Planning Effective Lessons: An Overview of Lesson Planning

Scholar Training Project for Southwest Jiaotong University

July 30, 2013

105 ITLE

Quotes cont.

• “Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.”

- Josef Albers

• Effective Teaching: A constant stream of professional decisions made before, during and after interactions with students which, when implemented, increase the probability of learning.

Planning for Instruction

Tyler’s Four Questions

Mager’s Rules for Writing Measurable Objectives

Bloom’s Taxonomy

Tyler’s Four Questions

• What is the purpose of the lesson?

• What experiences are needed to accomplish the purpose?

• How do the experiences need to be organized for meaningful learning to occur?

• What evidence exists that learning occurred?

Bloom’s Taxonomy

• Six domains of learning

• Each level increases in rigor

• Lower-order thinking skills to higher-order thinking skills

Knowledge Compre-hension

Application Analysis Synthesis Evaluation

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

K C A A S E

LEVELS

DEPTH

Mager’s Rules for Writing Measurable Objectives

1. Identify and name the student behavior sought.

2. Define any important conditions under which the behavior is to occur.

3. Define a level of acceptable performance.• Specify the BEHAVIOR, CONDITION, and

DEGREE of acceptable criteria for the performance anticipated.

Lesson Planning: An Introduction

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

- Alan Lakein

5 Ps of Success

• Proper

• Planning

• Prevents

• Poor

• Performance

Four Basic Parts of a Lesson Plan

1. Preparation – How will you prepare the students for the lesson?

2. Presentation – What key concepts will you teach students?

3. Application – What will students do with the material they learned?

4. Evaluation – How will you ensure that your objectives were accomplished?

Let’s begin!

• Choose any lesson topic that you teach in your discipline

• Write three objectives for that lesson

• Make the objectives as simple or complex as you wish; however, be sure to apply Mager’s rules

• Brainstorm how you will plan to include the four parts of the lesson plan

Lesson Presentations

• Design a lesson in your discipline.

• Develop a lesson plan using the OSU Lesson Plan template.

• Deliver a 20 minute lesson to your peers on Aug. 7 and 8.

• Half of the group will present Aug. 7, and the other half will present Aug. 8.