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Powerful Lesson Planning: Every Teacher's Guide to Effective Instruction (Second Edition)

by Janice Skowron, Charlotte Danielson
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Overview

Revitalize your current practices, expand your repertoire of approaches, and improve learning for students!

Every teacher’s goal is to create a rich instructional environment for their students, and thoughtful, informed lesson planning is a key element in that process. Janice Skowron’s jump-start of a book offers novice and experienced teachers step-by-step, essential guidance in this challenging and oftentimes highly complex task. It brings into focus the decisions teachers face as they plan instruction and provides four progressively complex and nuanced models: basic, integrated, differentiated, and problem-based instruction. Descriptive information, numerous examples, and tools such as key questions, planning guides, and templates help educators develop proficiency in planning instruction.

This revised edition will:

Help teachers incorporate the best practices for lesson planning
Build the lesson-planning skills and repertoire of new teachers
Revitalize instruction for veteran teachers
Strengthen teachers’ abilities to plan standards-based lessons
Help teachers focus on assessment in the initial phases of lesson planning

Synopsis

Revitalize your current practices, expand your repertoire of approaches, and improve learning for students!

Every teacher s goal is to create a rich instructional environment for their students, and thoughtful, informed lesson planning is a key element in that process. Janice Skowron s jump-start of a book offers novice and experienced teachers step-by-step, essential guidance in this challenging and oftentimes highly complex task. It brings into focus the decisions teachers face as they plan instruction and provides four progressively complex and nuanced models: basic, integrated, differentiated, and problem-based instruction. Descriptive information, numerous examples, and tools such as key questions, planning guides, and templates help educators develop proficiency in planning instruction.

This revised edition will:

    Help teachers incorporate the best practices for lesson planning
    Build the lesson-planning skills and repertoire of new teachers
    Revitalize instruction for veteran teachers
    Strengthen teachers abilities to plan standards-based lessons
    Help teachers focus on assessment in the initial phases of lesson planning

Powerful Lesson Planning will increase teachers competence and confidence--and help them master the skills needed to advance their practice and improve learning for all students.

About the Author, Janice Skowron

Janice Skowron, Ed.D. is an educational consultant known for facilitating interactive, engaging workshops for teachers and administrators on curriculum and instructional planning in the reading and the language arts. Using research proven strategies, Dr. Skowron models and shows teachers how to create effective lessons for basic, integrated, differentiated, and problem based learning. She has experience as a classroom teacher, reading specialist, and school and district administrator at the elementary and middle school levels.  Dr. Skowron is a frequent presenter at professional conferences and has authored numerous educational materials and articles.

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Book Details

Published
April 1, 2006
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Pages
176
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9781412937313

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