Great lessons don’t just happen!  Effective practitioners are intentional about determining a lesson’s purpose and the instructional process they’ll use to best meet their students’ needs.  They plan so that their students’ investment of time in learning is valued and productive and moves them toward the attainment of specific learning objectives.

At the College of Professional Studies’ Center for Educator Preparation, teacher candidates are required to prepare comprehensive lesson plans that foster the process of planning effective instruction.  With time and experience, this process becomes intrinsic, leading to the need for less documentation.

This book is intended to serve as a resource for beginning teachers as they master the art of effective lesson planning and for experienced teachers as they revisit the components of lesson planning that become second nature over time.

Each chapter presents a component of lesson planning critical for student learning and describes how that component is targeted in  our college’s lesson planning tools, including the CPS’s CEP Lesson Plan Template, the CEP Lesson Plan Rubric, and the CPS Lesson Observation Feedback Tool.

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