Planning Process for Student Centered Lessons

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Overview

Designing meaningful learning is one of the most crucial and challenging components of education. Centering students in learning designs helps ensure high engagement and deep learning, while accounting for the variability of daily classroom life. In this workshop, participants will define what it means to design student-centered lessons, as well as explore planning best practices, no matter the format, template, or content.

Audience

This workshop is optimized for classroom teachers and para-educators, as well as instructional coaches. This is not meant to replace existing planning expectations by a district, but rather to unpack key ideas in backwards design.

Specifications

• 3 hours In-Person, or 2 hours Virtual
• Participants will need a computer with access to Zoom, a camera, a microphone, and stable Internet connectivity

Outcome

I design learning experiences that support students to meet learning targets.

Learning Experience

• Define components of student-centered design, including threaded learning, discourse, backwards planning, and tasks
  
• Explore scenario and strategy examples with a lesson checklist
  
• Build a plan for integrating student-centered design