This course will enable a teacher to prepare for what they want their students to learn in a lesson and how they want them to learn that material. It also helps a teacher communicate how the lesson will help the students in real life as much as it will help them in class.
About the Course: Thank you for embarking on this journey. This course falls under the category Classroom Instruction. This course has 5 sections. It is meant for beginning teachers who want to learn the basics of lesson planning. This course will teach you to create a course vision which serves as a bedrock upon which an excellent lesson is built. In order to learn the skill of lesson planning in complete detail, please ensure that ‘Lesson Planning II’ is the next course you take after this.
Standards
This course meets the following standards:
- Teaching As Leadership Standards
a. P-1 Create or obtain standards- aligned diagnostic, formative and summative assessments (with tracking and grading systems) to determine where students are against big goals
b. P-3 Create rigorous, objective-driven lesson plans so that students who complete class activities successfully will have mastered the objectives and made progress toward the big goals
CENTA Standards:
a. CD.3.2a: Ability to create a lesson plan/ text book chapter considering the learning objective and the classroom context.