What's the Plan? A Preservice Teacher's Guide to Lesson Planning
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2025
Pages: 94
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2025
Pages: 94
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This book provides a comprehensive guide to effective lesson planning and instructional strategies for educators. It begins with setting standards, objectives, and identifying key learning goals. Chapters cover essential teaching components including formative and summative assessments, academic language demands, effective questioning, and instructional delivery. The book also explores theoretical perspectives that inform teaching practices, the use of materials and resources, and strategies for classroom management and safety. Special attention is given to accommodations, modifications, and differentiated instruction to meet diverse learner needs. Complete with lesson references, this resource equips educators with practical tools to create engaging, inclusive, and standards-based learning environments.
Chapter 1 Standards, Main Focus, and Lesson Objectives
Chapter 2 Formative and Summative Assessments
Chapter 3 Academic Language Demands
Chapter 4 Questioning
Chapter 5 Instruction
Chapter 6 Theoretical Perspective
Chapter 7 Materials and Resources
Chapter 8 Classroom Management and Safety
Chapter 9 Accommodations, Modifications, and Differentiation
Chapter 10 Lesson References
Elizabeth McMillan, PhD, has been a Tennessee educator for 13 years. The first six years of her career were spent teaching 5th grade before transitioning to Tennessee Tech University’s College of Education, where she has been for the past seven years. Elizabeth enjoys instructing, coaching, and supporting her students through their methods courses and throughout their edTPA journey. When she is not teaching, Elizabeth enjoys spending time with her family at their farm and at the lake.