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