Lesson Planning Information
Considered to be detailed with lots of questions
What is a Lesson
Centers around the gradual release of responsibility, Goal oriented, opportunities for practice and feedback, focused and aligned, and teacher scaffolding
What are the characteristics of direct instruction?
This begins with clear learning objectives, and questioning must stay focused on those objectives
What is effective teaching?
A teaching technique that involves an exchange of ideas, with active learning and participation by all concerned
What is a discussion?
A teacher is demonstrating this when they are using many different strategies throughout a unit and the school year as a means to differentiate their instruction and be responsible
What is balance?
Contains the attention-getter, connects prior knowledge, and states a "student-friendly" objective
What is the induction/introduction?
Researchers support teachers who produced more learning in their students than would be expected based on the student's background, Observational learning, and social interactions
What are the reasons for using direct instruction?
Accesses current understanding guides new learning and increases student motivation
What are the reasons for questioning?
Communication, respectful listening, reflectively listening, and avoiding dominating the discussion
What are the elements of a positive discussion?
This refers to teachers providing concepts, meanings, and examples and then students applying them.
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This refers to teachers providing examples, leading questions, and the students discovering concepts.
What are deductive strategies?
What are inductive strategies?
This is the portion of the lesson where content is introduced
What is the I DO?
Understanding, automaticity, and transfer
What are the goals of direct instruction?
Questioning frequency, equitable distribution, open ending questions, prompting, repetition
What are the elements of effective questioning?
Prepare students (make sure they have the appropriate background knowledge to participate in the discussion) and prepare the room (horseshoe and half-circle work best for the whole class; clusters work best for small groups )
What are the teacher's roles before the discussion?
This is the I DO of the lesson.
What is the meat of the lesson?
In this section of the lesson guided practice and teacher scaffolding are applied
What is the We Do?
This makes the questioning process in direct instruction vital. This can be very motivational to students.
What is feedback?
Responding to incorrect answers, low and high-level questions, wait time, selecting students, call-outs, and choral response
What is essential information for classroom questioning information?
Sets agenda, frames questions, leads discussions, monitors progress, clarifies statements, informally assesses, concludes/summarizes what was discussed
What is the teacher's role during the discussion?
This is what demonstration is also referred to
What is modeling?
Independent practice along with monitored learning is taking place in this section
What is the You Do?
These two areas of content are most suitable for two direct instruction
What are skills and concepts?
Listen respectfully (do not interrupt and maintain eye contact) and listen reflectively (focus on what the student is saying and expand on what the student says)
What is active listening?
This has the ability to have cognitive and affective goals
What are discussions?
a ---- differs from -- --- and ----- in that it does not require ----- techniques. It does involve re-teaching and is intended to reinforce previously learned material and sometimes give new meaning to the material. ----- can be in the form of summaries at the ends of lessons, units, or terms; quiz games; outlines, discussions; questioning sessions; and other approaches.
What is review, drill and practice, drill, reviews?