Knowing Your Students
Example: This lesson uses the lens of Indigenous education. I am teaching this lesson so that students will identify how story is used by Indigenous Peoples to express perspectives and belief.
What is the Lesson Rationale?
Describes the learning and teaching that has taken place prior to this lesson in a previous grade, subject or class necessary for success.
What is Prior Learning?
Responsibility, Organization, Independent Work, Collaboration, Initiative, Self-Regulation
What are Learning Skills and Work Habits?
How you will gather and record the information for the assessment task.
What is an Assessment Tool?
Educators decide which actions to take to help students progress in their learning
What is Assessment FOR Learning?
Example: Give students the choice of how they will represent their learning e.g., summary notes, graphic organizer, presentation of their choosing after discussion with teacher
What is Differentiation of Product?
Example: Have all safety materials and PPE’s available (guards, eye wear). Different species of wood, patterns for projects. Safety cards posted at each piece of equipment and at finishing tables.
What are Materials, Preparation, Safety Concerns?
Describe how the lesson will introduce new learning, extend/reinforce prior learning, and provide opportunities for practice and application.
What is Action?
Identifies and describes what students will be doing to address the learning goals for this lesson
What is the Assessment Task?
Example: Student A didn’t grasp the concept. What can I do to help them make connections to prior learning?
What is Reflection?
A different set of program expectations identified by IEP for students unable to achieve expectations of the Ontario Curriculum.
What are Alternatives?
Describes in student friendly language what students are striving to achieve in this lesson
What are Learning Goals?
Identify what should students KNOW and be able to DO by the end of this lesson.
What are Overall and Specific Curriculum Expectations?
Example: Presentation of a Science Fair Project at the end of an Inquiry unit
What is Assessment OF Learning?
Example: Students will respond to Kahoot quiz to self-assess learning of key concepts from the lesson. Teacher will clarify concepts using examples from the lesson.
What is Consolidation?
Adaptations to curriculum expectations identified by IEP. Students are expected to complete tasks within the same curriculum strands as the class but at a different grade level.
What are Modifications?
Describes in student friendly language what successful attainment of the learning goal looks like for this lesson.
What are Success Criteria?
Example: Time: 10 Min, Small Group: Students will be randomly assigned to groups of 4 and challenged to organize or create a pattern using a variety of objects (loose parts) and explain their choice.
What is Minds-On?
Use this to help analyze what students are able to do based on the established success criteria
What is the Assessment Tool?
Example: Descriptive feedback to students linked to success criteria
What is Assessment FOR Learning?
Example: IEP identified speech-to-text/text-to-speech software used for Student A to complete the same lesson task as other students
What is an Accommodation?
Example: We are learning to identify the symbol of an element based on its position on the periodic table and structure.
What is a Learning Goal?
Students decide what they need to do next in order to progress in their learning, i.e., Checking their own work against success criteria
What is Assessment AS Learning?
Example: Students will select two images that they think demonstrate appropriation and explain why
What is Assessment OF Learning?
Example: Student B shared a concern in their journal about experiencing a macroaggression during the small group task. Does my classroom practice promote equity?
What is Reflection?