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Essential Questions in Science

• What makes objects move the way they do?

• How are structure and function related in living things?

• Is aging a disease?

• Why and how do scientific theories change?

• How can we best measure what we cannot directly see?

• How do we decide what to believe about a scientific claim?

Essential Questions in the Music

• What can music tell us about a culture or society?

• What does changing tone or pitch affect the mood?

• How can music change environment?

• If practice makes perfect, what makes perfect practice?

Vocabulary

Essential Questions in Mathematics

• When and why should we estimate?

• How does what we measure influence how we measure? ?

• What do good problem solvers do, especially when they get stuck?

• How accurate (precise) does this solution need to be?

• What are the limits of this math model ?

Essential Questions in Language Arts

• What do good readers do, especially when they don't comprehend a text?

• How does what I am reading influence how I should read it?

• Why am I writing? For whom?

• How do effective writers hook and hold their readers?

• What is the relationship between fiction and truth?

• How are stories from other places and times about me?

Academic vs. Content Specific

Essential Questions in History and Social Studies

• Whose "story" is this?

• How can we know what really happened in the past?

• How should governments balance the rights of individuals with the common good?

• Should _______ (e.g., immigration, media expression) be restricted or regulated? When? Who decides?

• Why do people move?

• Why is that there? (geography)

• What is worth fighting for?

Essential Questions in the Arts

• What can artworks tell us about a culture or society?

• What influences creative expression?

• To what extent do artists have a responsibility to their audiences?

  • Use both academic and content specific vocabulary !
  • Include in classroom word wall !

Due Dates

  • Lesson plans will continue to be due weekly on Tuesday the week before they are taught to department chairs.

Utilize with Fidelity

  • Submitted electronically to google drive:
  • This is the adopted RPS model & older or alternative lesson plan templates should not be used.

Waller- Math & Expanded Core

Smith- English & Exceptional Education

Williams - Science & History

  • Administrators will review regularly.
  • All lesson plans should be printed and kept in lesson plan binder. Current plans should be placed in a folder and hung near the entrance of your classroom.

DATA Due Dates on Google Drive

Boushall Middle School

  • However, we understand it is still new !

Use RPS & VDOE resources

& the RPS Lesson Plan

template for 2016-2017

The RPS lesson plan starts with listing ....

Homework

List teacher name (s):

Dates the lesson plans will cover :

Grade level / Course :

Content or Unit:

and Learning objective(s)

Learning objectives should specify behaviors, conditions and criteria. Refer to curriculum framework for verbs !

  • Valid, clear, specific
  • Assessed for progress with feedback given
  • Relevant & creative with variety
  • Assigned daily
  • Inside portfolio or folder
  • NOT PUNISHMENT or BUSY WORK

Common Planning

Great time to bring together ideas, strategies, and resources.

Assessment part 1

Learning Misconceptions

Backward Designs assessment questions for summative test and quizzes

There are resources online for misconceptions!

Teaching & Learning Activities

"I do" ..... then "We do"...then "Students do".....

  • Direct instruction
  • Small groups
  • Stations
  • Independent work time

Only a Few Additions

Learning Curve Ahead

2014-15 additions.....

  • Essential Questions & Understanding/ Big Ideas
  • Possible Misconceptions or learning Gaps
  • Assessments!- More in class Formative

2015-16 addition.....

  • List accommodations for each student

Teacher Reflections

Personal reflection of today's lesson

Glows...

Grows....

Instructional Strategies

Snapshot

Warm Up / Bell Ringer

Assessment part 2

Include in your planning to take your lessons to the next level .....

  • Higher level thinking
  • Interdisciplinary connections
  • Technology

Formative assessments activities to discover what students MASTERED in today's lesson.

  • Exit card
  • Practice sheet
  • Oral Responses
  • Jeopardy

Lesson Closure and Student Summarizing their Learning

Review with students what they learned. Take notice of gaps to refocus for next lesson or remediation for small groups/ individuals

Actively check for student understanding throughout lesson by....

  • Q & A Dipsticking
  • Using classroom response systems
  • (Edmodo, Kahoots etc.)
  • Quick Quizzes

A good essential question

  • Is open-ended; that is, it typically will not have a single, final, and correct answer.
  • Is thought-provoking and intellectually engaging, often sparking discussion & debate.
  • Calls for higher-order thinking, such as analysis, inference, evaluation, prediction. It cannot be effectively answered by recall alone.
  • Points toward important, transferable ideas within (and sometimes across) disciplines / content areas.
  • Raises additional questions and sparks further inquiry.
  • Requires support and justification, not just an answer.
  • Recurs over time; that is, the question can and should be revisited again and again.

Question Break

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  • List instructional on your lesson plan strategies that will be the most effective and engaging for your students such as Marzano’s Nine High-Yield Instructional Strategies:
  • Setting objectives and providing feedback
  • Generating and testing hypothesis
  • Questions, cues, and advance organizers
  • Identifying similarities and differences
  • Summarizing and note taking
  • Reinforcing effort and providing recognition
  • Homework and practice
  • Nonlinguistic representations
  • Cooperative learning

  • Have in place every day at the beginning of class
  • Should only last no more than five minutes.
  • Used to activate prior knowledge
  • Used to review material from previous date

Include the accommodations of all your students with disabilities here using the following convention .....

J.G. ###### - read aloud (test), small group

P.Q ###### - small group , frequent breaks

A.P ###### - calculator, extended time (test) when effort is shown

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