Instructional+Practices+and+Planning+for+Student+Learning

On this page you will find the Power Point presentation and accompanying worksheet for you to personalize for the "Effective Instructional Practices and Planning for Student Learning Module during ABRAZO 2011 that will take place the afternoon of Day 1, August 4th. ﻿Below is the Logisitics PP. This is no longer a required component of this module but has been posted for your reference.
 * ﻿August 4, 2011 ** **Session 2 Resources ** ** EFFECTIVE INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICES AND PLANNING FOR STUDENT LEARNING **

The first half of this three and a half hour training will be to review the Power Point below. The second half of the session will focus on the specific content area/grade level lesson that you will MODEL for teachers. We also gave you a second Power Point regarding routines and procedures. Because time is limited, incorporate at your discretion

 There is a new segment in this updated version of this Power Point about Backwards Planning. It is very straightforward and should not require much work on your part. In fact, you can pretty much read the text on the slides and you should be fine. But be sure to review it in the next few days. Contact us if you have any questions.  We have also made changes to the remaining components of this Power Point to better align it to the new Instructional Rubric for the Appraisal Process and to the documents that will be available from the Curriculum Department for next year. Curriculum documents include a Scope and Sequence, VAM, Unit Framework and Unit Planning Guide. We are NO LONGER using HAPG, so please avoid using HAPG terminology in your presentation.

A major component of the success of this segment is the personalization that you will do by adding specific examples of each component of the lesson planning process that come from your content area/grade level. Periodically you will find a slide for you to add your own examples. It might be useful to include examples that come directly from the Model Lesson that you will "teach" in the second half of this session.  Because each school uses a different lesson plan template, we have not included a sample lesson plan but rather we have developed a guide (below) that includes the description of each element of an effective lesson plan. Cut and paste the examples you used in your Power Point and place them under the Content Area/Grade Level Examples column. (You received an incomplete draft of this at the training.)
 * 1) __POWERPOINT__:**

**2)** __**NOTE-TAKING HANDOUT during //Part 1// of session 2**__ **(12:30- 2:30 pm)**:

This handout is the lesson planning guide for you to add your examples in the right column. Email your completed Word documents (with examples) to ABRAZO@houstonisd.org for us to copy for your Learning Community session on AUgust 4th.



**FYI** - In the program book the participants will have a copy with the right column 'blank' to use as a place to take notes. Participants will __not__ have the Powerpoint mini-slides/note-pages for this session.

**3)** __**Part 2 of session 2 (2:45 - 4:00 pm)**__**:** After the Part 1 presentation, give your group a 10 minute break. When you return you should immediately launch into your model lesson. Try not to "break character". You should act as the teacher and treat the participants as students. (Let the teachers you are modeling as a teacher in the calssroom.) Your model lesson should include the components discussed in the Power Point. As much as possible, try to model first day's of school procedures as well as a learning segment. <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Spend the last 15 minutes of the session debriefing the model lesson and answering any questions participants might have.

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">PLEASE SAVE THE POWER POINT AND THE LESSON PLANNING GUIDE/Handout WITH YOUR CONTENT AREA/GRADE LEVEL for your use to edit.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">If you have any questions, please contact Vanessa Nieto Gomez (vnietogo@houstonisd.org) or Gail McGee (gmcgee@houstonisd.org)

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">THANK YOU AND GOOD LUCK! <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">