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Powerful Lesson Planning

Every Teacher’s Guide to Effective Instruction

Second Edition
By: Janice Skowron, Corwin Press, Inc.

Foreword by Charlotte Danielson

Revitalize your current practices, expand your repertoire of approaches, and improve learning for students!

This jump-start of a book offers novice and experienced teachers step-by-step, essential guidance in the challenging task of lesson planning. It provides four progressively more complex and nuanced models: basic, integrated, differentiated, and problem-based instruction. This revised edition helps teachers:

Incorporate the best practices for lesson planning
Build and perfect the lesson-planning skills and repertoire of new teachers
Revitalize instruction for veteran teachers
Strengthen teachers' abilities to plan standards-based lessons
Focus on assessment in the initial phases of lesson planning

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Grade Level: PreK-12
ISBN: 9781412937313
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2006
Page Count: 176
Publication date: April 28, 2006

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"Powerful Lesson Planning is an important book, offering essential guidance in the highly complex task of lesson planning. 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

Revitalize your current practices, expand your repertoire of approaches, and improve learning for students!

Every teacher's goal is to create a rich instructional environment for their students, and thoughtful, informed lesson planning is a key element in that process. Janice Skowron's jump-start of a book offers novice and experienced teachers step-by-step, essential guidance in this challenging and oftentimes highly complex task. It brings into focus the decisions teachers face as they plan instruction and provides four progressively complex and nuanced models: basic, integrated, differentiated, and problem-based instruction. Descriptive information, numerous examples, and tools such as key questions, planning guides, and templates help educators develop proficiency in planning instruction.

This revised edition will:

Help teachers incorporate the best practices for lesson planning
Build the lesson-planning skills and repertoire of new teachers
Revitalize instruction for veteran teachers
Strengthen teachers' abilities to plan standards-based lessons
Help teachers focus on assessment in the initial phases of lesson planning

Powerful Lesson Planning will increase teachers' competence and confidence--and help them master the skills needed to advance their practice and improve learning for all students.

Author(s)

Janice Skowron

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.

Corwin Press, Inc.

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

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"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

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