Focused Lesson Planning
Helping Teachers Examine and Develop Their Own Mindset
1st Edition
Published on 17. July 2023
1 pages
979-8-216-22360-3 (ISBN)
Description
This book shows teachers how to plan units and lessons in a highly focused and effective way. Readers are introduced to a professional planning strategy that is lean and timesaving, without wasting energy on side issues. This approach takes as its starting point the students and the outcomes they need to achieve and focuses the entire planning process on making sure students will be successful. With this backward approach, all planning steps are focused on the goal of learning success, keeping teachers from overplanning, underplanning, or misplanning. The book highlights the importance of tasks as planning tools for teachers. Well-set tasks reveal the teacher's intentions and the content to be learned, and they show students what will be assessed and how. How to develop and apply planning around meaningful tasks is a key focus.
Thanks to numerous suggestions for learning activities, this book is suitable for independent work through,but it can also be used with profit by teacher educators and cooperating teachers.
Thanks to numerous suggestions for learning activities, this book is suitable for independent work through,but it can also be used with profit by teacher educators and cooperating teachers.
More details
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
11 b/w illustrations; 6 tables; 24 textboxes
ISBN-13
979-8-216-22360-3 (9798216223603)
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Schweitzer Classification
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Book
07/2023
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
€30.90
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Person
Urban Fraefel is Professor at the School of Education Northwestern Switzerland and book author. His teaching, research, and development activities focus on teaching and learning, core practices, practice-based teacher education, and university-school partnerships.
Content
Foreword
Preface
Chapter 1: The approach in brief
Chapter 2: The primacy of impact and the wisdom of practitioners
Chapter 3: Rethinking conventions of lesson planning
Chapter 4: The key principle of planning units "backward"
Chapter 5: Planning a unit
Chapter 6: Planning a lesson "backward"
Chapter 7: Planning lessons by and with student teachers
Chapter 8: What goals for units? What expected results? What tasks?
Chapter 9: From unit to lesson: Two goals per lesson, and assessment
Chapter 10: More on assessment
Epilogue: What is the plan?
References
Preface
Chapter 1: The approach in brief
Chapter 2: The primacy of impact and the wisdom of practitioners
Chapter 3: Rethinking conventions of lesson planning
Chapter 4: The key principle of planning units "backward"
Chapter 5: Planning a unit
Chapter 6: Planning a lesson "backward"
Chapter 7: Planning lessons by and with student teachers
Chapter 8: What goals for units? What expected results? What tasks?
Chapter 9: From unit to lesson: Two goals per lesson, and assessment
Chapter 10: More on assessment
Epilogue: What is the plan?
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