COE LESSON PLAN TEMPLATE
Teacher Candidate:
Grade Level:
Date:
Unit/Subject:
Instructional Plan Title
I. Planning
Lesson Summary and Focus:
In a few sentences, summarize this lesson, identifying the central focus based on the content/skills you are teaching.
Classroom and Student Factors:
Describe the important classroom factors (demographics and environment) and student factors (IEPs, 504s, ELLs, non-labeled challenged students), and the effect of those factors on planning, teaching, and assessing students to facilitate learning for all students.
National/State Learning Standards
Identify the relevant grade level standard(s), including the strand, cluster, and standard(s) by number and text.
Specific Learning Target(s)/Objectives
Specify what the students will be able to do after the standards-based lesson.
Teaching Notes
Clarify where this lesson falls within a unit of study.
Agenda
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.
Formative Assessment
Identify the process and how you will measure the progress toward mastery of learning target(s).
Academic Language
Key vocabulary
Include the content-specific terms you need to teach and how you will teach students that vocabulary in the lesson.
Function
Clarify the purpose the language is intended to achieve within each subject area. Functions often consist of the verbs found in the standards and learning goal statements. How will your students demonstrate their understanding?
Form
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?
Instructional Materials, Equipment, and Technology
List ALL materials, equipment, and technology you and the 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. INSTRUCTION.
Grouping
Identify grouping strategies that will support your students’ learning needs.
II. Instruction
A. Opening
Prior Knowledge Connection
Identify how this lesson connects to previous lessons/learning (prior knowledge of students) and students’ lives.
Anticipatory Set
Identify how this lesson is meaningful to the students and connects to their lives.
B. Learning and Teaching Activities (Teaching and Guided Practice)
I Do
Students Do
Differentiation
Your “I Do” instructional procedures should include:
The teaching strategy you will use to teach each step as well as the modeling and formative assessment; transition statements you will make throughout your lesson and essential questions you will ask; and academic language of vocabulary, function, and form.
Script detailed, step-by-step instructions on how you will implement the instructional plan.
Use a numbered list of each step;
bold every example of modeling; italicize every formative assessment.
Your “Students Do” procedures should describe exactly what students will do during the lesson that corresponds to each step of the “I Do.”
Please use a corresponding numbered list.
Describe methods of differentiation, including accommodation or differentiation strategies for academically, behaviorally, and motivationally challenged students.
Please use a corresponding numbered list.
Include extension activities: What will students who finish early do?
III. ASSESSMENT
Summative Assessment
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.
Differentiation:
Describe methods of differentiation for your summative assessment, including accommodation or differentiation strategies for academically, behaviorally, and motivationally challenged students.
Closure
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.
Homework
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.