6 POINT LESSON PLAN

 

Focus & Review

 

Four Possible Functions:

 

·        Focus the learner’s attention

 

·        Relate previous learning

 

·        Diagnose prerequisite skills

 

·        Give reasons why lesson is important

 

Teacher Input

 

·        Teaching--what the teacher does (Presentation of Learning Activities)

 

·        Input has many forms:  lecture, demonstration, role play, field trip

 

·        Input includes:  checking for understanding monitoring and adjusting

 

Guided Practice

 

·        Close monitoring of all students’ first attempts at new learning

 

·        Prevents students from practicing errors

 

Independent Practice

 

·        Practice new learning alone

 

·        Internalize new skills

 

·        Acquire speed and fluency

 

Closure

 

·        Encapsulates lesson being taught

 

·        Summarizes major concepts

 

·        Allows learning to be expanded with later lessons, or recalled for application