Lesson Planner

In your lesson plan you specify all of the instructional events that fill in and flesh out your instructional design. Your lesson plan will give you a day-to-day snapshot of what will happen in the classroom.

How to Use the Planner: For each of the steps below, click into the shaded box under each step to enter your own lesson plan. The box will expand to accommodate your entry. Save and print the completed lesson plan when you are done.

Describe how you will prepare the students for the lesson. Answer these questions:

• Have any of the characteristics previously recognized changed?

• Do any assumptions about learners need to be corrected?

• What techniques will you use to gauge entry skills?

State the instructional design objective that will be addressed by this lesson. Answer these questions:

• Which of the design’s objectives does this lesson relate to?

• How, if at all, does this lesson relate to the other design objectives?

Describe what you need to do to prepare for the lesson. Answer these questions:

• What needs to be done in the classroom to get it ready?

• What must be accomplished for each step of the pedagogical cycle? List each step of the cycle and how will it be accomplished.

• What materials, media, and technologies are needed and how will they be used?

• What needs to be done to implement the intended assessments?

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