Quality Instruction

Quality Instruction

The Path to Exemplary

Participants will:

• understand key components of a quality lesson plan

• understand the importance of using standards to guide lesson development

• understand the importance of aligning lesson objectives to the standards and instructional activities to the objectives

• understand the importance of providing relevant summative/formative activities

Test Your Current Knowledge

On the next few slides, you will have an opportunity to see how much you already know in terms of providing quality instruction. It will be fast-paced, so be sure to pay close attention and respond quickly. Good luck!

Multiple Choice

Given the following Standard: 4.L.1f Produce complete sentences, recognizing and correcting inappropriate fragments and run-ons, which objective best aligns?

• Distinguish a complete sentence from an incomplete one by putting adjectives in the correct order.

• Determine whether a group of words has a subject and a predicate.

• Understand how to use relative pronouns and relative adverbs.

Multiple Select

Select essential components of a lesson plan.

• date

• standard

• objective

• needed resources/materials

• summative/formative assessments

Multiple Choice

Based upon the provided standard (4.L.1f Produce complete sentences, recognizing and correcting inappropriate fragments and run-ons.), which of these is a good summative activity?

• Given a group of adjectives, have students to correctly order the words.

• Using premade sentence strips (some with only subjects and others with only predicates), have students to sort the strips accordingly, then connect the subjects to the corresponding predicate to form complete sentences. Then challenge them to create their own complete sentences.

• Have students to underline adjectives and circle pronouns in the provided sentences.

Open Ended

This standard was provided for a lesson plan from one of your ESL teachers, is there an issue? If so, what is it?