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

by Janice Skowron, Charlotte Danielson (Foreword by)

Overview

• Guide to teaching and creating lesson plans
• Covers four types of instructional design
• Useful for teachers with all levels of experience 

Have you ever wondered how to maximize your lesson plans? Do you want to get the most out of every minute that you teach? Powerful Lesson Planning: Every Teacher’s Guide to Effective Instruction will help you accomplish those goals. This book includes summaries of basic instructional design, integrated instructional design, differentiated instructional design, and problem-based learning instructional design. It shares different teaching strategies and is especially helpful for beginner teachers. 

This guide emphasizes the decisions that teachers make as they plan lessons and classes. It includes descriptive information, tools, and several examples to help every teacher make their lesson plans well.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781634503532
Publisher:	Skyhorse
Publication date:	09/15/2015
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 10.90(h) x 0.60(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