The essential guide to lesson planning in the standards-based classroom!
Use this clear-sighted guide to keep your focus on what your students need to know and be able to do. Based on state-of-the-art research, this guide will take you from pre-planning through reflection, evidence of learning, and teaching for transfer to real-life situations. Topics include:
Pre-planning tools and backward design
Using standards
Building effective declarative objectives
Designing behavioral objectives
Helping students organize and store knowledge
Evidence of learning: Do they understand? Can they use the information?
Planning meaningful learning experiences
Building connections between old and new knowledge
Putting lesson planning into practice
Specific parts of the lesson
Declarative knowledge, procedural knowledge, and reflection