Great Lesson Design = Greater Student Learning
How to Design Great Lessons based on the work of
 Dr. Bob Kizlik and Madeline Hunter

The Goal of this Professional Development is to revive your already fantastic lesson design planning skills so as to optimize your instruction and student learning.  Remember to focus on student learning instead of teaching.

According to Kentucky's Teacher Standard 3, we are to design and plan instruction.

STANDARD 3:

Designs/Plans Instruction

The teacher designs/plans instruction that develops student abilities to use communication skills, apply core concepts, become self-sufficient individuals, become responsible team members, think and solve problems, and integrate knowledge.

PERFORMANCE CRITERIA:

The extent to which the teacher:

• 3.1.  Focuses instruction on one or more of Kentucky's learning goals and academic expectations.
• 3.2.  Develops instruction that requires students to apply knowledge, skills, and thinking processes.
• 3.3.  Integrates skills, thinking processes, and content across disciplines.
• 3.4.  Creates and utilizes learning experiences that challenge, motivate and actively involve the learner.
• 3.5.  Creates and uses learning experiences that are developmentally appropriate for learners.
• 3.6.  Develops and incorporates strategies that address physical, social, and cultural and that show sensitivity to differences.
• 3.7.  Arranges the physical classroom to support the types of teaching and learning that are to occur.
• 3.8.  Includes creative and appropriate use of technologies (e.g., audiovisual equipment, computers, lab equipment, etc.) to improve student learning.
• 3.9.  Develops and implements appropriate assessment processes.
• 3.10. Secures and uses a variety of appropriate school and community resources to support learning.
• 3.11. Develops and incorporates learning experiences that encourage students to be adaptable, flexible, resourceful, and creative.
• 3.12. Uses knowledge acquired from past teaching experiences to anticipate instructional challenges.

To view other Kentucky Teacher Standards, click here.

Why Design & Plan Lessons?

Your lesson design and plan serves many purposes:

1. Mainly to organize yourself in order to teach ~ keeps you focused on the standards and outcomes each day
2. To serve as documentation for your administrators to supervise the necessary teaching of core content
3. To serve as documentation for implementing the Consolidated School Improvement Plan (law says we must do what the plan says!)

Lesson Plans Can Be Considered Quality Assurance for Instruction if They are Implemented
 

1. the Core Content, Program of Studies and Academic Expectations that you are teaching, 

2. the objectives and outcomes for the standards 

3. quality of instruction (DOK, Rigor, Relevance, learning styles, etc)

4. quantity of instruction (time on task)

5.  how you assess your students’ learning (formative and summative).

Our lesson plans should come from Standards Based Units of Study!  It is ideal to write your units first and then plan how your students are going to master the standards.

How to Write Great Lesson Plans
From Dr. Bob Kizlik and Madeline Hunter

Thoroughly browse each section of the web site below to obtain the following information:

ADPRIMA Toward the Best

• Five Mistakes in Writing Lesson Plans

• How to Avoid These Five Mistakes

• A Different, Yet Effective Approach to Writing Lesson Plans

• How to Write Objectives (verbs) for each Content Area

• The Madeline Hunter Lesson Design

Typical Teaching Outline

Teaching Method Resources

150 Teaching Methods

Online Lesson Plan Collections ! 
Modify these to suit your instruction

Online Lesson Plans for Most Content Areas

Standards Based Units of Study

What Now?

Lesson "Components"