Task:
1. In a few sentences, summarize this lesson, identifying the central focus based on the content/skills you are teaching.
2. Describe the important classroom factors (demographics and environment) and student factors (IEPs, 504s, ELLs, non-labeled challenged students), and the impact of those factors on planning, teaching and assessing students to facilitate learning for all students.
3. Identify the relevant grade level standard(s), including the strand, cluster, and standard(s) by number and its text.
4. Identify the (1) opening of the lesson; (2) learning and teaching activities; and (3) closure that you can post as an agenda for the students that includes the approximate time for each segment.
5. Identify the process and how you will measure the progress toward mastery of learning target(s).
6. Describe the structures or ways of organizing language to serve a particular function within each subject area. What kinds of structures will you implement so that your students might demonstrate their depth of understanding?
7. List ALL materials, equipment and technology the teacher and students will use during the lesson. Add or attach copies of ALL printed and online materials at the end of this template. Be sure to address how you will teach the students to use the technology in Section II.
8. Identify grouping strategies that will support your students’ learning needs.
9. Identify how this lesson connects to previous lessons / learning (prior knowledge of students) and students’ lives.
10. Identify how this lesson is meaningful to the students and connects to their lives.
11. Describe methods of differentiation, including accommodation or differentiation strategies for academically, behaviorally and motivationally challenged students.
12. Include details of any summative assessment as applicable and attach a copy with an answer key. Explain how the summative assessment measures the learning target(s)/objectives. If you do not include a summative assessment, identify how you will measure students’ mastery of the learning target(s)/objectives.
13. Describe methods of differentiation for your summative assessment, including accommodation or differentiation strategies for academically, behaviorally and motivationally challenged students.
14. Explain how students will share what they have learned in the lesson. Identify questions that you can ask students to begin the closure conversation. Identify how students will confirm transfer of the learning target(s)/ objectives to application outside the classroom.
15. Clearly identify any homework tasks as appropriate. Elaborate whether the homework is drill- or skill-practice-based and explain how the homework assignment supports the learning targets / objectives. Attach any copies of homework.
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