Creating Your Teaching Plan: A Guide for Effective Teaching was written to provide you with numerous practical, research-based ideas which you can use in your particular classroom setting. It contains tried and tested strategies to help you be successful, whether you're a new teacher, one returning after an absence, or an experienced teacher looking for new methods. This work text is organized around five critical areas necessary for successful teaching: Starting the Year; Planning; Monitoring and Assessing Learning; Managing the Classroom; Enhancing Reading/Literacy Skills After you have completed the activities in this work text, you will have a written plan for starting your year. This is not a guarantee that the year will be easy or successful, but you will have developed the foundation necessary to enhance student learning.

Creating Your Teaching Plan

A Guide for Effective TeachingBy Arleen P. Mariotti

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Copyright © 2009 Arleen P. Mariotti
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ISBN: 978-1-4490-0450-7

Contents

Preface.........................................................................................iChapter 1: Starting Off Right...................................................................1Creating Your Classroom.........................................................................2First Day Procedures............................................................................6Ice Breakers....................................................................................9The First Academic Assignments..................................................................10Other Critical Considerations...................................................................11Chapter 2: Planning for Effective Instruction...................................................15Long-Term Lesson Planning.......................................................................15Weekly and Daily Lesson Planning................................................................18Weekly Lesson...................................................................................23Daily Planning..................................................................................24Structure of a Lesson Plan......................................................................26Introduction....................................................................................26Closing.........................................................................................27Reflection......................................................................................28What are Standards?.............................................................................32Chapter 3: Key Elements of Effective Lessons....................................................35Bellwork/Warmups................................................................................35Spaced reviews..................................................................................37Active Learning.................................................................................37Nonlinguistic Representations...................................................................39Learning Styles.................................................................................41Questioning.....................................................................................42Wait Time.......................................................................................45Responding to Students' Answers.................................................................46Chapter 4: Monitoring Learning and Adjusting Instruction........................................51Monitoring Methods..............................................................................52Questioning.....................................................................................52Circulating During Seatwork.....................................................................53One-on-One Conversations with Students..........................................................54Assigning, Collecting and Correcting Homework...................................................55Reviewing Periodically..........................................................................57Techniques for Adjusting Instruction............................................................58Content.........................................................................................58Method..........................................................................................59Product.........................................................................................59Introducing a Reteaching Lesson.................................................................60Chapter 5: Assessing Learning...................................................................63Types of Assessment.............................................................................64Targets of Assessment...........................................................................64Matching Targets and Types of Assessments.......................................................66Planning Assessments............................................................................70Developing Assessments..........................................................................70Performance Tasks...............................................................................71Rubrics.........................................................................................75Preparation and Administration of Tests.........................................................76Using Test Results..............................................................................77Feedback to Students............................................................................78Confidentiality.................................................................................80Chapter 6: Classroom Management: Focusing on Prevention.........................................83Effective Managers..............................................................................84What type of planning is needed.................................................................84Warmth vs. Control..............................................................................84Components of Classroom Management..............................................................85Content/Curriculum: Preventive and Supportive Strategies........................................86Feelings of Success.............................................................................87Encouraging Effort..............................................................................87Interpersonal Relationships (Climate): Preventive and Supportive Strategies.....................88Safe Environments...............................................................................89Seating Arrangements............................................................................89Recognizing Positive Behaviors..................................................................90Teaching Social Skills..........................................................................91Content and Climate: Corrective Strategies......................................................92Class Meetings..................................................................................92Conferencing with Student and/or Parents........................................................93Chapter 7: Classroom Management: Communicating Expectations.....................................97Expectations for Behavior: Preventative and Supportive Strategies...............................97Rules...........................................................................................97Consequences....................................................................................99Record Keeping..................................................................................100Reward Systems..................................................................................101Procedures......................................................................................102Giving Students Voice...........................................................................104Expectations for Behavior: Corrective Strategies................................................105Possible Causes for Student Misbehavior.........................................................105Handling Misbehavior through...