Planning For Effective Teaching: Lesson 1 Lesson
Planning For Effective Teaching: Lesson 1 Lesson
Planning For Effective Teaching: Lesson 1 Lesson
MODULE 3
Planning for Effective Teaching
INTRODUCTION
OBJECTIVES
After studying the module, you should be able to:
1. Define and differentiate the different parts of the lesson plan;
2. Familiarize with the different formats and parts of lesson plan;
3. Familiarize with the different behavioural objectives used in
Araling Panlipunan.
Teaching
A lesson plan is the instructor’s road map of what students need to learn and how
it will be done effectively during the class time. Then, you can design appropriate
learning activities and develop strategies to obtain feedback on student learning.
Having a carefully constructed lesson plan for each 3-hour lesson allows you to
enter the classroom with more confidence and maximizes your chance of having a
meaningful learning experience with your students.
A successful lesson plan addresses and integrates three key components:
Learning Objectives
Learning activities
Assessment to check for student understanding
A lesson plan provides you with a general outline of your teaching goals,
learning objectives, and means to accomplish them, and is by no means exhaustive.
A productive lesson is not one in which everything goes exactly as planned, but one
in which both students and instructor learn from each other.
Characteristic Description
Clearly stated Free from jargon
tasks and complex
vocabulary; describe
specific and
achievable tasks
(such as ‘describe’,
‘analyse’ or
‘evaluate’) NOT
vague tasks (like
‘appreciate’,
‘understand’ or
‘explore’).
Important Describe the
learning goals essential (rather
than trivial) learning
in the course which a
student must
achieve.
Achievable Can be achieved
within the given
period and sufficient
resources are
available.
Demonstrable Can be
and measurable demonstrated in a
tangible way; are
assessable;
achievement and
quality of
achievement can be
observed.
Fair and All students,
equitable including those with
disabilities or
constraints, have a
fair chance of
achieving them.
Linked to Consider the
course and broader goals - i.e.
program course, program and
objectives institutional goals.
The Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy of Educational Objectives is a useful resource for crafting learning objectives that are
demonstrable and measurable.
It is important that each learning activity in the lesson must be (1) aligned to the lesson’s learning objectives, (2) meaningfully
engage students in active, constructive, authentic, and collaborative ways, and (3) useful where the student is able to take
what they have learnt from engaging with the activity and use it in another context, or for another purpose.
3. Plan to assess student understanding
Assessments (e.g., tests, papers, problem sets, performances)
provide opportunities for students to demonstrate and practice the
knowledge and skills articulated in the learning objectives, and for
instructors to offer targeted feedback that can guide further learning.
Planning for assessment allows you to find out whether your students
are learning. It involves making decisions about:
the number and type of assessment tasks that will best enable students
to demonstrate learning objectives for the lesson
o Examples of different assessments
o Formative and/or summative
the criteria and standards that will be used to make assessment
judgements
o Rubrics
student roles in the assessment process
o Self-assessment
o Peer assessment
the weighting of individual assessment tasks and the method by which
individual task judgements will be combined into a final grade for the
course
o information about how various tasks are to be weighted and
combined into an overall grade must be provided to students
the provision of feedback
o giving feedback to students on how to improve their learning,
as well as giving feedback to instructors how to refine their
teaching
Estimate how much time each of the activities will take, then plan
some extra time for each
When you prepare your lesson plan, next to each activity indicate how
much time you expect it will take
Plan a few minutes at the end of class to answer any remaining
questions and to sum up key points
Plan an extra activity or discussion question in case you have time left
Be flexible – be ready to adjust your lesson plan to students’ needs and
focus on what seems to be more productive rather than sticking to
your original plan
Parts of Lesson Plan There are five parts of detailed and semi-
detailed lesson plans: Objectives Subject matter Procedure
Evaluation Assignment
Procedure The procedure is the body of your lesson plan, the ways
in which you'll share information with students and the methods
you'll use to help them assume a measure of mastery of that
material.
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Lesson 2
Bloom’s Taxonomy consists of three domains that reflect the types of learning we all
do. Each domain has different levels of learning, ordered from the simplest to the most
complex and associated with relevant action verbs.
Bloom’s Taxonomy is a useful tool for teachers in the planning process. I often have
a Bloom’s poster in front of me for lesson planning and for finding the right verbs for
learning intentions or objectives.
The cognitive domain is all about knowledge and mental skills. As you move up the
levels, the thinking skills become more sophisticated.
Benjamin Bloom and David Krathwohl described the original cognitive domain in 1956.
But a lot has changed since then!
Since 1956, Bloom and his team of researchers have had a few criticisms of the
original model. Advances in cognitive psychology prompted Lorin Anderson and David
Krathwohl to publish a new version of the cognitive domain in 2001.
So let’s look at the levels and action verbs in a little more detail.
If the cognitive domain focuses on the mind, then the affective domain is all about the
heart.
Learning in the affective domain describes the way people react emotionally and their
ability to feel others’ pain or joy. It’s all about the awareness and growth in attitudes,
emotion and feelings.
Although the affective domain is part of what we call Bloom’s Taxonomy, it wasn’t
described by Benjamin Bloom. The affective domain was categorised by Bloom’s
collaborator David Krathwohl in 1964.
So, let’s take a look at how the affective domain describes emotional growth along with
the action verbs for each level.
So far the domains have covered thinking and feeling, the psychomotor domain is the
final piece of Bloom’s puzzle — physical skills.
Bloom and his research team didn’t complete any work on the psychomotor domain. It
was developed much later in the early 1970s. A number of different researchers have
suggested different taxonomies to describe how skills and coordination develop.
The model here is the taxonomy developed by Elizabeth Simpson in 1972 which
describes how physical skills develop.
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Building on earlier research by Piaget and Vygotsky, Bloom’s work suggests that thinking
skills develop through cognitive challenge. So, how can you use Bloom’s Taxonomy to
develop this in your teaching?
There are lots of different graphics that combine all the domains and action verbs into one
visual prompt. Once you’ve found your favourite, keep it handy! Use it to be deliberate
about where you are pitching lessons and avoid falling into the trap of using the same old
learning objective verbs all the time.
The questions we use can have a massive impact on learners in making connections,
moving their thinking to another level and developing cognitively.
Use your verbs resource and your questions resource to help you differentiate your
lessons. You can apply higher-order thinking skills and verbs in class discussions. Or
provide an extra challenge for early finishers and develop depth for those advanced
learners who are ready to go further.
Bloom’s three domains remind us that learning isn’t a detached intellectual process but
the sum of what we are understanding, feeling, and actively practicing.
Think about which of your current learners are struggling emotionally and can only
passively receive what you are teaching? Who could do with some critical, thought-
provoking questions to encourage their enthusiasm for learning? Which questions could
promote cognitive development in your struggling learners? I’m sure names and faces
will spring to mind.
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References
Anderson, L.W. and Krathwohl, D. R., et al (Eds..) (2001) A Taxonomy for Learning,
Teaching, and Assessing: A Revision of Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational
Objectives. Allyn & Bacon. Boston, MA (Pearson Education Group)
Bloom, B.S. and Krathwohl, D.R. (1956) Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: The
Classification of Educational Goals, by a committee of college and university
examiners. Handbook I: Cognitive Domain. NY, NY: Longmans, Green.
Lesson 3
Behavioural Objectives in
Teaching Social Studies
MODULE SUMMARY
A lesson plan is the instructor’s road map of what students need to learn and
how it will be done effectively during the class time. Then, you can design appropriate
learning activities and develop strategies to obtain feedback on student learning. Having a
carefully constructed lesson plan for each 3-hour lesson allows you to enter the classroom
with more confidence and maximizes your chance of having a meaningful learning experience
with your students.
Learning Objectives
Learning activities
Congratulations! You have just studied Module 3. I know you are ready to
evaluate how much you have benefited from your reading by answering the
summative test. Good Luck!!!
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SUMMATIVE TEST
Let us have your understanding tested.
Directions: Read and analyze the following questions. Your answers will be evaluated
through the plagiarism checker and the rubric.
Part I.
Prepare 3 lesson plans in teaching Social Studies- (1 for Grade 4, 1 for Grade 5 and
1 for Grade 6) (50 points each)
Part II.
Answer the questions briefly.
1. Why do we need to plan before implementing our lesson in class? (10 points)
2. What is/ are the difference of the three learning domains?
3. What is the most important and least important among the 3 learning domains?
Why?
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REFERENCES
Council for the Welfare of Children, The Filipino Child of the Millennium:
National Plan of Action for Child 2005-2010, (Quezon City: Council for the
Welfare of Children, 2005)
DepED Order No. 8, s. 2015 (Policy Guidelines on Classroom Assessment for the K to 12
Basic Education Program)