Lesson Planning
A teacher’s guide for facilitating a lesson
What is a lesson plan?
A process that leads to change, which occurs as a result of experience and increases the potential for improved performance.
What is learning?
Promotes learning practices that prepare students to learn in environments that require self-direction.
What is metacognitive scaffolding?
The 6 levels of Blooms' Taxonomy.
What is remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, and creating?
This type of feedback provides specific information for a particular student.
What is individual feedback?
Those actions or statements by a teacher that are designed to bring a presentation to a conclusion.
What is closure?
Open-ended questions created to promote student inquiry and help focus student understanding.
What is an essential question?
After giving instructions, the teacher shows students examples of what is expected as an end product of their work.
What is modeling?
Open ended questions that have many appropriate answers.
What are divergent questions?
Corrective comments about past behavior. Focuses on behavior that wasn’t successful and shouldn’t be repeated.
What is negative feedback?
This part of the lesson grabs the student’s attention and helps to relate the experiences of the students to the objectives of the lesson.
What is an anticipatory set or hook?
These are the 3 steps of the teaching process.
What is plan, implement, and evaluate?
An Instructional practice where a teacher gradually removes guidance and support as students learn and become more competent.
What is scaffolding?
Questions that have one correct or "best" answer.
What are convergent questions?
Affirming comments about past behavior. Focuses on behavior that was successful and should be continued.
What is positive feedback?
This part of the lesson plan clarifies what should students be able to do after a lesson.
What is the objective?
This is the part of the teaching process that teacher puts into action what has been planned.
A teaching and tutoring method in which the tutor controls elements of a task that are beyond the student's initial abilities.
What is cognitive scaffolding?
Questions that include hints, clues, or aids to help students come to the correct initial response.
What are prompting questions?
A form of performance feedback used to improve student achievement.
What is corrective feedback?
Assessment that is done at points throughout the lesson and unit to assess the students continued understanding of the content.
What is a formative assessment?
The principal elements that make teaching and learning possible and attainable.
What are the teachers, the learners, and a conducive learning environment?
Think-Pair-Share is a popular example of this instructional technique.
What is scaffolding?
Questions that are needed to help further clarify a student's initial response.
What are probing questions?
Feedback that provides some information about learning, but does not convey the information and guidance that students can use to improve.
What is evaluative feedback?