Lesson started with a Provided an activity which Activity was missing or did up activity that helped activated prior knowledge by not review previous Warm-up/ students review any previous reviewing previous learning. learning. Review/ instruction and make Make Activity was missing or did connections to what they Made connections to previous Connections not connect students to already knew or believed experiences. their own experiences. about the new topic. Essential question was not Introduced essential question. introduced. The essential question and the content of the lesson were Introduction to Gave clear explanations of introduced. A clear Objectives were not Content/ objective and purpose of explanation of the objectives explained adequately. Explanation activities. and their relationship to the essential question was given. Discussed context and Rationale for the lesson Plan rationale for the lesson. was not addressed. The lesson content was Communicated the lesson conveyed using only one Activity content using a variety of modality or was not multi-sensory methods. Concepts were communicated conveyed adequately. Presentation/ in multi-sensory ways. Direct Demonstrated and explained No modeling occurred or Model the explicit instruction was Lesson steps while students the steps were not Learning provided. The instructor observed. adequately explained. Process clearly described steps while modeling the tasks. Modeled strategies by No modeling done or it was doing—correctly, clearly, and not done adequately. concisely using aloud.” “think Introduced structured activities that allowed Activities were not students to practice skills structured to offer Scaffolded/ The instructor broke skills clustered into increasingly increasingly difficult tasks. Guided down into learnable parts and larger chunks. Concrete provided constructive Provided guidance and Feedback was not Practice feedback. constructive feedback while constructive or not offered students were working on the while students were activities. engaged in practicing skills.
Lesson Activity Plan Warm-up/ Review/ Make Connections Lesson started with a activity that helped students review any previous instruction and make connections to what they already knew or believed about the new topic. Provided an activity which activated prior knowledge by reviewing previous learning. Activity was missing or did not review previous learning. Made connections to previous experiences. Activity was missing or did not connect students to their own experiences. Introduction to Content/ Explanation The essential question and the content of the lesson were introduced. A clear explanation of the objectives and their relationship to the essential question was given. Introduced essential question. Essential question was not introduced. Gave clear explanations of objective and purpose of activities. Objectives were not explained adequately. Discussed context and rationale for the lesson. Rationale for the lesson was not addressed. Presentation/ Model the Learning Process Concepts were communicated in multi-sensory ways. Direct explicit instruction was provided. The instructor clearly described steps while modeling the tasks. Communicated the lesson content using a variety of multi-sensory methods. The lesson content was conveyed using only one modality or was not conveyed adequately. Demonstrated and explained steps while students observed. No modeling occurred or the steps were not adequately explained. Modeled strategies by doing—correctly, clearly, and concisely using “think aloud.” No modeling done or it was not done adequately. Scaffolded/ Guided Concrete Practice The instructor broke skills down into learnable parts and provided constructive feedback. Introduced structured activities that allowed students to practice skills clustered into increasingly larger chunks. Activities were not structured to offer increasingly difficult tasks. Provided guidance and constructive feedback while students were working on the activities. Feedback was not constructive or not offered while students were engaged in practicing skills. up