Planning for Instruction

Is a detailed outline of what a particular teacher will teach throughout a course or year based on curriculum but adapted to the characteristics of the teacher, students, and teaching circumstances. 

• Course Plan
• Instructional Objectives
• Independent Practice
• Educational Standards

Related topics that are grouped and taught together over a period of time.

• Educational Standards
• Instructional Units
• Learning Activities
• Transitions 

Sometimes called instructional plans or teaching plans, are detailed outlines of what will be taught, how it will be taught, why it is being taught.

• Guided Practice
• Learning Activities
• Lesson Plan
• Independent Practice

Clear statements of what students will achieve as a result of a lesson that will be shown in an objective way

• Instructional Objectives
• Learning Activities
• Instructional Units
• Educational Standards

Second major component of a lesson plan

• Lesson Plan
• Instructional Objectives
• Transitions
• Learning Activities

Smooth ways to move from one part of the lesson to the next

• Transition
• Learning Activities
• Instructional Units
• Independent Practice

Activity designed to reinforce and apply learning that includes feedback from other students or the teacher

• Transitions
• Guided Practice
• Educational Standards
• Learning Activities

Personal activity outside of class, such as a homework assignment, that is designed to apply and reinforce recent learning that students complete on their own 

• Course Plan
• Instructional Units
• Independent Practice
• Learning Activities

Sometimes called Instructional Goals, are statements of what students are expected to know and be able to do at certain points in their education. 

• Learning Activities
• Lesson Plans
• Guided Practice
• Educational Standards