Domain 1: Planning and preparation
Effective teachers plan and prepare to ensure lessons engage all students in thinking, have clear instructional outcomes, monitor learning, and provide relevant knowledge. This set of resources supports teachers in developing their practice in this domain.
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Through engaging in this 40-minute professional learning activity, participants will explain the importance of using backwards design (Understanding by Design) to guide their planning practices. In an optional extension, participants will use backwards design to plan a unit using the unit plan template.
Through engaging in this 40-minute professional learning activity, participants will reflect upon successes and areas for growth from a past lesson. Participants will identify an area of focus to improve upon in an upcoming lesson.
Through engaging in this 60-minute professional learning activity, participants will craft lesson-specific instructional outcomes that are rigorous, clear, measurable, written in the form of student learning, aligned to relevant standards, and represent important learning in the discipline.
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