Planning successful instruction:

-know your ending objectives for students to be accountable for

-Conceptual Growth: concepts building upon one another

-Demonstrate Proficiency: how students will show info learned

-Assessing Understanding- find out how much they already know

Lesson Plans:- outline the steps to take in implementing instruction & forms of Assessment

-Unit description

-Learning targets

Learning experiences

-Explanation of learning rationale

-Assessments

Quantifiable & qualitive Data: help ascertain if student learning  has taken place & effective teaching has occured

Include State standards!

Long term considerations:

be knowledgeable about the writing Behavioral objectives of State & local guidelines

-Are they Measurable

-Align goals with needs- check student's cumulative file for reading level & prior knowledge.

Adjust objectives to specific needs

Consturcting & Organizing Objectives:

Developed for higher level learning-

-Comprhension; understand definition

-Application;apply definition

-synthesis;add info

-evaluation;judge the value of something

Strategies-

Emergent Curriculum: projects & themes that are inspired by the student's interests

Webbing: planning & recording curriculum, generate ideas for activities, projects- ideas are grouped by different areas

Selecting assessments-

- keep in mind different kinds of tests  measure different types of development

-Use variety of tasks

- assess the readiness by performing a relative task

Components of Lesson Plans-

1. Written Instructional LP- Guidelines for what is being taught & how they can acess info

2. Unit Description-Describes learning & classroom environment

-classroom characteristics-physical

-Student characteristics-#, genders

3.Learning Goals/Targets/objectives- expectations?, appropriatness to state level, grade level, etc....

4.Learning Experiences: how will student learning be supported using the learning goals?

-prior knowledge?

-how to engage

-how will it be modified

-muticultural aspect

assessments

-Internet, resources

- student grouping?

5. Rationales - Provide data on how it addresses learning goals& objectives

6. Assessments- Constructing pre & post assessments

Differention- describes the variations of curriculum & instruction that can be provided to class

Ways-

-Content: info learned

-Process-route to learning content

-product- results of learning

Keys-

-Know what is essential

-Know needs

Collaborative Learning-

Walther-Thomas;Collaboration for Inclusive Education

-ongoing professional development to provide teachers opportunities to create effective instruction

Intergrated Approach- tacher, parent, &community are integral apexes to the student learning

Colaborative teaching, Networking