*Individual purchase cost is $5 per credit hour for courses or some districts may have a contract.
Description
Use a standards-based lesson planning process to guide your instructional planning. Design a unit plan and lesson plan that align assessment and instruction to selected standards. This course replaces Standards-Based Lesson Planning and is the final course in the Professional Development Certification Program.
Requires student contact.Learning Objectives
- Design instruction and assessments that align with state-adopted standards, match learning objectives, and emphasize student mastery.
- Develop and deliver challenging lessons that engage learners, integrate the subject matter with other disciplines, and relate to life experiences.
- Require students to demonstrate a variety of applicable skills, including higher-order questioning techniques.
- Sequence lessons and concepts to ensure coherence of concepts and required prior knowledge.
- Utilize student feedback to monitor instructional needs and to adjust instruction to respond to preconceptions or misconceptions.
- Analyze data from multiple metrics to diagnose students’ learning needs, inform instruction based on those needs, and drive the learning process.
- Use data from a variety of assessment tools to monitor student progress, evaluate learning outcomes, and adjust planning to continuously improve lessons independently and in collaboration with colleagues.
- Share the importance and outcomes of student assessment data with the student and caregiver(s).
- Accommodate diverse needs by differentiating instruction, adapting the learning environment, and modifying assessments.
- Provide immediate and specific feedback to promote student achievement.
- Engage in targeted professional growth opportunities and reflective practices to improve the effectiveness of instruction based on students’ needs.
- Collaborate with community stakeholders to foster communication, bolster student learning, and support continuous improvement.
- Examines and uses data-informed research to improve instruction and student-achievement.
- Apply technology to organize and integrate assessment information.
Documentation Methods
Participants must document their learning by completing the following summatives.
1 Lesson Plan - Learner creates a standards-based plan for instruction.
3 Reflections - Learner synthesizes previous knowledge and course content in
order to develop a narrative response.
The summatives must meet 80% of the established criteria.
Project Team
Author: Lyndsey Lassiter
Developed by Beacon Educator staff.
Course Last Updated: 2023