Course: Planning For Instruction
Description
Good instruction can’t happen without good planning. This session will help you develop a balanced plan for helping students reach specific objectives. We will begin by exploring the national standards for world language learning. Using Wiggins’ and McTighe’s planning framework, Understanding by Design, we’ll begin with our goals and plan backward to ensure that all class activities support those end goals.
Topics Addressed
This course (module) will introduce the following topics:
How might you apply this session to your classroom?
Good instruction can’t happen without good planning. This session will help you develop a balanced plan for helping students reach specific objectives. We will begin by exploring the national standards for world language learning. Using Wiggins’ and McTighe’s planning framework, Understanding by Design, we’ll begin with our goals and plan backward to ensure that all class activities support those end goals.
Topics Addressed
This course (module) will introduce the following topics:
- National standards for world language learning
- Modes of communication
- Backward planning
- Goal setting
- Choosing and designing effective instructional activities
- Choosing balanced instructional activities
How might you apply this session to your classroom?
- Support students in self-assessing end goals in the form of Can Do Statements at beginning and end of unit
- Include a learner-centered approach in plotting end goals for student learning
- Enhance your ability to choose activities to support end goals
- Create balanced instruction to maximize learning across all modes