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The Instructional Planning Process -
Many Models, Many Choices
Since this site is designed specifically to support my courses, most of the plans herein are secondary or are from clinical practice in Communicative Disorders as these majors represent the bulk of my undergraduate student population. Lessons in this section include numerous prototypes of plans formulated using only the following models:
Current Index of Lesson Plans
Lesson Plans The lesson plans in this portion of my website are related to a number of instructional concepts presented in my undergraduate course on educational psychology -- ED381. They are also related to parent concepts from my graduate courses in curriculum, newer views of learning and teaching, models of teaching and learning, and creativity.
Browsers can find appropriate links back to many related course concepts in annotations at the end of each plan. These plans have been generously donated by students from my sections of ED381 and are meant to be used as planning prototypes for my undergraduate and graduate students, or by other interested browsers. If you use ideas presented in the plans, please give appropriate credit to the original writer. Each plan falls into one of the eight categories listed above.
Combination Model - Plans using more than one of the above.
Graffiti Model - Graffiti is a cooperative learning structure in which students are asked to give written responses to questions posed by the teacher. The graffiti model is an excellent way to check for understanding, to evaluate instruction, or to do an informal pre-assessment. See Details
Holistic Learning Model - These plans reflect varied modalities and learning domains -- cognitive [thinking], affective [feeling], and psychomotor or physical [digital, haptic, tactile, kinesthetic].
Hunter Model - A highly structured format for plans devised using the classic, repetitive lesson model developed by the late Madeline Hunter.
Jigsaw Model - Originally, the jigsaw concept was developed in the 1960's to facilitate racial integration as students were required to work collaboratively on projects. As an educational model it falls into the Social Family of methods. There are several variations of this model -- more samples will be forthcoming. Link - to the 'Official" Jigsaw Site.
Learning Styles Model - These plans are devised and written reflecting concepts developed by Kathleen Butler. Butler's work is based on learning style categorizations developed by Anthony Gregorc -- concrete sequential, abstract sequential, concrete random, and abstract random personality and learning styles.Multiple Intelligences - MI plans utilize, or are based on, those intelligences described in the work of Howard Gardner.
Problem Solving Model - These plans reflect general rules for developing skills used in solving problems. In this process the teacher develops a problem; carefully accesses skills needed to solve the problem; and creates conditions and/or parameters that act as guidelines for products or solutions. These same conditions and parameters also serve as evaluation and assessment criteria.
General Lesson Plan Guidelines:
There are some general rules used to develop lesson plans that might be helpful to know:
- Plans must be formulated so that they reflect the specific learning intentions of the teacher in regard to the cognitive, affective, or physical growth of students.
- Plans should be developmentally appropriate.
- In an age where standards are becoming increasingly important, teachers should be able to relate individual lessons, learning intentions and/or lesson objectives back to some general district aims and related goals, or to state or national standard.
- Plans should be easy to follow and learning objectives should be clearly stated.
- Plans should be easily understood by readers other than the developer.
There are numerous links throughout this site which will help with curriculum planning. Please see the curriculum index pages for general help and assistance.
Links to other websites with lesson plans.
IF YOU USE THESE, PLEASE CITE ORIGINAL SOURCE.
Global Environmental Teaching (GET) - Wisconsin Center for Environmental Education has been engaged in the GET Program to establish links with educators in Puerto Rico, Mexico, South Africa and China. Teachers involved in these program are required to submit lessons plans.
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