SIX STEPS TO EFFECTIVE LESSON PLANNING

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SIX STEPS TO EFFECTIVE LESSON PLANNING

• Expectations
• Pre-assessment
• Assessment

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• 4. Content
• 5. Strategies
• 6. Reflections

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EXPECTATIONS

• Derived from current Ministry of Education
  Guidelines
• Can be modified as appropriate to reflect a
  students current I.E.P.

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PRE-ASSESSMENT

• What do you know about the learners needs?
• What needs to be done to make the learning
  environment suitable for the lesson?
• What resources will be needed?

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ASSESSMENT

• Backward design
• Tell the learner what he/she will know or be able
  to do at the end of the lesson.
• Determine how the learners will demonstrate their
  learning.
• Consider including choices to accommodate
  learning styles.
• Try to integrate assessment with expectations
  from other subject areas.

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CONTENT

• Introduction hook them!
• - See p.62 of Creating the
• Dynamic Classroom for
  some
• general motivation
  strategies
• Establishing the Learning
• - model, model , model!

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STRATEGIES

• Move through the 4 Phases of Instruction
• - Motivation ( the hook)
• - New Learning ( model)
• - Consolidation ( use new
  
• learning in near contexts)
• - Application(s) ( use new
• learning in far or removed
• contexts)
• Strategies can be accommodated for special
  needs.

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REFLECTIONS

• Were expectations achieved?
• Were strategies effective?
• What should be done differently next time?
• Establish next steps for solidifying this
  learning.