It takes time to teach

Today in E325, we discussed the detailed process behind teaching a lesson to students.  The diagrams and lists created might shock someone who thinks this is a simple process.  The days of deciding on a cute theme and teaching it for weeks, implementing cute art projects, and giving bubble-type quizzes are over.  In the education field today, teachers go through a process behind each and every lesson they teach.  The first step is planning the curriculum.  The next step is instructing the students and the final step is assessing the lesson.  This process repeats itself as the year progresses.  Each step has a list of tasks involved in it.  This diagram shows a simplified version of what we discussed in class:

I thought the most important things we discussed were the concept of knowing what you want to teach, following through with your plan to teach, check for understanding, prepare for speedbumps, and properly assess not only the students but you as a teacher.  As I thought about the planning process, I explored some resources to assist in the process.  Here are some sites worth exploring to enhance the planning, teaching, and assessing process:

This site has great strategies for enhancing a subject and ideas for teaching:
http://www.readingquest.org/strat/

A graphic organizer is always a good planning tool:
http://www.graphic.org/index.html

A site with great templates and planning tools:
http://www.lessonplans4teachers.com/templates.php

A variety of assessment ideas:
http://www.lessonplans4teachers.com/templates.php


Hope these are good resources for others too!