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DESIGNING WINNING LESSON
PLANS
Karen Kallas
Birdville ISD
September 18, 2010
Lesson Plan Contest
Two parts:Written portionPerformance portion
Your Questions and Concerns
Write your questions and concerns on the index cards provided.
Responses will be provided throughout the session.
Resources
TAFE Lesson Plan wikiLesson Plan GuidelinesToday’s PowerPointToday’s handouts6 plans that have made the state finalsTemplate for students
TAFE Websitehttp://tafelessonplancontest.wikispaces.com/
http://tafeonline.org/
Written Portion
Label them!
Use Components of the Lesson in the T.A.F.E. Lesson Plan Competition guidelines.
Written Portion
Make them pop!
Written Portion
Color it! Use color to highlight parts of the lesson such as headings, explanations, side notes, etc.
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Written Portion
Step it out! Encourage students to write their lesson
plans as if they were explaining step by step directions. Write the lesson in conversational language that is easy for the reader to understand.
Written Portion
Don’t assume! Make no assumptions about who will be
judging this and what they will infer.
Written Portion
Make it clever, Trevor! Come up with a name that is descriptive, yet unique.
Which is more interesting: Classifying Organisms or Living or Nonliving?
Written Portion
Start it off right! Be sure that you begin the lesson with an
anticipatory set, a sponge, a motivator, or something to draw the students’ interest.
Written Portion
The clock is ticking. Be obvious with your use of time
management. Beginnings, transitions, and endings are crucial.
Written Portion
Consistency counts. Be consistent in writing in first, second, or
third person.
Written Portion
Spell it out! List the TEKS by using the complete text.
Do not abbreviate, i.e. 13B. Be sure they fit the grade and/or content area identified in the plan.
Written Portion
Make it relevant. Why is the lesson, content, topic
important to the learner? Encourage students to write dialogue that might blatantly state the lesson’s importance in kid friendly terms.
Written Portion
Make it obvious. Be sure your plan for assessment is written
into the lesson.
Written Portion
Attachments, please! Be sure to include all handouts, pictures of
props or diagrams of items to help clarify your plan to the reader.
Written Portion
Happy endings are important. Be sure the lesson doesn’t just drop off.
Students need to plan a way to bring the lesson to a close.
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Presentation Portion
Pack it up. Bring all of your equipment:
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Practice makes perfect. Practice your lesson before you arrive. Be
sure you have timed it. Make plans if the mock students don’t
cooperate and you run out of time. Practice your set up, also!
Presentation Portion
Begin with a bang! When beginning the lesson, avoid saying,
“O.K., let’s start.” Rather begin with something such as “Students, each of your tables has a blank piece of paper in the middle of it. I’d like each member of your group to write two things you know about the gold rush in California.”
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Deal with disruptions! Demonstrate your classroom management
skills. Be sure to address students who are off-task or causing disruptions. Suggestions might include the following:○ Walk around among the students while teaching
the lesson. ○ Point to the spot on a student’s worksheet to
remind them where they should be focusing.○ Stand by a student who is off task.○ Ask a student to switch seats with someone else.
Presentation Portion
Live in the past. Refer to previous learning. If this is not a stand-alone lesson, or just a portion of a unit, indicate in your plan how you will address that.Example: Students, remember when we finished our
creative writing time yesterday we had just drawn the prompts we would write about. Today we will continue with constructing an interesting introduction and outline the main points that we will include in our composition.
Example: Do you remember the process we used to plot the y axis last week? Well, today we are going to carry that one step further to learn how to graph a point.
Relax! A smile and deep breath will help you focus
and enjoy an experience few get. Make the most of it! Every participant is a winner!
Sponsor Ethics
Be the guide on the side. Insure that the work is that of the
student, not that of the teacher.
Contact Information
Karen Kallas
Education and Training Teacher
Birdville Center of Technology and Advanced Learning
7020 Mid Cities Boulevard
No. Richland Hills, TX 76180
Phone: 817-547-3886
