What Every Teacher Should Know About Instructional Planning

by Donna E. Walker Tileston

Overview

The essential guide to lesson planning in the standards-based classroom!

Use this clear-sighted guide to keep your focus on what your students need to know and be able to do. Based on state-of-the-art research, this guide will take you from pre-planning through reflection, evidence of learning, and teaching for transfer to real-life situations. Topics include:

• Pre-planning tools and backward design
• Using standards
• Building effective declarative objectives
• Designing behavioral objectives
• Helping students organize and store knowledge
• Evidence of learning: Do they understand? Can they use the information?          
• Planning meaningful learning experiences
• Building connections between old and new knowledge
• Putting lesson planning into practice
• Specific parts of the lesson
• Declarative knowledge, procedural knowledge, and reflection
• Building a model for lesson planning
• Vocabulary pre-test, post-test, and summary
• Bibliography and Index

 

 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781483360232
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	10/30/2003
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	128
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Donna Walker Tileston is a veteran teacher and administrator. She is currently the president of Strategic Teaching and Learning, a consulting firm that provides services to schools throughout the United States and worldwide. Donna’s publications include Ten Best Teaching Practices: How Brain Research, Learning Styles, and Standards Define Teaching Competencies (2000), which has been on Corwin′s bestseller list since its first year in print, in addition to the ten-volume award-winning series What Every Teacher Should Know, now in its second edition. Other recent titles are Teaching Strategies for Active Learning (2006), Teaching Strategies that Prepare Students for High Stakes Tests (2008), and Closing the Poverty and Culture Gap (2009). Donna received her BA from the University of North Texas, her MA from East Texas State University, and her EdD from Texas A&M University-Commerce. She may be reached at www.whateveryteachershouldknow.com

Table of Contents

About the Author
Introduction
Vocabulary Pre-Test
1. The Principles of Instructional Planning
2. Using Standards as a Guide
3. What do Students Need to Know About Declarative Knowledge?
4. What Should Students be Able to do With the Knowledge?
5. Where is the Evidence of Learning?
6. How do We Plan Meaningful Learning Experiences?
7. Putting Planning into Practice
8. Building a Model for Lesson Planning
Glossary
Vocabulary Post-Test
Bibliography
Index