Planning
Nyree Wilson - Learning Specialist
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Planning Lesson Routines
- Planning lessons for a unit of learning
Planning for questioning to promote engagement, thinking and collaboration
What is direct instruction?
Where do we see direct instruction?
Top tips for ensuring teacher clarity in the way we plan for and provide instructions
Planning Lesson Routines
Planning Lesson Routines
This template helps to create lesson routines and can reduce the amount of time you use for planning as you become more familiar with the strategy. The basic principle is that students learn a bit, then do a bit.
The length and duration of activities in a lesson may vary, depending on what the learning aims are.
Using a similar structure for each lesson helps students focus on the skills and knowledge of their subject learning, instead of spending energy trying to work out new ways information is presented each lesson.
Planning lessons for a unit of learning
Planning lessons for a unit of learning
A suggested tool for collaboratively or individually planning a sequence of lessons to support a unit of work.
You can access a blank template of this planner HERE. Go to 'file' and 'make a copy' if you would like to use and edit this document.
Effective_Questioning&Talk.pdfPlanning for questioning to promote engagement, thinking and collaboration
Planning for questioning to promote engagement, thinking and collaboration
Explore the different uses of questioning, the strategies we can use and the importance of wait time and consider how to build this into the planning of your lesson routines.
What is direct instruction?
What is direct instruction?
It is the way we help set students’ up to undertake student focused work time - as independent or collaborative learning activities.
It is also:
The way we set up a lesson to create student focused work time.
The introduction we make to a lesson – how we ‘hook’ students in to the learning, and how we set up the learning intention or key learning that we want students to take away.
The way in which we model how the activity can be approached.
Where do we see direct instruction?
Where do we see direct instruction?
In phase 1 of the lesson – ‘the introduction into the learning’.
And, phase 2 – ‘explicit teaching and instruction’.
During phase 3 – student focused work time, we may also need to provide additional instruction or modelling to address students’ misunderstanding or the task, or to help them refocus on the key learning, or learning intention that we are working on.
Top tips for ensuring teacher clarity in the way we plan for and provide instructions
Top tips for ensuring teacher clarity in the way we plan for and provide instructions
When relying on verbal instructions, students may miss part or all of what you are saying if there are distractions and background noise – this is common in our context.
Provide instructions in written form, and verbally – where possible, include visual cues and body language.
Keep instructions as simple as possible, focus on key words and steps.
Provide students with a clear indication of the time they have for a task – and provide time checks or reminders while they are working.
Give EAL students time to translate instructions or learning intentions into their preferred language to ensure understanding about the lesson’s purpose and the activities they are expected to participate in.
Encourage students to ask clarifying questions about the task, and to check that they have understood the instructions.
Where possible, model or provide a think-aloud to demonstrate how a learning activity can be approached.
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