Lesson Plan Analysis:
Rationale: Engaging in critical analysis of lesson plans provides candidates with opportunities to learn about teacher instructional decisions and also how to write a better lesson plan later. Please follow these steps:
- From the sample lesson plans provided, select two lesson plans for grades 6-12 on one or similar topics in your content area.
- Analyze each lessonand critique them regarding goals, objectives, State Common Core and ELD standards, structure, instructional strategies, activities, technology applications and assessment techniques.
- Identify EL strategiesused in the lessons. Compare both lesson plans and find similarities and differences.
- Explain how these lesson plans differentiate instruction to address the needs of diversestudents (e.g., students with special needs, ELLs, striving readers, gifted students).
- Conclude with your suggested improvements.
- Write a narrative with explicit supporting referencesfrom course materials (e.g., required textbooks,lecture ppt., video clips). Please use a minimum of three different sources."Explicit' means that you have included evidence of source (e.g., short direct quotes with corresponding page/ slide numbers).
- In addition, attach a short outline (minimum 200 words) of your own lesson plan on the same or similar topic, in a lesson plan format (either EDSC or SDAIE lesson plan format) to demonstrate your growing knowledge of writing effective lesson plans.
Lesson Plan Analysis Rubric
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Required Component
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Maximum points
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Earned Points
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Analysis includes:goals & objectives, standards & structure, strategies & activities, technology applications, and assessment techniques
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4
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Discussion of differentiated instruction
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1
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Suggestions for improvement
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1
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Lesson Plan outline in the required lesson plan format
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2
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Explicit references to course required literature and additional sources are sufficient to support your planning decision; used appropriate APA style for references
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2
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Total
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10 points
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