What Every Teacher Should Know About Instructional Planning

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
• Building a model for lesson planning
• Vocabulary pre-test, post-test, and summary
• Bibliography and Index