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Get a Handle on Lesson Plans
Here’s how:
Have teachers put a copy of each week’s plans in an office folder.
Make 8.5x11 “stationery” that leaves you a little space at the
top for your note.
Dear Bill,
Thank you for your lesson plans.
Looks like a coherent fit between your learning target (understand and
apply elements of good nutrition) and the Family Diet activity. Student
logs should generate interesting class discussion around the elements.
Sample of student thinking levels for assessment—FYI
Carole
Reminder notes should go out as well.
Dear Bob,
Sorry I missed seeing your plans for this week. Please put another copy in my mailbox.
Sample of student thinking levels for assessment—FYI
Carole
Type or copy quick-read professional information that can be used for lesson planning. Here’s one to encourage higher-order thinking:
“How Far Does Your Thinking Go?”
Stage 6 SYNTHESIS:
Re-form individual parts to make a new whole. This happens when you compose, design, invent, create, hypothesize, construct, forecast, rearrange parts, or imaging. Shown in plans, songs, poems, stories, ads, inventions, etc.
Stage 5 EVALUATION:
Judge the value of something by way of criteria and support judgment. This happens when you judge, evaluate, give an opinion or viewpoint, prioritize, recommend, or critique. Shown in decisions, ratings, grades using rubrics, editorials, debates, or critiques.
Stage 4 ANALYSIS:
Understand how parts relate to a whole, understand structure and motive, detect fallacies. This happens when you investigate, classify, categorize, compare, contrast, or solve.
Stage 3 APPLICATION:
Transfer knowledge learned in one situation to another. This happens when you demonstrate, use guides or maps or charts, build, cook, etc. Shown in recipes, models, artwork, demonstrations, crafts.
Stage 2 COMPREHENSION:
Demonstrate basic understanding of concepts and curriculum and put it into other words. This happens when you restate, give examples, explain, summarize, translate, show symbols, or edit. Shown in drawings, diagrams, responses to questions, or revisions.
Stage 1 KNOWLEDGE:
Remember something previously learned. This happens when you tell, recite, list, memorize, remember, define, or locate information. Shown in workbook pages, vocabulary, quizzes, or tests.
Adapted from Bloom’s Taxonomy in Susan Winebrenner’s book, Teaching Gifted Kids in the Regular Classroom (Minneapolis, MN: Free Spirit Publishing, 2001)
