Lesson planning with purpose : five approaches to curriculum design / Christy McConnell, Bradley Conrad, P. Bruce Uhrmacher ; foreword by Jacqueline Grennon Brooks.
"Lesson Planning with Purpose takes readers on a journey through many pathways to engaging and meaningful educational experiences. The text first discusses Perceptive Teaching and then explores five unique approaches to lesson planning: behaviorist, constructivist, aesthetic, ecological, and integra...
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New York, NY :
Teachers College Press,
[2020]
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| Physical Description: | xvii, 190 pages ; 24 cm |
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Contents:
- Chapter 1. Planning with purpose
- Curriculum lens
- Overview of the five approaches to lesson planning
- General tips to make each approach successful
- Teachers as artists
- What does it mean to plan with purpose?
- How to use this book
- Chapter 2. Perceptive teaching : who I am and what I do
- Teaching is never a neutral act
- What is culture? What is multicultural education?
- What is culturally responsive pedagogy?
- Educational psychologists' contributions to multiculturalism
- Qualities of perceptive teaching
- Who I am : open-minded, aware, caring, authentic
- What I do : personalize the experience, teach the whole person, teach with intention, develop autonomy
- Discussion
- Chapter 3. The behaviorist approach to lesson planning : skill development
- Rationale
- Theoretical background
- Practical application : lesson plan formats
- Learning aims : behavioral objectives with ABCD format
- Assessment and evaluation
- Classroom interactions and roles
- Lesson plan comparison : the behaviorist approach to teaching metaphor
- Critiques and considerations
- Chapter 4. The constructivist approach to lesson planning : individualized meaning making
- Rationale
- Theoretical background
- Practical application : lesson plan formats
- Learning aims : emergent understandings
- Assessment and evaluation
- Classroom interactions and roles
- Lesson plan comparison : the constructivist approach to teaching metaphor
- Critiques and considerations
- Chapter 5. The aesthetic approach to lesson planning : sensory-rich, memorable experiences
- Rationale
- Theoretical background
- Practical application : lesson plan formats
- Learning aims : expressive objectives
- Assessment and evaluation (critique) : evaluate, assess, reflect
- Classroom interactions and roles
- Lesson plan comparison : the aesthetic approach to teaching metaphor
- Critiques and considerations
- Chapter 6. The ecological approach to lesson planning : real-world relevance and connections
- Rationale
- Theoretical background
- Ecomindedness and place-based curriculum together
- Practical application : lesson plan formats
- Learning aims : experience-based objectives (EBOs)
- Lesson plan examples
- Assessment and evaluation
- Classroom interactions and roles
- Lesson plan comparison : the ecological approach to teaching metaphor
- Critiques and considerations
- Chapter 7. The integrated social-emotional learning approach to lesson planning : relationship building and holistic development
- Rationale
- Theoretical background
- Practical application : lesson plan formats
- Learning aims : integrated social-emotional & individual SEL objectives
- Assessment and evaluation
- Classroom interactions and roles
- Lesson plan comparison : the integrated social-emotional learning approach to teaching metaphor
- Critiques and considerations
- Chapter 8. Planning with purpose summary and extensions
- The five approaches to lesson planning
- Paying attention to context : perceptive teaching
- Blending approaches
- Another word on lesson planning
- Unit planning
- Unit plans using a single approach
- Bringing it all together.