Standards-Based Lesson Plan: Planning Standards and Objectives

Introduction

v You have just been hired at a wonderful school that pays you gobs of money and now you are sitting in your brand new classroom just before the semester starts, thinking, “What the heck am I going to teach?” What would you do? How would you start?

v Luckily, the state of Hawaii has figured it out already for you. The Department of Education (DOE) has created the standards of learning that they want all students to demonstrate in all public schools. All you need to do in this assignment is to select and explain which standard and benchmark(s) that you would like to teach. Easier said than done?

v If you do not intend to become an educator, then the same idea applies except you would need to imagine what possible professional scenario you might be involved with that includes teaching somebody something. You just need to decide what you specifically want to teach. In this section, we go through the steps of how to decide what you want to teach and how to make it into a viable learning objective.

Instructions

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Step 1: Determine your case study’s specific grade level and discuss with your case study with a specific subject or topic (academic or non-academic) that you would like to teach and your case study would like to learn.

· Choose your grade level and subject carefully because you will be teaching this subject to your case study in the next assignment.

· For example, 4^th grade science, 2^nd grade English, 9^th grade math, how to throw a baseball, cooking Italian food, or speaking Japanese.

· If you are working with adults then you would state, “Adults, ELL”

· If you do not intend to teach students in a formal classroom, then you need to adjust this assignment to meet you and your case study’s interests and personal goals.

o For example, if you wish to be a counselor, you might state: 6^th grade student with “family problems” or if an administrator, 3^rd grade student “behavioral issues in class” Anything that represents a real-life challenge or situation that you might encounter as an educator or in your professional goals.

o If you are not sure about how your career goals fit can adjust to this assignment, then please contact me.

o Again, you can choose a non-academic subject!

Step 2: If you are doing a formal academic subject or professional topic, then choose one DOE/Professional standard and one benchmark [select only ONE each please] that you think that you would like to teach to your case study stated in step 1. If no standard or benchmark exists, then you will have to create your own. I only ask for one benchmark to keep it simple, HOWEVER, if you need to add another benchmark to your lesson, please do so. But keep in mind that each benchmark added needs to be assessed and graded (much more work for you!)

· Choose your standard and benchmark carefully

o Watch this video of how to decide on a standard/benchmark and make the action verb measurable

o Keep in mind you will be using the standard and benchmark throughout the next assignment as a context from which to understand what you learn in educational psychology. Please include the reference code for the standard and benchmark (e.g., LA 1.1.2 – which means Language arts for first grade, standard #1, benchmark #2) It is okay to copy and paste your standard and benchmark directly into your lesson plan template.

· If you are not teaching students in a formal classroom, then you will need to adjust the assignment to meet your interests and personal goals.

o This means that if you are a counselor or administrator, you will most likely have to look under the topic of Health. This topic deals with how to deal with students with depression, domestic violence, conflict resolution, etc – the kind of challenges that counselors and administrators have to deal with.

o You are also allowed to make up your own Standard and Benchmark if no exist. Just take a look at examples of Standards and Benchmarks to help word yours.

· To choose your ONE standard and ONE benchmark, please review the following resources. These resources will help guide you in determining which standard and benchmark to choose.

Read the Text

12^th Edition

o Read Text: p. 512-518 – Objectives for Learning

o Read Text: p. 518 – Guidelines: Using Instructional Objectives

11^th Edition

o Read Text: p. 457 – 461 – Objectives for Learning

o Read Text: p. 461 – Guidelines: Using Instructional Objectives

Instructor’s Resources

o Choosing the most important Standard and Benchmark

· Backward Design’s 40/40/40 Rule

· Bloom’s Taxonomy Handout (use this to ensure that benchmark has an action verb)

Surfing the Internet

o Choosing a DOE Standard and Benchmark

o DOE Hawaii Content and Performance Standards (Common Core)

1. http://standardstoolkit.k12.hi.us/

Review Examples

o Review student examples

· Student Example #1: LA.9.4.1

· Student Example #2: LA.2.1.7

· Student Example #3: HE.6.1.1 (counselor)

· Student Example #4: Hip Injury (nurse)

· Teacher Example (non-academic): Sailing

Step 3: Checking your benchmark for a measurable action verb: Watch the video in step 2 to ensure that you have a measurable action verb in your lesson!!!

· Place your ONE standard and ONE benchmark into a DOE Standards-Based Lesson Plan Template (Part I: Planning the Lesson – fill out A and B sections only)

Step 4: Explain in a brief paragraph why you chose the standard and benchmark that you would like to teach in your standards-based lesson and place your explanation after your benchmark listed under Part I – Section B. This explanation should revolve around why teaching the benchmark is so important for your case study to learn, not whether you like teaching the subject.

Step 5: Save a copy in a safe place on your computer. Don’t submit this assignment until the entire lesson (standard, assessment, and instruction) is completed – which will be later in the semester.

· You will be building upon this lesson plan in the next learning theory assignment, so you need to always have it available in a place you can easily find it. I would also suggest sending the lesson plan to yourself as an email attachment, so you can always have a copy on the internet available.