English Education Lesson Plan Checklist
Purpose of the Checklist:
This checklist is based on NCTE and NCATE standards for English Education and the NETS for teachers. Its main purpose is to ensure that you
will use a variety of strategies while teaching, which is important for a number of reasons:
1. To meet the needs of the diverse group of learners that will characterize your classroom, no matter what your particular setting.
2. To expand students’ conceptions of how one learns; specifically, that there are many ways and reasons to read, to write, to talk, to inquire, to
create.
3. To enhance learning: Considering a topic, concept, or skill from a variety of angles or through a number of strategies increases both the
conceptual and operational knowledge of the lesson in question. For instance, learning about Robert Frost from his poetry itself, through literary
criticism, and through a look at his contemporaries should yield an understanding of the poet, his works, and his place in literary history.
However, opportunities for an expanded understanding of Frost are available in other ways, additional to, not necessarily in place of, the traditional
methods: integration in units not directly related to Frost; model writing; readers’ theater; podcasts of readings; memorization; reader response
strategies and discussion; wiki study, etc.. Remember to ensure that students can see connections between the lessons, units, topics, and strategies
employed.
4. To keep your teaching lively, for you as well as for your students.
5. To meet NCTE/NCATE and NCTE standards and enrich your program portfolio.
Instructions:
1. To facilitate planning, use the following checklist throughout your placement. Write the date, where used (class period, level of students, etc.),
the strategy used, and the standards it addresses.
2. One lesson may accomplish several objectives and thus be listed in more than one category. However, there should be no fewer than 10
lessons represented on this list.
3. Use this checklist to assist you in the development of your program portfolio as well as in the completion of your portfolio self-evaluation.
4. The checklist should updated regularly (and shared with faculty and field supervisors at appropriate points in the semester) and must be
completed by the end of your student teaching placement in April.
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Lesson Plan Checklist – English Education Program
Focus
Date
Strategy
Context Used
NCTE Standard
INTASC
Standard
Grouping for Instruction
Large group
Small Group
Individual
Discussion
Whole Class
Small Group
Individual conference with student
Using Written and Visual Literacy
Use writing, speaking and observing
as major modes of inquiry, reflection
and expression.
Use the processes of composing to
create various artifacts of oral, visual
and written literacy.
Use writing, visual mages, and
speaking for a variety of purposes
and audiences.
Apply knowledge of language
structure and convention to creating
and critiquing print and non-print
texts.
Reading Processes
Uses response strategies
Uses interpretive strategies
Uses analytic strategies
Provide students with opportunities
to select appropriate reading
strategies that aid in unpacking print
and nonprint texts.
Text Selection
Incorporates a variety of genres
Incorporate literature representing a
variety of cultures
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Incorporate a range of modes and
media
Provide students with an
opportunity for choice
Provide students with skills and
opportunities to evaluate, analyze
and ethically use information and
texts.
Composing Processes
Produce a variety of forms of written
discourse
Use a wide range of writing strategies
to generate meaning and to
communicate understanding
Provide peer-feedback
Engage an authentic audience
Technology and Digital
Literacies
Use technology to communicate and
work collaboratively to support
individual learning and the learning
of others.
Use technology as a literacy tool.
Use technology creatively to enhance
teaching and learning.
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