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, 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 learner; 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.

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 continually be posted in Google Documents (shared with faculty and field supervisors) and must be completed by the end of your student teaching placement in April.

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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 Last edited 08/2012, K. Dredger Page 2 variety of cultures 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 New 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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