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Instructional Planning for Effective Teaching
Cultivate meaningful learning schoolwide. Taking a practical approach to instructional planning, the authors outline research-based planning tools and illustrate how teachers, leaders, and administrators can use these tools in everyday practice. Discover powerful strategies and guidelines for developing quality lessons, setting learning objectives, planning differentiated instruction, and designing technology-integrated learning to effectively teach and challenge every student.
Benefits
- Explore specific planning methods to foster growth and development in teachers and students.
- Consider research that establishes the effectiveness of instructional planning strategies and methods.
- Discover how to move from research to practice in delivering effective planning and instruction.
- Access ready-to-use handouts to immediately implement proven planning methods and strategies.
- Review principles for planning instructional practices as a team.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Part I: Strategies for Unit and Lesson Planning
Chapter 1: Tactical Planning for Building Better Unit and Lesson Plans
Chapter 2: Setting Learning Objectives
Chapter 3: Organizing Learning Activities
Chapter 4: Selecting Meaningful and Purposeful Learning Materials
Chapter 5: Using Student Learning Data for Planning
Chapter 6: Designing Engaging Opening and Closing Activities
Part II: Strategies for Effective Instructional Planning
Chapter 7: Strategic Planning for Teachers
Chapter 8: Planning Differentiated Instruction for Gifted and High-Ability Learners
Chapter 9: Planning Differentiated Instruction for Struggling Learners
Chapter 10: Planning for Cross-Disciplinary Instruction
Chapter 11: Planning for Technology-Integrated Learning
Chapter 12: Team Planning
REPRODUCIBLES
Chapter 1
- Alternative Model for Unit or Lesson Planning
- Conventional Model for Unit or Lesson Planning: Hunter Plan Format
- Guiding Questions for Planning a Unit or Lesson
- Planning a Unit or Lesson: Self-Assessment
- Stronge Lesson-Planning Template
Chapter 2
- Learning Objectives Assessment Rubric
- Steps for Writing Learning Objectives
- Trifold Objectives: Dispositions (Noncognitive)
- Trifold Objectives: Knowledge and Skills
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
- Authentic Learning Materials
- Developmentally Appropriate Learning Materials
- Selecting and Evaluating Online Sources
Chapter 5
- Assessing Your Assessment Practices
- Percentage Mastery Formula for New Learning
- Using Formative Data for Instructional Planning
Chapter 6
- Effective Closing Activities
- Effective Opening Activities
- Opening and Closing Activities as Assessments
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
- Designing Advanced Learning
- Differentiated Instruction Design Template
- Interventions for Gifted and High-Ability Learners
Chapter 9
- Differentiated Instruction for Struggling Learners: Self-Assessment
- Improving Student Self-Efficacy
- Steps for Differentiation
Chapter 10
- Cross-Disciplinary Instruction Continuum
- Forms of Cross-Disciplinary Instruction
- Planning for Cross-Disciplinary Instruction: Self-Assessment
Chapter 11
- Adapting Technology to Your Subject Area
- Planning Technology-Integrated Learning: Self-Assessment
- Technology Integration Planning Model
Chapter 12
- Collaborative Planning Between General and Special Education Teachers
- Collaborative Planning: Self-Assessment
- Time Management
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