Lesson Planning with Purpose: Five Approaches to Curriculum Design
Lesson Planning with Purpose: Five Approaches to Curriculum Design
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Overview
When teachers and students are both engaged in the educational enterprise, every day has the potential to be transformative. Lesson Planning with Purpose takes readers on a journey through many pathways to engaging and meaningful educational experiences. The text first discusses Perceptive Teaching: the belief that teachers must know themselves and their students while cultivating culturally sensitive, safe, and inviting spaces for learning for all students. Next, five unique approaches to lesson planning are explored: behaviorist, constructivist, aesthetic, ecological, and integrated social–emotional learning. Each chapter provides the rationale for the approach, its theoretical background, practical applications, and critiques and considerations. Chapters end with a sample lesson that can be compared across approaches.
Book Features:
- A comprehensive examination of multiple approaches to lesson planning.
- Guidance for teachers on when to choose various approaches, as well as how they might mix and match and blend ideas.
- User-friendly lesson plan templates, sample lessons, and discussion questions.
- An appendix with lesson plan examples written by practicing teachers across content areas and age groups.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780807778616 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Teachers College Press |
| Publication date: | 06/19/2020 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 1 MB |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Foreword Jacqueline Grennon Brooks xi
Preface xv
Acknowledgments xvii
1 Planning with Purpose 1
Curriculum Lens 2
Overview of the Five Approaches to Lesson Planning 3
General Tips to Make Each Approach Successful 4
Teachers as Artists 5
What Does It Mean to Plan with Purpose? 6
How to Use This Book 6
2 Perceptive Teaching: Who I Am and What I Do 8
Teaching is Never a Neutral Act 8
What is Culture? What is Multicultural Education? 9
What is Culturally Responsive Pedagogy? 11
Educational Psychologists' Contributions to Multiculturalism 11
Qualities of Perceptive Teaching 13
Who I Am: Open-Minded, Aware, Caring, Authentic 14
What I Do: Personalize the Experience, Teach the Whole Person, Teach with intention, Develop Autonomy 15
Discussion 24
Discussion Questions 25
3 The Behaviorist Approach to Lesson Planning: Skill Development 26
Rationale 26
Theoretical Background 27
Practical Application: Lesson Plan Formats 27
Learning Aims: Behavioral Objectives with ABCD Format 29
Assessment and Evaluation 32
Classroom Interactions and Roles 32
Lesson Plan Comparison: The Behaviorist Approach to Teaching Metaphor 32
Critiques and Considerations 33
Discussion Questions 36
4 The Constructivist Approach to Lesson Planning: Individualized Meaning Making 37
Rationale 37
Theoretical Background 37
Practical Application: Lesson Plan Formats 39
Learning Aims: Emergent Understandings 39
Assessment and Evaluation 42
Classroom Interactions and Roles 44
Lesson Plan Comparison: The Constructivist Approach to Teaching Metaphor 45
Critiques and Considerations 45
Discussion Questions 48
5 The Aesthetic Approach to Lesson Planning: Sensory-Rich, Memorable Experiences 49
Rationale 49
Theoretical Background 50
Practical Application: Lesson Plan Formats 54
Learning Aims: Expressive Objectives 55
Assessment and Evaluation (Critique): Evaluate, Assess, Reflect 60
Classroom Interactions and Roles 60
Lesson Plan Comparison: The Aesthetic Approach to Teaching Metaphor 60
Critiques and Considerations 61
Discussion Questions 65
6 The Ecological Approach to Lesson Planning:
Real-World Relevance and Connections 66
Rationale 67
Theoretical Background 67
Ecomindedness and Place-Based Curriculum Together 69
Practical Application: Lesson Plan Formats 70
Learning Aims: Experience-Based Objectives (EBOs) 70
Lesson Plan Examples 72
Assessment and Evaluation 80
Classroom interactions and Roles 83
Lesson Plan Comparison: The Ecological Approach to leaching Metaphor 83
Critiques and Considerations 86
Discussion Questions 87
7 The Integrated Social-Emotional Learning Approach to Lesson Planning: Relationship Building and Holistic Development 88
Rationale 90
Theoretical Background 90
Practical Application: Lesson Plan Formats 92
Learning Aims: Integrated Social-Emotional & Individual SEL Objectives 93
Assessment and Evaluation 97
Classroom Interactions and Roles 99
Lesson Plan Comparison: The integrated Social-Emotional Learning Approach to Teaching Metaphor 99
Critiques and Considerations 102
Discussion Questions 103
8 Planning with Purpose Summary and Extensions 104
The Five Approaches to Lesson Planning 104
Pacing Attention to Context: Perceptive Teaching 106
Blending Approaches 107
Another Word on Lesson Planning 108
Unit Planning 108
Unit Plans Using a Single Approach 111
Bringing it all Together 113
Appendix A Behaviorist Lesson Plan Template and Examples 115
Appendix B Constructivist Lesson Plan Template and Examples 124
Appendix C Aesthetic Lesson Plan Template and Examples 132
Appendix D Ecological Lesson Plan Templates (Ecomindedness and Place-Based) and Examples 145
Appendix E Integrated Social-Emotional Learning (ISEL) Lesson Plan Template and Examples 159
References 170
Index 179
About the Authors 189
What People are Saying About This
“Analyzing pedagogies, trying out approaches aligned with them, and assessing student response and performance are parts of the process of becoming a perceptive, growth-forward teacher. McConnell, Conrad, and Uhrmacher raise and address these components of teacher lesson planning practices that serve the development of both teachers and students. They encourage teachers to unleash their own unique creativity, and they support them with templates for launching purposeful lesson planning that, in turn, serves to foster and extend the creative energies of students.”—From the Foreword by Jacqueline Grennon Brooks, Hofstra University
“Finally, a book that approaches lesson planning with the complexity it deserves! McConnell, Conrad, and Uhrmacher’s five-approach exploration of curriculum design is one of the most nuanced and thoughtful works on curriculum I’ve seen to date. This book treats teachers as at once artists and intellectuals, curious and thoughtful, masters of their craft and eternal learners. As a result, readers will no doubt wrest lesson planning from the technocrats’ hold and return the wild and wonderful to education.”—Joel Westheimer, University of Ottawa