The major components of the lesson plan are lesson objectives, lesson launch notes, lesson tasks, problems and activities, evidence of success, resources, homework, lesson reflections and lesson closure notes.

Lesson objectives

The objective is clearly stated at the beginning of the lesson plan. The skill that students are expected to understand and develop is not only stated but it is also supported by a clear example. This example and the note allow the teacher to know exactly what is expected to achieve with the students

Lesson launch notes

In the lesson launch notes students are guided to recall some basic knowledge related to the topic. The designed questions spot the light on common errors that most students do. The emphasis is on the fundamental concepts that will allow students to build the new knowledge on prior mastered concepts. Students will rely on priory mastered concepts that are clearly identified as an important pre-requisite in the lesson tasks section.

Lesson tasks

In the lesson tasks, problems and activities, the set of questions designed guide the students to figure out the product rule. The various difficulty levels of the questions leave a big room for creativity. Students are allowed to choose different ways to model and solve the problem such as visual and verbal representations, manipulative usage or algebraic methods. The interaction within each group allows students to model, discuss, demonstrate, and determine the pattern or relationship. The teacher will facilitate the learning among group members without dictating them the pathways to find the solution. The tasks have different difficulty levels but they are all designed to place the students at the center of their learning journey. At the end of the activity the teacher display the different ways on the board and together with the students the derivation of the rule will be accomplished.

One of the teaching strategy used is the think-pair-share.  Students think about the questions and try to understand the connections, then they discuss in the same group and comprehend the results and at the end they share the conclusions and finalize their resultant statement.

Another effective strategy is the peer teaching, students who got the idea and showed mastery of the content will be assigned to help their peers.  Scaffolding tasks are planned to allow the teacher to give more time to students with limited abilities while other students are busy doing the tasks.

Extended practice has more than one level of difficulty. The feedback upon the completion of the assignments gives the teacher a clear idea of the depth of the students’ understanding. But to cater for different multiple interests there should be some visual, musical, naturalist, and spatial questions. Real life problems and culture related word problems are always good options that will motivate students to get more involved in their learning process.

 

Evidence of success

Students can be assessed through informal formative assessments such as monitoring small group discussion, through student representation of the problems, and through practice problem and exit ticket.

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Notes

In this section the teacher can shed the light on new terminologies, keywords, common errors, and specific cross curricular links.

Resources

The material essential for students to successfully complete the lesson tasks are specified in this part. Resources can be the tools used by teacher to deliver the lesson as well as the tools that are used by students to demonstrate their learning in the classroom.

Lesson Reflection

This is the teacher’s reflection part. Teacher will do a self-assessment check to specify the efficiency of the teaching strategies, the pace of the lesson, the difficulty of the tasks and the feedback on the curriculum standards.

Homework

The homework is the work that students are expected to do at home to strengthen their understanding level about the discussed topic in class. Homework can be leveled to challenge the different abilities of the students. Students can be asked to create models, write reflections, or answer specific questions. There are many innovative ideas for homework such as designing visual questions which involve graphical representations, open ended questions, correct the error and real life problem solving and research papers