Beginning of Lesson "I Do"

Principle 3: DATA-INFORMED INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICES

Lesson Design

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Rationale: When a new concept is introduced, a teacher should use direct instruction and scaffolding of essential content and skills. When a teacher models a skill and demonstrates the thinking and decision making necessary to achieve or complete the task, students will have a clearer picture of what proficiency looks like.

Description: I DO - Ask questions to identify prior knowledge, make links between previously learned and new learning, engage in a simulation, watch a demonstration, read, short video, lecture. Clearly demonstrate the process or product that students are expected to acquire or produce, use both modeling and/or models to explicitly show and tell the what and how of the task.

Resource:

Marzano, R. J. (2007). The Art and Science of Teaching. Alexandria, VA: ASCD.

Archer, Anita L. Explicit Instruction: Effective and Efficient Teaching. New York: Guilford Press, 2011.

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