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9 Keys to Teaching a Successful Lesson

9 Keys to Teaching a Successful Lesson

Jill Hare | Editor, TheApple.com

1. Start With the Standards

Each teacher has a set of standards by grade level and subject that they are tasked to accomplish throughout the year. If you haven’t committed them to memory, make sure you post them or have them ready for easy reference. These standards should guide everything you do.

Follow the wording of the standard closely to make sure you hit the target. While straying from the standard a bit may be okay, if you go too far off course, you’ll loose valuable time.

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    CindyChang

    19 days ago

    4 comments

    Actually I've gone through tough time recengtly because I lost my former enthusiasm suddenly,the classes just go on flowly but without any motivating moments,which is really confusing. This artical reminds me that maybe it comes to the moment I have to look back and see what's missing.

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    smaneri

    22 days ago

    6 comments

    I just copied and pasted the article into Word. Time consuming!!

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    smaneri

    22 days ago

    6 comments

    I want to print this and I don't see a print friendly icon. Anyone know how to print without print the small blurb on a 9 sheets of paper?

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    mrstoelke

    24 days ago

    2 comments

    Is there a printable version of this article?

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    kbolman

    24 days ago

    34 comments

    Start with excitement and your gut! Design what you want to do and then use the standards as a check list. Set the bar high. How much of the lesson can the student discover and share with the group. If they do some of the research they will learn more and depending on subject and age they know how to engage their fellow students often.

    Just a thought about problem based learning.

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    Samantha

    25 days ago

    30 comments

    I find sometimes the standards addressed in a lesson can change as the lesson plan is formed. As a result I will occasionally add the standards after my lesson plan is complete.

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    kimtaylor

    25 days ago

    238 comments

    Lessons can be chosen to be planned or not, exciting or dull, varied or the same. The actual events are of course a little more unpredictable! Yet, while I may be growing in confidence to plan a little less rigidly and thoroughly, and thus spend less time on it, lesson planning is still one the most important uses of my time. Sometimes I plan as thoroughly for only one or two lessons a day, which may be repeated with other groups during the week. But when I do, I find that the lessons are so much better for everyone involved, and gives pupils far more opportunity to learn, and less opportunity to avoid it.

    grossesse

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