Drury University Teacher Candidate Lesson Plan Template - Complete Lesson Plan Sections

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A structured lesson plan template designed for teacher candidates to build well-planned, meaningful daily instruction and strengthen instructional practice. The format guides lesson design from required learner goals and standards through pre-assessment, formative and summative assessment, and an explicit sequence of events. It also supports planning for engagement strategies, active learning tasks, and explanation, elaboration, and evaluation steps, plus resources, technology rationale, effectiveness checks, differentiation, classroom environment, cultural and language learner considerations, and reflective review.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryPresentations

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Pages4

Reading Time2 min

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Lesson Overview and Standards

Learner Goals and Assessments

Engage-Explore-Explain-Elaborate-Evaluate Structure

Sequence of Events and Materials

Learning Activities and Instructional Strategies

Technology and Differentiation

Resources, Technology, and Modifications

Classroom, Cultural, and Reflective Review

Environment, Learner Considerations, and Reflection

Drury University Teacher Candidate Lesson Plan Template This Lesson Plan Format is a tool that can help a teacher candidate develop well-planned and structured lessons. This format also can help a teacher candidate better understand and design meaningful daily lessons that can positively enhance his or her instructional practice and students’ learning. Please delete all instructions before the final submission of your lesson plan and title the lesson plan template with an appropriate lesson plan descriptor. Name: Grade Level: Content/Subject: Lesson Start Time: Number of Students: Lesson End Time: Missouri Standards: National Standards: MEES Standards: (MEES Standards required for student teaching semester) What learning goals did you identify for this lesson? Pre-Assessment: Describe and explain how you will determine student prior knowledge and how you will adjust your teaching based on the assessment result. Formative Assessment: What is happening within the lesson relative to student learning? How will you check for student learning and adjust the remainder of the lesson(s) accordingly? Summative Assessment: Will you assess formally or informally? Did your students obtain the content knowledge of the objective(s)? Describe. Engage: Include connections to past learning and future learning. (Instructional Strategies) Explore: What are the students doing to actively explore the objectives? (Learning Activities) Explain: How are the students explaining or demonstrating the objectives or concepts being taught? Elaborate: Explain how this lesson included authentic application to future learning and the students’ conceptual knowledge of the objectives. Evaluate: Summarizes your overall assessment plan. Sequence of Events: Describe. Name of Instructional Strategy: describe Name of Learning Activity: describe Name of Instructional Strategy: describe Name of Learning Activity: describe What resources and materials will you use to support your instruction? Provide a rationale to support those choices. What types of technology do you plan to use in your instruction? How will this technology enhance your instruction and student learning in this lesson? What is the rationale for the technology chosen for the lesson? How will you assess the effectiveness of the technology? Modifications to Content: The information students learn or the ways students access the information: Describe how the content will change for supporting struggling students and increase in rigor for students who need to be challenged. Modifications to Process: How students take in and make sense of the content: Describe how the learning process will change for supporting struggling students and increase in rigor for students who need to be challenged. Modifications to the Product: How students show what they know, understand, and can do: Describe how the product will change for supporting struggling students and increase in rigor for students who need to be challenged. Modifications to the Classroom Environment: The climate or tone of the classroom. Describe how grouping students or other classroom environment factors will change for supporting struggling students and increase in rigor for students who need to be challenged. Cultural Considerations: describe Language Learner Considerations: describe Review the Lesson Structure and Lesson Activities and explain how the activities keep students on task and actively engaged. Explain how you will review within lesson to deepen student understanding/interconnect concepts. When applicable, explain what you would do if you were going to continue teaching this concept. Provide any supplemental information that might be needed when teaching this lesson, i.e., what variables did you have to consider when planning this lesson? Did anything go differently than you had planned? What would you change about the lesson if you taught it again? How did you gear up or gear down the lesson? Was it effective? Reflect on

FAQs

What sections does this lesson plan template require for teacher candidates?

It includes lesson basics (name, grade level, subject, start/end time), standards, learning goals, and a full Engage-Explore-Explain-Elaborate-Evaluate flow. It also requests a sequence of events, resources, technology planning, differentiation, and reflection prompts.

How should pre-assessment, formative assessment, and summative assessment be planned?

The template asks candidates to describe how they will determine students’ prior knowledge, how learning checks will occur during instruction with adjustments, and whether assessment will be formal or informal. It also requests confirmation that students attained the objectives’ content knowledge.

How does the template support differentiation and learner needs?

It provides dedicated prompts for modifying content, process, product, and the classroom environment to support struggling students and increase rigor for students who need challenge. It also includes space for cultural considerations and language learner considerations.

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