Lesson Plan

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Subject

Grade

Topic

State/National Standards

These will be inserted in the LiveText template. Do not enter anything here.

Primary Objective

Include the audience, behavior, criterion, and demonstration of performance. This differs from state and national standards in that it is specific enough to drive instructional activities and assessment.

Pre-Assessment

Assesses prior knowledge concerning the objective. In a unit introductory lesson this might be more thorough than in a mid-unit lesson. In a typical lesson, this might involve a brief check for understanding of the previous day’s lesson.

If the pre-assessment is an activity, describe it in detail, explaining how it will help you know student skill level and how that knowledge will impact your instruction.

If the pre-assessment is a pre-test, note that here and attach it in LiveText.

Classroom Diversity

State classroom diversity; demonstrate an understanding of the characteristics and a response to the varying of abilities, learning and cultural styles, and behaviors of individuals with special needs.

Differentiation

Explain how your instruction will account for the classroom diversity described above.

Materials / Equipment

List any materials needed by both the teacher and student to carry out this lesson.

Attach in LiveText as many materials as you possibly can. Be creative. Include worksheets, PowerPoints, bulletin board sketches/pictures, templates, etc.

Appropriate Technology Integration

Technology connection that shows how teacher/students will utilize it.

Character Principle

Identify the specific character principle that will be integrated into this lesson. If your lesson is for a Christian school, include a supporting Bible verse.

LESSON PRESENTATION

As frequently as is appropriate, provide throughout the lesson engaging activities rather than passive ones. Also, activities should promote critical thinking reflective of the upper levels of Bloom’s taxonomy of cognitive skills (see textbook).

Set

Provide a beneficial way to begin the lesson and create a sense of interest for the students.

Teacher Instruction / Modeling

Explain the content and/or skill and how it will be taught. Contain detailed steps in such a way that another teacher could plainly follow the directions in order to carry out the lesson.

Attach in LiveText any materials you will use in your instruction. For example, you might attach a lecture outline, a list of questions for discussion, PowerPoints, etc.

Guided Student Practice

Provide an assignment, activity or experience that helps to guide the student to learn the stated objective.

Attach in LiveText any materials the students will need in their guided practice.

Independent Student Practice

Provide an assignment, activity or experience that allows individual practice for positive learning results for the stated objective.

Attach in LiveText any materials the students will need in their independent practice.

Closure

A brief activity, quote, question, summary, etc., is provided that will summarize/solidify the main points.

If this lesson is the last in a unit, the closure might be more thorough than in a mid-unit lesson.

Summative Assessment

Provide an evaluation that matches the objective and attaches the evaluation tool.

In a mid-unit lesson, this will be a brief activity or quiz. In a final unit lesson, this will be a traditional paper-pencil test or performance/product assessment.

Include a detailed description of how you will assess the lesson’s object and what you will do with that information. If materials such as a quiz are used, attach them in LiveText.