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Summary
"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:
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.
Table of Contents
Reproducible Pages Directory |
Foreword |
Preface |
Publisher's Acknowledgments |
About the Author |
1 Basic Instructional Design |
From Here to Intuitive Teaching |
Experience and Practice |
Professional Teaching Standards |
Designing Powerful Lessons |
Planning a Basic Lesson |
Using the Basic Instructional Design Planning Guide |
Reflective Practice: Inner Dialogue |
2 Integrated Instructional Design |
An Integrated Approach to Learning |
Why Integrated Instruction Is a Good Idea |
Benefiting From Best Practice Models |
What Gets Integrated? |
Planning Integrated Instruction |
Using the Integrated Instructional Design Planning Guide |
Summary of General Planning Steps for Integrated Learning |
Reflective Practice: Inner Dialogue |
3 Differentiated Instructional Design |
The Many Facets of Differentiated Instruction |
Why Differentiated Instruction Is a Good Idea |
The Differentiated Classroom |
The Role of Learning Standards in Differentiated Instruction |
Teaching With a Differentiated Approach |
Textbooks and Differentiated Instruction |
Planning for Success in Differentiated Instruction |
Designing Learning Activities to Differentiate Instruction |
Planning Differentiated Instruction |
Using the Differentiated Instructional Design Planning Guide |
Summary of General Planning Steps for Differentiated Instruction |
Reflective Practice: Inner Dialogue |
4 Problem-Based Learning Instructional Design |
Problem-Based Learning Examined |
The Role of Learning Standards in a Problem-Based Learning Classroom |
Planning for Problem-Based Learning |
Effectively Leading Problem-Based Learning |
Planning Problem-Based Learning |
Using the Problem-Based Learning Planning Guide |
Summary of General Planning Steps for Problem-Based Learning |
Reflective Practice: Inner Dialogue |
Resources |
Bibliography |
Index |