Teacher Candidate Lesson Plan
Section 1 – Overview
Candidate Name:
Grade:
Discipline:
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:
Source(s):
Identify the Lesson Structure
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 Target(s):
"I can..." statement for each content and language objective.
Student Voice:
Describe your strategies to elicit student expression of their understanding of the learning targets and why they are
important.
Assessment Indicators & Methodology:
List assessment indivators from all points of the lesson (pre, during, & post) and the related data gathering
methodologies that you will employ.
Evaluative Tool:
Data Analysis:
Checklist
Describe how you will respond to assessment data collected during and following
the lesson.
Materials & Resource 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.
Cultural
Competence
Student
Discourse
Assessment
Opportunity
Differentiation
Strategy
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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