Teachers plan using the Virginia Standards of Learning, the school’s curriculum,
effective strategies, resources, and data to meet the needs of all students.
– Virginia Department of Education
Lesson plans should be full of instructional methods geared towards students of all learning abilities. Teachers should not only focus on what student strengths are, but focusing on strengthening the weaknesses as well. In doing this, lesson plans can become more and more tailored to student needs and keep the lessons engaging and effective for all of the students.
Following school and/or state mandated standards can serve as a starting point in creating goals for the teacher and the students, and also contribute to effective, engaging, thought-provoking lesson plans that increase student participation, retention, understanding, and the start of higher level thinking.
Click the image or here for to see how I make sure to incorporate Blooms taxonomy, differentiation, multiple intelligences, and Virginia Standards of Learning into my lesson plans.
There are various methods to ensure effective instructional planning; however, three critical aspects take precedence. Without the continuing assessment of student achievement, tailoring instruction for all students, and creating lesson plans that include goals and school and/or state standards for the curriculum, the standard of instructional planning cannot be achieved effectively.
Click here to see a fully created formatted lesson plan about inventions during the Renaissance where students will create their own inventions that could have been created during the same time period.
Click the following links to see foldables that students created in Civics for the units of the U.S. Constitution, Constitutional Rights of the Accused, and landmark Supreme Court cases. These foldables served as a more hands on method for students to learn the material.