PENT: Lesson planning

When teachers and students are both engaged in the educational enterprise, every day has the potential to be transformative. Lesson Planning with Purpose takes readers on a journey through many pathways to engaging and meaningful educational experiences. The text first discusses perceptive teaching: the belief that teachers must know themselves and their students while cultivating culturally sensitive, safe, and inviting spaces for learning for all students. Next, five unique approaches to lesson planning are explored: behaviorist, constructivist, aesthetic, ecological, and integrated social-emotional learning. Each chapter provides the rationale for the approach, its theoretical background, practical applications, and critiques and considerations. Chapters end with a sample lesson that can be compared across approaches. Book Features: A comprehensive examination of multiple approaches to lesson planning. Guidance for teachers on when to choose various approaches, as well as how they might mix and match and blend ideas. User-friendly lesson plan templates, sample lessons, and discussion questions. An appendix with lesson plan examples written by practicing teachers across content areas and age groups.

"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.

Powerful Lesson Planning: Every Teacher′s Guide to Effective Instruction offers teachers step-by-step guidance in planning lessons. This resource begins with the process of using a basic lesson planning model and then describes how to use three more complex models--integrated, differentiated, and problem-based instruction. Planning guides, templates, and numerous examples are presented in teacher-friendly formats to help develop planning proficiency. The revised edition includes updated research, expanded attention to assessment, and new examples of lessons for different grade levels and content areas. This handbook is useful to both the novice teacher seeking a step-by-step guide, and the experienced teacher who wants to revitalize classroom instruction.

How do I plan lessons for today's diverse classrooms? This book helps pre-service teachers answer this question and learn to create and use such lessons in their classrooms. It is the first book to provide well-developed content-specific lesson plans that reflect cultural diversity in the United States. Rather than taking the traditional foundations-oriented, culture and history approach, this text translates that cultural and historical knowledge of specific minority groups into examples for instructional use. The text features entire field-tested units for elementary and middle grades in four content areas, language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies. For example, in the language arts unit, "Stories, Stories, Stories," students tell, write, and read stories that build on their cultural background and experiences. The math unit explores informal geometry in the patterns of Navajo rugs, African textiles, and Mexican pottery. The science unit connects weather experiences to cultural folk myths and sayings. The social studies unit examines changing requirements for voting in the USA. The text can be used as a supplement for general or elementary methods, student field experience, or multicultural education, or as a main text in practice-oriented multicultural education and multicultural curriculum courses.

Planning is a key element in enriching and enlarging teachers' repertoires and ensuring effective instruction that supports students' academic achievement. Drawing on practices from many different areas of education in the United States and throughout the world, Planning for Learning presents an approach to lesson planning and evaluation that will work in today's diverse school settings. A rich resource for professional development, this book demonstrates collaborative lesson planning for teachers at particular career phases--preservice, novice, and experienced. Chapters include descriptions of valuable strategies, along with examples of teachers' responses. Book Features: A focus on teachers' planning processes and models from around the globe, including Japanese lesson study Discussion of key issues in the field of education, including reflective practice, inclusive education, meeting standards, accountability, and teacher retention Practical strategies to promote collegiality and more meaningful collaboration between basic and higher education An examination of the impact of the Internet and other technologies on lesson planning

The Strategic Teacher offers a repertoire of strategies designed and proven to meet today's high standards and reach diverse learners. Twenty reliable, flexible strategies (along with dozens of variations) are organized into these groups of instruction:   ·        mastery style to emphasize the development of student memory; ·        understanding style to expand students' capacities to reason and explain; ·        self-expressive style to stimulate and nourish students' imaginations and creativity; ·        interpersonal style to help students find meaning in the relationships they forge as partners and team members, united in the act of learning; and ·        four-style strategies that integrate all four styles.

This book is full of practical, instructional strategies to help foster high levels of student achievement in the block schedule. It contains strategies for differentiation, powerful brain-based teaching techniques, creative approaches to productively organizing extended periods of time, and proactive classroom management tips. It adds to the repertoire every teacher needs to assure no child is left behind in the teaching-learning process.

Support mathematical understanding in your instructional program through this rich collection of easy-to-use teaching resources. Each book focuses on a specific arithmetic topic and offers a series of classroom-tested lessons addressing the three important aspects of arithmetic instruction--computation, number sense, and problem solving. The lessons include step-by-step directions, amount of time needed, materials required, classroom vignettes, samples of student work, reproducibles, and a discussion of the math underlying the lesson.

Teach students how to practice writing skills independently - so learning sticks Simply Stations: Writing shows how to ensure that elementary students are purposefully and effectively practicing pre-writing, storyboarding, peer editing, revising, word banks, and punctuation and spelling every day. Your students will soon be purposefully engaged and making critical steps to owning their learning. Debbie Diller has been refining literacy stations (sometimes called centers) for more than 40 years, working with thousands of teachers and students. In this book, she guides you step-by-step through planning for instruction that incorporates literacy standards, setting up and launching writing stations, varying and refreshing content, to reflection and ongoing modification. What stands out in this book is the full integration of instruction; Debbie shows how whole-group lessons transfer to stations work so students are practicing key skills independently - and gives you everything needed for success: Recommendations by grade level at every step, including grade-appropriate materials and writing resources for each station Whole-group lesson plans, differentiated by grade level and based on key literacy standards, to introduce and support partner work; On-the-spot formative assessment ideas and troubleshooting tips; Ideas to improve English Language Learners' writing skills, including online Spanish-language materials; 40 time-saving downloadable resources for teachers and students to ensure success; and Dozens of full-color, real-classroom photos so you see the possibilities first-hand. Simply Stations: Writing gives you invaluable tips, solutions, and insight that can transform the way your students learn and practice writing skills. It's time to boost the impact of your literacy stations!

The expert's guide to making LISC work for you! Learning intentions and success criteria can have an enormous positive impact on student learning--you know that, in theory. This practical how-to guide helps turn that theory into practice. In over twenty years of research, Shirley Clarke has found that the key to understanding, creating, and implementing learning intentions and success criteria is to focus on the process of learning rather than the product, or end result. Here she shows you: * How to phrase learning intentions, organize and plan for them, and share them with students * How to create success criteria to fit each learning intention * How to adapt these practices to different disciplines--with examples * Implementation strategies based on real-life teacher success stories Let the expert do the research for you. With Shirley's guidance, you'll discover a simple process that leads to teacher clarity--and student success.

"In Centering African Proverbs, Indigenous Folktales, and Cultural Stories in Curriculum, skilled experts George J. Sefa Dei and Mairi McDermott develop effective ways of delivering education to the evermore-diverse groups of learners in schools. This new edited collection aims to improve educational practices in pluralistic contexts by substantively engaging African proverbs, Indigenous folktales, and cultural stories in curricular and pedagogical decisions. Each contributor works with a different proverb, folktale, or cultural story as a core text for a unique unit of their design. Along with detailed notes for the instructor, each contributor writes a reflection on the process of designing the unit with anti-racism theory as a guiding principle. This innovative volume will serve as a wonderful companion to courses within Bachelor of Education, Masters of Education, and Masters of Teaching programs across Canada and the United States." Description from Amazon books