Lesson Planning in Backwards Planning

DO NOW 1) Divide into two groups.

One group will make a list of 10-15 answers to this question: What inspires student engagement? Once engaged, what helps maintain student engagement?

The other group will make a list of 10-15 answers to this question: When is student learning most effective? Under what conditions are students most effectively learning and producing high quality work?

“Backwards Planning” (UbD)

Select learning goalsWhat do you want students to learn by the end of the lesson or unit?

Design assessment tasksHow will students demonstrate their developing mastery of those goals?

Develop lesson activitiesHow will you prepare students to master the goals and

succeed on the assessment task?

Constraints Intermediate Goals

The Logic of Backward Design

Stage 1 Stage 2 Stage 3

If the desired result is for learners to…

Then you need evidence of the student’s ability to…

And the learning activities need to…

-Wiggins & McTighe. Understanding by Design.

Instructional Planning

WHERETO (Wiggins & McTighe, p. 197) W—students understand WHERE the unit is headed, and WHY

H—HOOK students in the beginning and HOLD their attention throughout.

E—EQUIP students with necessary experiences, content knowledge, and skills needed to meet your goals.

R—provide opportunities for students to RETHINK, REFLECT, and REVISE

E—Build in opportunities for students to EVALUATE through self-assessment.

T—TAILOR to reflect diverse learning styles, interests, and skill sets,

O—Be ORGANIZED so that time is used wisely and purposefully.

Core Components and Organization of a Well-Organized Lesson Plan:

The HookExplorationConnection [Scaffolding]Practice/ApplicationSummary [Closure; review and

preview]

Throughout: Assessment

Core Components and Organization of a Well-Organized Lesson Plan:

The Hook

The HOOK: Connect to current events Connect to students’ lives Do something totally out of the blue that

creates bemused confusion Enable students to show off their prior

knowledge and/or skills Trick students into revealing their ignorance Get kids angry Turn the tables Be consistent Change things up…

Core Components and Organization of a Well-Organized Lesson Plan:

The HookExplorationConnection [Scaffolding]Practice/Application

Exploration/Connection/ Practice/Application:

Always — Scaffold Help students construct meaning and

purpose – and attend to the meanings/ purposes they construct!

Plan multiple routes into material

If teaching a new skill —1. Model

2. Guided practice

3. Independent practice

TSWBAT (aka Objectives)

Clear, concrete, and manageable

An Example:

By the end of class today, TSWBAT Create a lesson plan using the various

components of lesson planning presented

Adjust provided lesson plan templates to their own liking and style

Create clear, concrete, and manageable objectives to guide their lesson plans

Creating objectives

Goal: Students will be able to

explain various perspectives on the cause of the Civil War.

Students can take a stance on the “true cause” of the Civil War and articulate an argument to support their stance.

Goal: Students will be able to

explain what makes a civilization.

Using their knowledge of the components of a civilization, students will be able to analyze whether given historical groups are actually civilizations and create their own mythical civilization.