Focused Lesson Planning

Urban Fraefel

doi:10.5771/9781475869118

Summary

This book shows teachers how to plan units and lessons in a highly focused and effective way. Readers are introduced to a professional planning strategy that is lean and timesaving, without wasting energy on side issues. This approach takes as its starting point the students and the outcomes they need to achieve and focuses the entire planning process on making sure students will be successful. With this backward approach, all planning steps are focused on the goal of learning success, keeping teachers from overplanning, underplanning, or misplanning. The book highlights the importance of tasks as planning tools for teachers. Well-set tasks reveal the teacher's intentions and the content to be learned, and they show students what will be assessed and how. How to develop and apply planning around meaningful tasks is a key focus.

Thanks to numerous suggestions for learning activities, this book is suitable for independent work through,but it can also be used with profit by teacher educators and cooperating teachers.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2023
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4758-6909-5
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4758-6911-8
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 130
Product type: Book Titles

1. 1. Foreword No access
  2. Preface No access
1 The Approach in Brief No access Pages 1 - 6
2 The Primacy of Impact and the Wisdom of Practitioners No access Pages 7 - 20
3 Rethinking Conventions of Lesson Planning No access Pages 21 - 28
4 The Key Principle of Planning Units Backward No access Pages 29 - 36
5 Planning a Unit No access Pages 37 - 44
6 Planning a Lesson Backward No access Pages 45 - 58
7 Planning Lessons by and with Student Teachers No access Pages 59 - 68
8 What Goals for Units? What Expected Results? What Tasks? No access Pages 69 - 92
9 From Unit to Lesson: Two Goals per Lesson, and Assessment No access Pages 93 - 102
10 More on Assessment No access Pages 103 - 122
Epilogue No access Pages 123 - 124
References No access Pages 125 - 128
About the Author No access Pages 129 - 130