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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.
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.
smaneri
22 days ago
6 comments
I just copied and pasted the article into Word. Time consuming!!
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?
mrstoelke
24 days ago
2 comments
Is there a printable version of this article?
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.
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.
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