What Every Teacher Should Know about Instructional Planning

by Donna E Walker Tileston

The essential guide to lesson planning in the standards-based classroom!Use this clear-sighted guide to keep your focus on what your students need to know and be able to do. Based on state-of-the-art research, this guide will take you from pre-planning through reflection, evidence of learning, and teaching for transfer to real-life situations. Topics Pre-planning tools and backward designUsing standardsBuilding effective declarative objectivesDesigning behavioral objectivesHelping students organize and store knowledgeEvidence of Do they understand? Can they use the information?Planning meaningful learning experiencesBuilding connections between old and new knowledgePutting lesson planning into practiceSpecific parts of the lessonDeclarative knowledge, procedural knowledge, and reflectionBuilding a model for lesson planningVocabulary pre-test, post-test, and summaryBibliography and Index

128 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 30, 2003

Reviews

[Ellen · Rating 4 out of 5]

What Every Teacher Should Know about Instructional Planning by Donna E. Walker Tileston is a concisely written summary of current pedagogical theory and application in the area of instructional planning. It has a useful vocabulary summary at the end, some helpful graphic organizers and an excellent overview of what good planning consists of-how it looks, what makes it good, and how to talk about it. I borrowed the book from the library: half-way through, I ordered it. It's a good little guide to keep handy.

It's a good introduction to instructional planning but perhaps more useful if someone is already at least somewhat familiar with the language and practice described. I think it is most useful as a tool to continue reviewing good practice, a kind of friend with whom to check in from time to time.