Outline:

I. Pros and Cons of Instructional Planning

II. Planning Is Especially Beneficial for New Teachers
III. Deciding What to Teach
a. State Standards and How They Are Developed
b. What State Standards Look Like
c. The Power of State Standards
d. What Happens at the School District Level
e. The Formal and Taught Curricula
f. The Power of the Curriculum
IV. Instructional Objectives
a. What Instructional Objectives Look Like
b. Instructional Objectives Differ in Two Ways
c. Some Objectives Are General, Others Are Specific
d. The Kinds of Objectives We Use Result in Three Different Kinds
e. of Learning: Cognitive, Affective, Psychomotor
f. Another Way of Classifying Learning Outcomes
V. Writing Specific Objectives
a. The Value of Specific Objectives
b. When Are Objectives Good?
VI. Preparing Instructional Plans of Varying Duration
a. The "Long and Short" of Planning
b. Preparing Long-Range Plans: Yearly and Semester Plans
c. Preparing Unit Plans
d. Preparing Lesson Plans
e. Evaluating Lesson Plans
f. The "Backward Design" Idea of Lesson and Unit Planning
g. Resources Useful When Planning
h. Collaborative, Cooperative, or Team Planning
i. Comparative Planning
Taken from Chapter 6 of Act of Teaching.