University of Delaware Common Core Aligned Lesson Plan
And Guiding Questions
Subject(s): ______________
Grade: ______________
Date(s): _______________
Time: _______________
Check one:
____Coplanned ____Independently Planned
Common Core Learning Standard(s) Addressed:
Have you identified integration of multiple content
standards?
Learning Target(s)/Objective(s):
What will students know and be able to do as a result of this lesson?
Are these learning target(s)/objective(s) appropriate based on your prior assessment/knowledge of students’
understandings? Are your targets/objectives observable and measurable?
Assessment Approaches:
Evidence:
What evidence from your assessments are you
List formative/summative assessment
using to determine who gets it and who needs additional
approaches, tools, and strategies
instruction?
Assessments
I get it
I kind of get
I don’t get it
1.
1.
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1.
2.
2.
2.
2.
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Justification:
What evidence-based practice did you research, learn about in a UD course or a professional
development, or find in a curriculum guide that drove your thinking as you planned some aspect of this lesson?
Focus on one aspect and cite the specific source.
Connecting to students’ lives and prior academic learning:
How are your instructional decisions
related to personal/cultural/community assets of your students and their prior academic learning?
Activities/Tasks:
Differentiation:
What learning experiences will
How are you selecting supports
students engage in? How will you use these learning
that are tied to the learning objectives and addresses
experiences and/or their student products as formative
similar group of students’ needs and specific
assessment opportunities?
individuals’ needs? Regardless of IEP/504 plans.
Consider the following:
Sequence the key learning tasks for daily instruction.
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Consider how you will build connections from
Process: How will my instructional delivery,
prior knowledge to new knowledge
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materials, or students’ engagement in instructional
Include how you will help students make
activities differ?
connections
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Identify the language demands embedded in the
Product: Which options or types of assessments
lesson
might you consider for various learners to
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Consider how you will help students at
demonstrate their understanding of the objectives?
different academic and language proficiency
(Fast Finisher Work?)
levels develop this academic language
Introduction/Activating/Launch Strategies may
include:
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Capture students’ interest/hook
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Review prior knowledge