edTPA LESSON PLAN TEMPLATE
(see pg 10 in handbook)
Each lesson plan must be no more than 4 pages in length. You will need to condense or excerpt lesson plans
longer than 4 pages. Any rationale for decisions or explanations should be included in your Planning
Commentary and deleted from your plans.
Date: _______
Period(s): ___
Class: ________________
Central Focus: A description of the important understandings and core concepts that you want
students to develop within the learning segment.
Standards: Please include the number and text of each standard that is being addressed. If only a
portion of a standard is being addressed, then only list the part or parts that are relevant.
Learning Objectives: Given the central focus, describe how the standards and learning objectives
within your learning segment address students’ abilities to:
a) construct meaning from, and interpret complex text.
b) create a written product interpreting or responding to complex features of a text.
Assessments: Informal and formal assessments used to monitor student learning, including type(s)
of assessment and what is being assessed
Instructional Resources and Materials:
For students: (handouts, previous assignments, tests, etc.)
For teacher: (lecture notes, answer keys, overheads, video, lists of questions, etc.)
Instructional Strategies and Learning Tasks (including what you and the students will be doing)
that support diverse student needs
Introduction: How are you going to get the students to recall yesterday’s lesson and how it relates to
what you are doing today? How will you capture student attention?
Introduction Time Frame
Introduction Activity Description
Instruction: Include time estimates for each of your activities and also plan for regular checks for
understanding.
Instruction Time Frame
Instruction Activity Description
Closure: How will you tie the lesson together and reemphasize the concepts presented? How will
you know if
your students “get it” by the end of your lesson?
Closure Time Frame
Closure Activity Description
UBD-UDL INTEGRATED LESSON PLAN TEMPLATE
Lesson:
Author:
Course:
Date:
STEP ONE: Pre-Planning
What are you teaching? Why are you teaching it?
Essential Question(s)
Enduring
Understandings
Mastery Objectives
Content
What students will know
-
Skills
Relevance
Assessment/Checking
for Understanding
What students will be able to do
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Why do students need this knowledge and skills right now? How are
knowledge and skills used by adults?
How will I know that students have understood the content and can
apply the skills?
STEP TWO: The Lesson
How are you teaching it? Why are you teaching it that way?
How do you know the students get it? How do the students know they get it?
Opening/
How will ideas be introduced and linked to prior knowledge?
Activator
Instructional
What instructional strategies and resources might I use to help students
Activities
perform well?
Multiple Means
Representation
Multiple Means
of Engagement
Multiple Means
of Expression
How do you ensure that all students have access to the information presented?
How do you provide multiple pathways for students to learn the material
through multiple entry points, activity settings, and choices for interacting with
the content? (Listening, talking, interacting with physical models, web search,
etc.)
How will students express and/or demonstrate what they have learned?
(Tests, tiered assessments, oral exams, building a model, making a video,
Closing
How will the lesson end and bridge to learning for the future?
STEP THREE: Set-Up
What do you need to be prepared for the lesson?
On the Board
Objectives By the end of the period, you will be able to . . .
Do Now
Agenda
Homework
Materials and
Resources
Needed for the
Lesson
STEP FOUR: Reflections
What did you learn in the process of teaching the lesson?
Ending
Where did the lesson end? What needs to happen tomorrow for this specific class?
Reflection What went well? Why? What did you learn while teaching it? What areas need work?
on the
What steps can you take to make improvement?
Lesson
Modified UDL Lesson Plan Template
(meets performance assessment requirements)
Lesson:
Teacher:
Course:
Date:
TOPIC of this lesson or Essential Question
(content/activity ex. Ch 3 Mice/Men, analyze character)
Common Core State Standards and/or Subject Specific State Standards
List 3-4 standards (CCSS &/or subject specific) aligned to the objectives of this lesson.
Mastery Objectives (Skills)
What students will be able to do (use Bloom’s taxonomy)
Materials/Technology/Resources Needed for the Lesson
Academic Language Vocabulary
Academic Language Function
Formative Assessments
Summative Assessment
Instructional Strategies
What instructional strategies and resources might
be used to help students perform well?
Multiple Means of Representation
Do all students have access to the information
presented?
Multiple Means of Engagement
Multiple Means of Expression
How are multiple pathways provided for students to How will students express and/or demonstrate what
learn the material through multiple entry points,
they have learned? (Tests, tiered assessments, oral
activity settings and choices for interacting with the exams, building a model, making a video, etc.)
content? (Listening, talking, interacting with
physical models, web research, etc)
Opening/Activity (Do Now)
•How will ideas be introduced and linked to prior knowledge?
•How will the opening activity motivate students?
1. (time/structure)* Activity . . .
Agenda
Explicitly describe instructional activities: modeling-I do, guided practice-we do, independent practice-you
do. Include time–approximate minutes & structure–whole class, collaborative, individualized
2. (time/structure)* Activity. . . .
3. . . . .
4. . . . .
5. . . .
Closure (check for understanding)
How will the lesson end and bridge to learning for the future?
6. closing activity
Reflection (to be filled in AFTER lesson delivered)
What went well? Why?
What did you learn while teaching it?
What areas need work?
What steps can you take to make improvement?
TRADITIONAL LESSON PLAN TEMPLATE
Course:
Topic of Lesson:
Instructor:
Grade:
Unit:
Common Core State Standards (or National Content Standards)
Mastery Objectives – Content and Skill (use action verbs)
Materials/Technology/Resources Needed for the Lesson
Academic Language Vocabulary/Function (What content vocabulary will you have to pre-teach; what
focus for vocab function?)
Formative Assessments/Summative assessment
Instructional Strategies (What strategies and resources help students perform well?)
Differentiation: Multiple means of engagement/representation/expression (Consider student
access to information, student interaction, and student presentation)
Opening Activity (Do Now) (How will opening activity introduce topic and motivate students?)
Agenda (Describe instructional activities; include time–approximate minutes & structure–whole class,
collaborative, individualized)
Closing (How will lesson end and bridge to future?)
Reflection (What went well? What needs work? What steps can you take?