CADET TEACHING
Instructional Unit
MARCH
Rationale: Effective teachers spend time planning for their lessons.
In this way, a teacher is like an architect, who knows that a house
can’t be built without a house plan. You can’t achieve the goals and
objectives you set without plans for attaining them. The teacher’s
lesson plans are the way to attain the goals and objectives for the
unit. Therefore, the forming of lesson plans is a critical skill for
teachers to master.
Goal: The cadet teacher will gain experience making lesson plans for
an instructional unit.
Objective: The cadet teacher will develop a series of workable
classroom lesson plans for the instructional unit.
Instructions:
1. Review the rationale, goals, and objectives you identified for the
instructional unit you are working on. Review the single lesson plan
you developed for last month’s project.
2. Review the format for the lesson plan (below).
3. Develop a series of lesson plans you would use day-by-day to teach
the instructional unit to students. Use the objectives you identified as
the basis for each lesson.
4. Gather and/or develop the materials you need for each unit and
include them with each lesson plan. Materials to include with each
lesson plan would be worksheets, quizzes, blank-line maps, lecture
notes, etc. (It’s OK to use materials already developed by publishers,
textbook authors, and your supervising teacher, in addition to what
you make on your own. That’s where we get many of our ideas as
teachers!)
5. Turn in your instructional unit stapled together in this order: a
title page with the title of the unit and your name, page 2 is a clean
copy of your rational, goals, and learning objectives for the unit,
pages thereafter are the lesson plans with written materials. It is
due at the end of the month meeting.
Evaluation: Remember that the purpose of this assignment is to help
you develop new skills and grow in the profession. Therefore, there is
obviously no "right or wrong" criteria that can possible be used to
evaluate your goals and objectives. Please use this assignment as an
opportunity to help yourself, since that is why you are doing it.
However, since it is only fair to receive credit for work completed, the
following point system will be used to evaluate your
assignment:
Student develops an exemplary instructional unit that is usable
and
would make for exciting and effective instruction. The rationale,
goals, and learning objectives are clearly
identified.
The learning activities would clearly help the students achieve
the
objectives for the lessons.
The list of materials needed is complete, and a copy of
written
materials (e.g. worksheets) is included with each lesson if identified.
Several methods of evaluation are identified in each
lesson.
Student wrote an a complete and detailed instructional unit
that
would be usable and realistic, and would lead students to achieve
the objectives identified. All required parts as identified in the
instructions above are included.
Student developed an instructional unit that contained all of
the
required parts as identified in instructions above.
Student attempted to develop an instructional unit, but some of
the required parts are missing or incomplete.
Student made no serious attempt to complete the assignment.
FORMAT FOR EACH LESSON PLAN
Lesson #___
Title
Objective(s): From the ones you identified in the beginning
Plan for Instruction: Series of steps. What will the teacher do? What
will the students do?
1.
2.
3. etc.
Materials needed: What equipment and supplies will you need for this
day’s lesson? A copy of
any written material (such as worksheets, web sites, etc.) must be
included.
Evaluation: How will you know whether the students have achieved
the learning objective(s)
you identified for this lesson? List a couple of ways you will find out
either immediately or down the road. (Types of Assessments,
Observations, Tasks, Projects, etc.)