The The Lesson Planning Handbook: Essential Strategies That Inspire Student Thinking and Learning

by Peter Brunn

Overview

Great teachers often make teaching look almost effortless but, inevitably, if you look closer, you’ll discover their “perfect lessons” are the result of thoughtful planning and strategic organization. Peter Brunn draws from his own teaching experience as well as years of classroom research with hundreds of teachers across the country to bring you the steps, strategies, and structures successful teachers use to organize and manage their lessons so that you, too, can experience success with every lesson you teach. Even if you are using a program or mandated curriculum, there are ways to weave in Brunn’s findings about effective teaching. Learn how to address the standards while crafting lessons that ignite student thinking, foster student engagement and independent learning, and, in all ways, create a classroom environment that promotes academic success.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780545087452
Publisher:	Scholastic, Inc.
Publication date:	01/01/2010
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	112
Sales rank:	658,150
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	5 - 11 Years

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 4

Foreword 5

Introduction 6

Part I Teaching Essentials

Chapter 1 Ten Qualities of Successful Lessons 11

Part II Before We Teach

Chapter 2 Lesson Structure: The Backbone of Our Teaching 29

Chapter 3 Lesson Planning: A Fresh Look 45

Part III As We Teach

Chapter 4 Lesson Facilitation: Deepening Students' Thinking

Chapter 5 Classroom Community: The Foundation of Successful Lessons 92

Appendix 109

References 111