Powerful Lesson Planning Models

Guide to teaching and creating lesson plans Covers four types of instructional design Useful for teachers with all levels of experience Have you ever wondered how to maximize your lesson plans? Do you want to get the most out of every minute that you teach? Powerful Lesson Planning: Every Teacher’s Guide to Effective Instruction will help you accomplish those goals. This book includes summaries of basic instructional design, integrated instructional design, differentiated instructional design, and problem-based learning instructional design. It shares different teaching strategies and is especially helpful for beginner teachers. This guide emphasizes the decisions that teachers make as they plan lessons and classes. It includes descriptive information, tools, and several examples to help every teacher make their lesson plans well.

This jump-start of a book offers four planning models and provides novice and experienced teachers with step-by-step, essential guidance in the challenging task of lesson planning.

From the Publisher: Are you looking to construct a lesson plan that will help K-12 students master new content, concepts, and skills? Lesson Planning: A Research-based Model for K-12 Classrooms can help by guiding you in the selection of research-based instructional strategies and types of materials designed to consider all learners' needs. Part I establishes the theoretical foundations of the ideas used in the lesson planning process. Part II is a step-by-step guide to developing direct and inquiry-based lesson plans. Meeting the Needs of all learners-woven throughout each chapter, the authors address the diverse needs of students. INTASC Standards Correlation Guide appears on the inside front cover to help readers quickly identify the lessons that meet each standard. Connections to the INTASC Standards are woven throughout each chapter's content and activities. Unit Connections explain how the chapter's content is used in the development of a unit. Technology in Education (TiE)-a feature throughout the book provide practical help in the lesson planning process including rubric generating sites, lesson plan templates, ideas for lesson activities, and links to useful classroom materials. Reality Check, a feature in each chapter, provides advice from practicing classroom teachers who represent a range of subjects and grade levels. Your Turn feature at the end of each chapter helps you create your own standards-based lesson plan in both direct and indirect instruction formats.

New teachers begin their careers with great enthusiasm and purpose, but often face many challenges in their first years of teaching. A New Teacher's Guide to Best Practices supports new teachers with guidelines for applying best teaching practices to improve their professional effectiveness. Organized around the Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (INTASC) standards, this reflective workbook is full of best-practice tools and strategies. Each chapter focuses on a different teaching challenge-"practical problems" that teachers face daily-and offers research-based solutions, along with teacher tips and student perspectives from across the country. An invaluable resource for new teachers to use at their own pace, or for staff developers presenting teacher induction workshops, this richly detailed text invites new teachers to: Record their present beliefs Outline their aspirations Define their goals and objectives Set a course of action to reach those goals and objectives Enter into dialogue with colleagues and mentors for continued professional growth Through planning, self-reflection, and dialogue, new teachers can enrich their teaching experience, expand their personal and professional goals for success, and shape the way they view their practice and profession.

Step-by-step advice to help teachers master classroom management, lesson design, student engagement, and beyond Always a Lesson: Teacher Essentials for Classroom and Career Success is the book that can turn every good teacher into a great teacher. The art and science of teaching can be difficult to navigate. There are moving pieces that change how teachers should approach instruction, like unique student needs year after year, curriculum changes, updated research on best practices and more. It's essential that teachers of all levels continue to learn and develop their craft so that they can best manage these moving pieces. Using personal stories and tangible next steps gained from her experience as a teacher and teacher leader, author Gretchen Bridgers can level-up your teaching, filling the gap left between traditional teacher-training programs and the real world. With high teacher turnover rates in the wake of the great resignation that occurred post-COVID, teachers need support more than ever. Always a Lesson offers a systematic process for strengthening the skillset of any teacher. The sequence of what teachers work on is the key to move through obstacles and increase effectiveness. No matter their level of expertise, Bridgers takes the stance that all teachers are learners. By applying the principles and strategies in this book, novice to veteran teachers will see a positive impact on student learning and their proficiency as an elite educator. K-12 teachers, teacher mentors, instructional coaches, school administrators, and anyone else with an interest in improving teacher retention will thank their lucky stars for this book.