Teachers: Planning a Necessity

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Teachers Planning a Necessity

• Planning and Implementing Effective Small-Group
  Activities

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Planning involves

• Being Diagnosticians
• putting children first
• knowing childrens skills
• Being Designers
• applying principles of child development
• Being Organizers
• analyzing resources materials
• goals objectives

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Effective Planning

• Being Evaluators
• Evaluation questions - Blooms taxonomy
• Written assessments
• Being Writers
• tangible records
• accountability purposes
• know why, what, and how

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Planning Basics

• Objectives
• Content
• Assumptions/ Prerequisite Skills
• Materials
• Procedures
• Strategies

• Extensions
• Simplifications
• Evaluation
• Hints for Success
• Closure/Review
• Reflection

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Teaching Strategies

• Ensuring sensory involvement
• Environmental Cues
• Task Analysis
• Scaffolding
• Guided Practice
• Modeling
• Questions
• Effective Praise

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More Strategies

• Behavior Paraphrase Reflections
• Telling/Explaining/Informing
• Do-It Signals
• Challenges
• Silence
• Other strategies???? Ideas??????

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Strategies that Promote Learning
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Cooperative Group Activity

• Define Exploratory Activities
• Give an example of Guided Discovery
• What are steps to Problem Solving?
• Characteristics of Good Discussions
• Expectations of Cooperative Learning
• Demonstrate Demonstrations
• How does Direct Instruction work?

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Writing a Lesson Plan

• Write plans in different domains aesthetic,
  affective, cognitive, language, physical, and
  social.
• Make objective, activity, and assessment are
  congruent to one another.
• Tailor your plans to meet the specific needs of
  students.
• Write as many details down as possible.

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Writing Lesson Plans

• As you get more experience, shorten lesson plans.
• Make sure plan is complete, including all
  components.
• Prepare to carry out your plan. Gather materials
  in advance.
• ALWAYS reflect on your plan-evaluate the
  effectiveness of the childrens learning.