This document outlines the agenda and content for a professional development training session on effective lesson planning for teachers in Nepal. The training covers developing lesson objectives, components of an effective lesson plan including modeling and checking for understanding, strategies for teaching with limited resources, communicating with parents, and setting individual professional goals. Participants work in groups to create sample lesson plans and provide feedback through a gallery walk activity. The day concludes with setting professional development goals and evaluating the training.

1. Welcome Back to Day 2!
Effective Lesson Planning 101
Professional Development
Nepal
February 2011
By Farhana N. Shah, U.S.A.
Farhana N. Shah, 2011
1

2. Team Building 2
Farhana N. Shah, 2011
2

3. Today’s Outcomes
By the end of the session, we will :
 Gain ideas on how to teach with limited resources
 Write lesson objective
 Recall components of an effective lesson
 Create a simple lesson plan using the components
 Communicate effectively with parents
 Develop individual goals
 Evaluate training
Farhana N. Shah, 2011
3

4. Today’s Itinerary
Welcome Back!
Team Builder: Three Truths and a Lie
Meeting Protocols and Recap Day 1
Effective Teaching with Limited Resources
Components of an Effective Lesson Plan
Time to Work on Lesson Plan Template
Parent Communication
Individual Professional Development
Summarizer
Evaluation
Farhana N. Shah, 2011
4

5. Ground Rules
 Take responsibility for your own learning.
 If something is not clear, ask questions.
 Participate by sharing your own experiences.
 Be willing to experiment with the ideas and
techniques presented.
 Honor time limits.
 Be respectful of those speaking (limit sidebar )
 Enjoy yourself!
Farhana N. Shah, 2011
5

6. Feedback on Feedback
Farhana N. Shah, 2011
6

7. Activator
Out of the two options below, if you had
only one choice, which would you pick
and why?
•
•
Have teaching materials and resources
Provide teachers with professional
development
Farhana N. Shah, 2011
7

8. Effective Lesson Planning 101
Farhana N. Shah, 2011
8

9. Framing the Learning
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Agenda
Objective
Background knowledge
Making connections
Summarizing
Farhana N. Shah, 2011
9

10. Key questions when planning a lesson
What do I want my students to know ?
 How will I know when they know it?
 How do I engage my students?
 What activities will be effective in order
to gain understanding?


Farhana N. Shah, 2011
10

11. Writing an objective or goal for lesson
An objective basically says what students should know and
what they should be able to do with the academic
content/curriculum. The objective should be:





Match students learning
Should be able to be assessed or measured
Should be posted as “kid-friendly”
Should follow the school’s curriculum
Keep the WHO, HOW, AND WHAT in mind when planning
Who= student
How= assessments/activities/lesson
What= content or concept being taught
Farhana N. Shah, 2011
11

12. Sample Kid-friendly Objective
Objective
The students will draw and explain the life cycle of a
butterfly using a graphic organizer.
Breakdown of objective into who, how, and what:
Who: the students
How: will draw and explain, using graphic organizer
What: the life cycle of a butterfly
Farhana N. Shah, 2011
12

13. Processing Activity
That’s it!
That’s Not it!
Farhana N. Shah, 2011
13

14. Components of a Lesson Plan
 Introduction
 Materials
needed
 Modeling
 Guided Practice
 Independent
Practice
 Checking for understanding/assessments
 Summarizing
Farhana N. Shah, 2011
14

15. Work time…lesson planning with content-alike

Find a partner that teaches same similar or
same
 Use the lesson template provided and your
curriculum to create a simple lesson
 Remember to include all the components
 Be ready to share as part of “gallery walk”
Farhana N. Shah, 2011
15

16. Processing Activity: Gallery Walk

Conduct a gallery walk by looking at the lesson
plans
 Select three you would like to comment on
 Using the post it notes, provide your feedback.
 Owners collect lesson plans and read feedback
Possible feedback ideas: do they have all the components, is the objective
something that can be measured, etc.
Farhana N. Shah, 2011
16

17. Effective Parent Communication
Farhana N. Shah, 2011
17

18. Parents as Stakeholders
Make them your “friend”/ally
Make sure they are aware of your
classroom procedures and expectations
Farhana N. Shah, 2011
18

19. Professional Goal Conversation
 Meet
individually with Farhana
 Meeting will last approximately 10
minutes
Farhana N. Shah, 2011
19

20. Remember…
"A teacher affects eternity;
she can never tell where
her influence stops."
by Henry B. Adams
Farhana N. Shah, 2011
20

21. Summarizer and Evaluation
Please complete both the
summarizer and evaluation for
today’s training. It has been a
pleasure working with you these
past two days!
Farhana N. Shah, 2011
21