Describe the specific components or steps of an effective lesson plan.?

Answer 1

Lesson Planning Activity

Introduction: Lesson plans are written by teachers to help them structure the learning for themselves and for their students. As we have seen there is much to consider when developing a lesson plan to use in your classroom. Luckily, writing effective lesson plans is a skill that can be practiced and mastered.
The goal of this activity is to: gain a better sense of the type of content that you will be expected to teach, practice developing a lesson plan that you might actually use and gain some experience presenting a lesson that you have prepared.
The lesson plans you develop are to guide you in organizing your material and yourself for the purpose of helping your students achieve intended learning outcomes. Whether your lesson plan fits a particular format is not as relevant as whether or not it actually describes what you want to do(that is what you have determined is the best means to an end).

Directions:
1) Work individually or pair up with someone that is or will be teaching in your subject area (and preferably your grade level).
2) Follow the “scaffold” below.
3) You will ultimately develop a complete lesson plan and present the lesson that you have developed to the class.
Part I) What are the students going to learn about?

a) Decide on the subject area & grade level that you will be planning a lesson for.

c) Carefully survey the SCS (it is a bulky & often intimidating document). Next, decide on an (one) OBJECTIVE from the SCS (NOT a Competency Goal-these take days/weeks to cover well) to address with the lesson you are about to develop. Make a wise selection…it should be something you are relatively interested in & know a bit about.
d) Record this somewhere because you will need it in your lesson plan.
Part II) What will the students be able to do as a result of the lesson?

a) Write a clear and complete instructional objective for this lesson.
b) Record this somewhere because you will need it in your lesson plan

Below are two links that may be helpful:

http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/research/Write_Objectives.shtml

http://www.adprima.com/objectives.htm
Part III) What will you do as the teacher to help the students achieve the objective(s)?

a) Decide how to “best” teach that material. That is, what type of lesson will you be
presenting (i.e. a “Hunter” lesson, a discovery lesson, cooperative learning…)

Below are several sites that offer an overview of various types of lesson plans and instructional models:

http://www.huntington.edu/education/sholtrop/Plans.html

http://www.people.virginia.edu/~ehw2d/instructionalmodels.html

http://www.adprima.com/lesson.htm

b) This section should be a detailed description of what you will do and how you will
do it. In doing so, you will need to consider what teaching/instructional method(s)
you will employ. Perhaps more importantly, you should explain step by step what
you will do to present the content material in the “best” way. [Hint: one of the early
steps should be a way to assess your students’ prior knowledge/experience about the
topic]

Some additional resources:

http://www.adprima.com/teachmeth.htm (advantages/disadvantages of various methods)

http://inquiry.uiuc.edu/ ( a guide to inquiry-based teaching)

http://www.humboldt.edu/%7Etha1/hunter-eei.html ( a summary of Hunter’s model)

http://www.jigsaw.org/ ( a comprehensive guide to jig-saw activities)
Part IV) What will you do to see if the lesson was taught effectively?

a) Often overlooked, this section is crucial. Below is a site that describes the various
types of assessments and gives examples of each. Be sure to include a section in
your lesson plan that describes how you will assess the students’ learning.

http://images.rbs.org/assessment/index.shtml

In addition, your final lesson plan should include a materials section and a time budget.

Answer 2

a short teachers plan derived from scheme of work that guides in instructional objectives usually for double or single period(40 or 80 minutes)
Components are the same above FROM UNIVERSITY OF DODOMA TANZANIA

Answer 3

Introduction

How will you introduce the ideas and objectives of this lesson?
How will you get students' attention and motivate them in order to hold their attention?
How can you tie lesson objectives with student interests and past classroom activities?
What will be expected of students?

Main Activity

What is the focus of the lesson?
How would you describe the flow of the lesson to another teacher who will replicate it?
What does the teacher do to facilitate learning and manage the various activities?
What are some good and bad examples to illustrate what you are presenting to students?
How can this material be presented to ensure each student will benefit from the learning experience?


Closure/Conclusion

What will you use to draw the ideas together for students at the end?
How will you provide feedback to students to correct their misunderstandings and reinforce their learning?

Follow up Lessons/Activities

What activities might you suggest for enrichment and remediation?
What lessons might follow as a result of this lesson?

Assessment/Evaluation
This section focuses on ensuring that your students have arrived at their intended destination. You will need to gather some evidence that they did. This usually is done by gathering students' work and assessing this work using some kind of grading rubric that is based on lesson objectives. You could also replicate some of the activities practiced as part of the lesson, without providing the same level of guidance as during the lesson. You could always quiz students on various concepts and problems as well.

How will you evaluate the objectives that were identified?
Have students practiced what you are asking them to do for evaluation?

Answer 4

This is the format I had to use in college:
Title
Subject/grade level
State Standard
Objective(s)
Materials
Anticipatory Set (Something to getg kids excited)
Review Prior Knowledge
Topic Presentation
Modeling
Guided Practice
Opportunites to Relearn
Independent Practice
Assessment/Evaluation
(Enrichment)
(Accommodations)
Closure