Teacher Candidate Lesson Plan
Section 1 - Overview
Candidate Name:
Grade:
Discipline:
Your Name…
Grade…
Math/Literacy/Science/etc
Context for Learning: Describe the classroom context, learner profiles, prior
academic learning/pre-assessment data, prerequisite skills, and student readiness
related to the central focus.
Central Focus: Describe the central focus and purpose for the content you will teach
in the learning segment.
Enduring Understanding: Identify the transferable enduring understanding, big idea,
or essential question connecting this lesson to the learning segment.
Lesson Overview: Summarize the lesson events, then describe how this lesson fits
within a consecutive learning segment/broader conceptual sequence.
Model of Delivery:
Choose an item.
Source(s): Cite all curriculum/web/mentors/other sources.
Standard(s): CCSS/GLE/other standard(s).
Content Learning Objective(s): Identify one or more content specific and
measurable objective. Students will be able to...
Language Demand: Identify the language demands (academic language, content
vocabulary, syntax, function, discourse) that students will encounter or must
use/comprehend as they participate in learning tasks.
Language Learning Objective(s): Considering the above language demands of the
lesson, identify language learning objectives. Students will be able to...
Student Friendly Objective(s)/Learning Targets(s): "I can..." statement for each
content and language objective.
Assessment Indicators & Methodology: List assessment indicators from all points of
the lesson (pre, during, & post) and the related data gathering methodologies that you
will employ.
Evaluative Tool:
Choose an item.
Data Analysis: Describe how you will respond to
assessment data collected during and following the lesson.
Student Voice: Describe your strategies to elicit student expression of their
understanding of the learning targets and why they are important.
Materials & Resources List: Provide a complete list of all needed materials and
resources. Attach copies of student sheets etc. in an appendix.
Lesson Rationale: Justify all of your instructional decisions leading to this lesson plan
for this context. Cite learning theory and best practices.
Differentiation
Strategy
Assessment
Opportunity
Student
Discourse
Cultural
Competence
Teacher Candidate Lesson Plan
Section 2 – Lesson Events
Below, include in narrative form (but not a script) all anticipated teacher and
student behaviors towards mastery of the objectives and language targets. For
each step in the lesson, use the check boxes to the left to indicate specific
instances of differentiation, data collection, student discussion, and evidence
of teacher/student cultural competence. Be sure to make note of transitions
as they occur throughout the lesson and that the lesson sequence has a clear
beginning/middle/end (launch/exploration/debrief).
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