Direct Instruction Lesson Plan Template

Teachers: Subject:
Kevin Rosendale Sustainability/
Common Core State Standards:
Integrate visual information (e.g., in charts, graphs, photographs,
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.6-8.7
videos, or maps) with other information in print and digital texts.
Objective (Explicit):
Students will understand topic of sustainability and poverty while integrating visual information with other
information in print and digital text.
Evidence of Mastery (Measurable):
Include a copy of the lesson assessment.
Provide exemplar student responses with the level of detail you expect to see.
Assign value to each portion of the response.

Students will present a poster at the end of the lesson on the topic of poverty with specific content
knowledge

Sub-objectives, SWBAT (Sequenced from basic to complex):

How will you review past learning and make connections to previous lessons?
What skills and content are needed to ultimately master this lesson objective?
How is this objective relevant to students, their lives, and/or the real world?
Students will be able to integrate visual information regarding the topic of poverty as a sustainability
issue.
Key vocabulary: Materials:
Poverty Poster
Sustainability Laptops (research)
Systems thinking Paper
Futures Thinking Pencil
Craft supplies
Opening (state objectives, connect to previous learning, and make relevant to real life)
How will you activate student interest?
How will you connect to past learning?
How will you present the objective in an engaging and student-friendly way?
How will you communicate its importance and make the content relevant to your students?
Okay students today we will be wrapping up our sustainability section with preparing
our presentations on the issues of poverty, and how they are affecting our community.
Instructional Input

Teacher Will: Student Will:

How will you model/explain/demonstrate all What will students be doing to actively capture and
knowledge/skills required of the objective? process the new material?
What types of visuals will you use? How will students be engaged?
How will you address misunderstandings or
common student errors?
How will you check for understanding?
How will you explain and model behavioral
expectations?
Is there enough detail in this section so that
another person could teach it?

Okay class I am going to review what weve learned the Students will be engaged and active listeners for this part of the
past four days. lesson.
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 Who can tell me what poverty is? And how its a
sustainability topic?

What systems or events have we seen in the past where

this has been an issue? Think back to our history
lessons.

Thats right class all these things tie into having poverty be
a sustainability topic. Im going to model how I want
everyone in their groups to present their presentation at
the end of today.
Co-Teaching Strategy
Which co-teaching approach will you use to maximize student achievement?
Mentor teacher will be walking around making sure students are on task and giving full attention

Differentiation Strategy
What accommodations/modifications will you include for specific students?
Do you anticipate any students who will need an additional challenge?

Teacher Will: Student Will:

How will you ensure that all students have multiple
opportunities to practice new content and skills?
What types of questions can you ask students as
you are observing them practice?
How/when will you check for understanding?
How will you provide guidance to all students as
they practice?
How will you explain and model behavioral
expectations?
Is there enough detail in this section so that
another person could facilitate this practice?
How will students practice all knowledge/skills required
of the objective, with your support, such that they
continue to internalize the sub-objectives?
How will students be engaged?
How will you elicit student-to-student interaction?
How are students practicing in ways that align to
independent practice?

Okay class, now we are going to get into our Students will be in their groups, beginning to work
Guided Practice

groups, and begin planning the presentation. on the presentation, and be engaged in futures and
We will have plenty of time to come up with an systems thinking.
idea, and figure out how you want to approach
this topic. Make sure you are utilizing your
groups members, and you are applying some
of the systems and futures thinking we have
been discussing about throughout the lesson.

Co-Teaching Strategy
Which co-teaching approach will you use to maximize student achievement?
Mentor teacher will be walking around making sure students are on task and giving full attention

Differentiation Strategy
What accommodations/modifications will you include for specific students?
Do you anticipate any students who will need an additional challenge?
How can you utilize grouping strategies?

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 Teacher Will:
How will you plan to coach and correct during this
practice?
How will you provide opportunities for remediation and
extension?
How will you clearly state and model academic and
behavioral expectations?
Did you provide enough detail so that another person
could facilitate the practice?
Student Will:
How will students independently practice the knowledge and
skills required by the objective?
How will students be engaged?
How are students practicing in ways that align to
assessment?
How are students using self-assessment to guide their own
learning?
How are you supporting students giving feedback to one
another?

Okay class lets bring this back together. We Students will be resenting in groups, as well as
are going to start sharing out now on poverty taking notes on other presentations and writing
as a sustainability issue, again remember how down one praise and one takeaway for each group.
we are trying to tie this into futures and
systems thinking!
Independent Practice

Also during each presentation on a lined

piece of paper I want everyone writing down
one takeaway you got and one piece of praise
you have for them.

First group is up!

*I will be giving students feedback after each

presentation point out a positive and an area of
growth.*

This is the assessments of each students or

groups knowledge of the topic as well.
Co-Teaching Strategy
Which co-teaching approach will you use to maximize student achievement?
Mentor teacher will be walking around making sure students are on task and giving full attention

Differentiation Strategy
What accommodations/modifications will you include for specific students?
Do you anticipate any students who will need an additional challenge?
Mentor teacher will be walking around making sure students are on task and giving full attention
Closing/Student Reflection/Real-life connections:
How will students summarize and state the significance of what they learned?
Why will students be engaged?

Great Work class! You all had some great presentations that really dig into how poverty
is a sustainable issue, and how we can take steps in our own community to better our
community in terms of poverty, and sustainable development.