TOMME Lesson Plan
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Time – How much time are you allotting for the lesson?
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Objective – What are the Social Studies OAS standard/s and NCSS theme? What Language Arts OAS
standards are included? How are the objectives related to the goals/standards? The learner, target
behavior, conditions, and criteria should be included. (What the student will do as a direct result
of the lesson?)
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Method – The method or instructional strategies must include the following components.
1. *Anticipatory Set or Opening – Statement to the students about the concepts
to be taught. Setting the Stage – Attention-Getter – Focus Activity (Include readability of
texts here.)
2. **Interactive Presentation – This involves the teacher presenting and interacting with
students.
Instructional input – What you as the teacher will do to provide instruction and
information on the skills being taught.
Modeling – The teacher instructs the students to watch, listen, and think aloud
while modeling the skills.
Check for understanding – Determination of whether students have “got it”
before proceeding to practice. If there is any doubt that the class has understood,
the concept/skill should be retaught before practice begins.
Guided Practice – An opportunity for each student to demonstrate grasp of new
learning by working through an activity or exercise under the teacher’s direct
supervision. The teacher moves around the room to determine the level of mastery
and to provide individual remediation as needed.
3. ***Closure – Those actions or statements by a teacher that are designed to bring a
lesson presentation to an appropriate conclusion. This helps students bring things
together in their own minds and to make sense out of what has just been taught.
Include a review of the content, preview of the next lesson, and an introduction and
assignment of independent practice.
Review – The critical information presented in the lesson is summarized.
Preview – This consists of introducing the next lesson.
Independent Practice – Once students have mastered the content or skill, it is time to
provide for reinforcement practice. It is provided on a repeating schedule so that the learning is not forgotten. It
may be home work or group or individual work in class. It can be utilized as an element in a subsequent project.
It should provide for enough different contexts so that the skill/concept may be applied to any relevant situation,
not only the context in which it was originally learned, i.e., transfer.
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Materials – What materials are you going to use to teach this lesson?
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Evaluation – How are you going to assess the students before, during, and after instruction? Your
assessment should reflect your specific lesson objective or goal.
*Initiation Stage
**Development Stage
***Culmination Stage