- Helpful Resources,
- Lesson Plan Example and Guide,
- Reflection on the "12 Touchstones"
- and share your Feedback!
Additional Useful Resources for Teachers!
A Guide to Teaching & Learning Practices
The What Works Clearinghouse
From book to classroom: Applying the 12 Touchstones
Hattie Ranking: 195 Influences And Effect Sizes Related To Student Achievement
Institutes on Academic Diversity
The Importance of Motivation in an Educational Environment
Graphic Organizers
A Guide to Teaching & Learning Practices
The What Works Clearinghouse
From book to classroom: Applying the 12 Touchstones
Hattie Ranking: 195 Influences And Effect Sizes Related To Student Achievement
Institutes on Academic Diversity
The Importance of Motivation in an Educational Environment
Graphic Organizers
Example lesson plan
| lesson_plan_for_writing_a_paragraph_to_describe_a_graph.pdf |
Reflection on implementing the 12 touchstones
| professional_reflection.pdf |
Steps to Planning an Effective Lesson
(From OTL502 Learning Theories and Models of Instruction Course at CSU Global Campus)
Step 1:
(From OTL502 Learning Theories and Models of Instruction Course at CSU Global Campus)
Step 1:
- Determine the topic for the lesson.
- List the standard.
- Unpack the standard.
- Write an essential question.
- Identify a formative (pre-) assessment procedure.
- Administer the pre-assessment to students.
- Graph the results of the pre-assessment data.
- Create a rubric.
- Have students set personal learning goals.
- Add ways to re-engage students.
- Add student choice.
- Add real-world relevancy.
- Add opportunities to interact and engage with students.
- Identify rules and procedures for active learning.
- Identify ways to provide specific and timely feedback.
- Identify ways students can check their progress.
- Add opportunities for students to process every 15 minutes.
- Use the Six Essential C's to assess everything in the lesson or unit to ensure that it has a purpose.
- Add amount of time devoted to every activity in the lesson or unit.
- Implement the lesson or begin the unit.