Powerful Lesson Planning: Every Teacher's Guide to Effective Instruction

by Janice E. Skowron

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781412937306
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	05/09/2006
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Janice Skowron, Ed.D. is an educational consultant known for facilitating interactive, engaging workshops for teachers and administrators on curriculum and instructional planning in the reading and the language arts. Using research proven strategies, Dr. Skowron models and shows teachers how to create effective lessons for basic, integrated, differentiated, and problem based learning. She has experience as a classroom teacher, reading specialist, and school and district administrator at the elementary and middle school levels. Dr. Skowron is a frequent presenter at professional conferences and has authored numerous educational materials and articles.

Table of Contents

Reproducible Pages Directory
Foreword
Preface
Publisher's Acknowledgments
About the Author
1. Basic Instructional Design
From Here to Intuitive Teaching
Experience and Practice
Professional Teaching Standards
Designing Powerful Lessons
Planning a Basic Lesson
Using the Basic Instructional Design Planning Guide
Reflective Practice: Inner Dialogue
2. Integrated Instructional Design
An Integrated Approach to Learning
Why Integrated Instruction Is a Good Idea
Benefiting From Best Practice Models
What Gets Integrated?
Planning Integrated Instruction
Using the Integrated Instructional Design Planning Guide
Summary of General Planning Steps for Integrated Learning
Reflective Practice: Inner Dialogue
3. Differentiated Instructional Design
The Many Facets of Differentiated Instruction
Why Differentiated Instruction Is a Good Idea
The Differentiated Classroom
The Role of Learning Standards in Differentiated Instruction
Teaching With a Differentiated Approach
Textbooks and Differentiated Instruction
Planning for Success in Differentiated Instruction
Designing Learning Activities to Differentiate Instruction
Planning Differentiated Instruction
Using the Differentiated Instructional Design Planning Guide
Summary of General Planning Steps for Differentiated Instruction
Reflective Practice: Inner Dialogue
4. Problem-Based Learning Instructional Design
Problem-Based Learning Examined
The Role of Learning Standards in a Problem-Based Learning Classroom
Planning for Problem-Based Learning
Effectively Leading Problem-Based Learning
Planning Problem-Based Learning
Using the Problem-Based Learning Planning Guide
Summary of General Planning Steps for Problem-Based Learning
Reflective Practice: Inner Dialogue
Resources
Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

"Powerful Lesson Planning is an important book, offering essential guidance in the highly complex task of lesson planning and providing teachers with guidance as they increase their lesson planning proficiency. In this age of content standards and the high-stakes assessment of those standards, the teacher's challenge in planning for instruction is more profound than ever. "

From the Foreword by Charlotte Danielson

"Powerful Lesson Planning is an important book, offering essential guidance in the highly complex task of lesson planning and providing teachers with guidance as they increase their lesson planning proficiency. In this age of content standards and the high-stakes assessment of those standards, the teacher's challenge in planning for instruction is more profound than ever. "

Charlotte Danielson