Instructional planning

These 50+ strategies to jumpstart your teaching brain include literacy strategies, approaches to assessment, and grouping strategies.

Since the introduction of generative AI, I have been exploring, testing, and reviewing a wide variety of educational AI tools. A select few of these AI tools have particularly caught my attention especially given their huge potential to enhance teachers lesson planning and facilitate their administrative workflow. In this post, I am sharing with you…

Are you a teacher looking for a simple, quick, and effective process to follow in order to differentiate lessons for all types of learners? In this blog post I’m going to share a differentiated lesson plan from start to finish, and spoiler alert: it will actually save you time on lesson planning in the long run!

Simple steps for lesson planning! Great for high school classes.

Whether you have days or decades of teaching experience, lesson planning has the potential to enhance your impact. Dr Lincoln Gomes shares why and how to get started.

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Use this list of 107 instructional strategies to fill-in that lesson plan or teaching portfolio with some high quality teaching strategies.Or, try some of these strategies out when you’re low on ideas and looking for a fresh way to teach in the classroom!

Learn how to set yearlong plans, plan for a unit and daily topics, and create lessons plans.

So what kind of work should you expect to do as an instructional designer? There are a lot of different options based on your specific skills, check out The Instructional Design Company for the list of common tasks.

Marzano's 9 Instructional Strategies include non-linguistic representations, generating and testing hypotheses, and summarizing.

How can you build effective lessons and feel in control of the class? Lesson plans are essential to planning and ultimately giving great ESL lessons. But isn’t making lesson plans long and arduous?

A few weeks ago, I became deeply troubled as an educator. While I have frequently heard complaints from colleagues that our state’s standards have taken the personality out of teaching and have caused kids to hate school, I was recently startled to hear similar sentiments expressed from one of my preservice teachers! After being out […]

Assessment for Learning (AfL) is the process of finding out how much progress students have made in their learning and then planning next steps for them. What does successful AfL look like? Strateg…

Assessment is an important part of planning, but how do you assess all aspects of reading. Jennifer Serravallo has great recommendations in her book, and this post reviews her ideas.

The last two components of my math block are the math lesson and lesson assessment. I use the 5-E lesson model to teach new math content. I like the 5-E model because it allows the students to explore and discover the content on their own before I provide additional information and strategies. The 5-E model also allows me to facilitate the lesson through questioning and assess the students' understanding throughout the lesson through my observations. While I regularly plan my lessons using…

Differentiation Handout Great graphic to introduce staff to the basics of differentiated instruction.