lesson cycle on each blade.
• This is particularly for the kinesthetic learners
  like your teacher.

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Today you have learned the steps of the lesson
cycle

• These steps are
• Focus motivation (anticipatory set)
• State the Objective
• Direct instruction
• Guided practice
• Independent practice assessment
• Closure
• 1 required materials equipment

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You will use the steps of the lesson cycle as you
plan lessons for your classes.
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Lesson Planning

• An understanding of the lesson cycle, together
  with your knowledge of developmental information,
  students needs, multiple intelligences, and a
  sensitivity to learning styles, will help you
  master student instruction. Later you will learn
  more about how questioning skills and classroom
  management techniques, such as time on task,
  impact lesson planning.

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Internet Sites

• 1.http//www.fac.swt.edu/bond/Block/ZNotesonTeachi
  ng
• 2.http//www.humbolt.edu/-tha 1/hunter-eei
• 3.http//www.huntington.edu/education/lessonplanni
  ng/Hunter
• 4.http//www.hope.edu/academic/education/wecondar
  y_Block_Revised/unit4/hunter1
• 5.http//www.techtools.uncg.edu/techtools/program/
  5E