lesson planning

QUESTIONS TO ASK AND ANSWER WHEN GATHERING INFORMATION FOR LESSON PLANS For beginning lesson planners, the resources below will usually be sufficent to answer your questions. You will learn about additional resources in later courses. For further help, please contact clarke@geneseo.edu
WHO AM I TEACHING? Identify the cognitive, social, emotional, cultural, physical characteristics of your students (age, gender, family composition, cultural customs, learning styles, etc.) as these relate to teaching and learning	Characteristics of children and young adults and their relationship to learning and teaching may be found in the sources below: Online videos at the learner.org website of the Annenberg Foundation. Some recommended titles: Looking at Learning, Part 1 Looking at Learning, Part 2 The Learning Classroom: Theory into Practice Professional and scholarly books, DVDs and other media available in our library related to: learning disabilities inclusive education multicultural education in TERC elsewhere in Milne library (including ebooks) multiple intelligences More links to resources on minorities, at-risk students and other topics in education
WHAT DO I TEACH? Identify broad long-term curricular goals as well as specific shorter-term (lesson) objectives. Includes understandings, concepts, skills, facts, theories, attitudes that might be taught explicitly or implicitly, intentionally or unintentionally.	Curricular goals and objectives are usually based on state and national guidelines. National curricular guidelines: New York State: The New York State Education Department's *Core Curriculum* for each school subject identifies specific understandings, concepts and skills you might include in your objectives when writing lessons. The Core Curriculum provides specific detail on the broad curricular goals presented in the *Learning Standards* for each school subject.
HOW DO I TEACH?
WHAT METHODS DO I USE? Methods include teaching stategies, learning activities, evaluation/assessment of teaching and learning, classroom management (logistics of time, place, managing student behavior, etc.	METHODS Find these in: Some New York State Education Department publications. Teaching guides, teacher editions of K-12 textbooks, videos and other materials addressed to teachers. See Teaching Resources by Subject See Teaching Resources By Format \|Videos Especially see Annenberg online videos about teaching and assessment in specific subject areas See topics such as classroom management, assessment and more under Professional Issues .
WHAT MATERIALS DO I USE? Use a variety of classroom materials (textbooks, videos, games, cds, software, manipulatives, etc). to help you to reach students who learn in diverse ways.	MATERIALS: Textbooks, DVDs, CDs, manipulatives (puppets and other 3D items), charts, prints and other materials To find these: See Teaching Resources By Subject and Teaching Resources by Format on the TERC Home Page Children's and Young Adults' fiction and non-fiction books and magazines.
WHY DO I CHOOSE CERTAIN SOURCES OVER OTHERS to help me answer the questions above?	Sample evaluation criteria for ALL teacher and student materials: Accuracy of content Author credentials Publisher (give special attention to materials published by national teacher organizations such as the National Council of Teachers of English) Publication date Appropriateness of content and activities for pupils’ age and abilities
Author: Barbara Clarke, Associate Librarian, Head, Teacher Education Resource Center, Milne Library, SUNY Geneseo First online edition: 6/96; latest revision 2/2010