English Education (7-12)

BS and MSEd Programs Instructional Plan

Lesson Focus: Duration of Class:

Subject: Grade Level:

Class Description: Briefly describe (i.e., ethnicity, culture, linguistics & learning abilities) the students in your class; including any special needs (IEP, hearing or visually impaired, etc.) This information should affect your lesson plan.

Pre-assessment: How will you figure out where students are right now with a particular concept, topic and/or skill? What difficulties might students experience in this area, and how do you plan to anticipate these difficulties?

Essential Question: What is the big idea you want students to ponder as they experience the unit? How will you grab the students’ attention in this lesson?

Objectives/SWABT: Students will be able to do or learn 2-3 bullet items; objectives must be observable (use active verbs) so they can be easily assessed; objectives must be aligned with PI’s above, instruction, and assessments?

Preparation/Instructional materials and resources: Print text, technology, video, multimodal, etc.

Presentation: (lecture, whole-class, flexible group, lit circles, centers, etc.)

Anticipatory Set: Procedures for instruction (include differentiated instruction based on class description). How do you plan to engage all the students? What will you do? What will the students do?

Assessment Evaluation (formative/summative): How do you plan to monitor and assess student achievement of the objectives? What procedures will you uses? How do you plan to make use of the assessments results?

Instructional Rationale and Alignment: How are the objectives, PI’s, instruction, and assessments (pre-assessment, formative/summative) aligned? Why are these objectives and the instructions suitable for this group of students (based on class description)?

Closure: How will you stop the lesson? Closure is important, so make sure the plan includes reasonable timing.

Instructor Reflection: What went well? What did not go so well and why?