What Every Teacher Should Know about Instructional Planning

By Donna E. Walker Tileston and Donna Walker Tileston

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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761931201
• ISBN13: 9780761931201
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Corwin Publishers
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"