Chunking Lesson Plans®– Using Precious Teaching Time to Reach More Learners
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The biggest obstacle that teachers face when implementing Differentiated Instruction, Common Core, or when delivering interventions to struggling learners or students with special education needs in their classrooms is lack of time. They don’t have the time they need to get everything that must be done accomplished. Consequently, they rush to deliver information as quickly as possible and fail to reach all levels of learners and learning styles as well as their students with special education needs.
Most teachers agree that they can teach a new concept to five capable, on grade level, students, in a small group, in ten minutes. Those same teachers also agree that, when they direct teach new material to the whole class, a portion of the class understands that new material after the first ten minutes of instruction while other students are still struggling.
Tradition would dictate that we go over the new material again, and maybe even again, in the hopes that those who haven’t “gotten it” will, but we know that rarely happens. What if, instead, we used real-time assessment and creative grouping techniques to focus our limited teaching time in a more productive way?
Chunking Lesson Plans® is an innovative new way of lesson planning, designed by Susan Fitzell. This full day program introduces the concept of chunked lesson plans, explores best practice and brain-based teaching strategies for chunking, and shows teachers how to use their precious classroom time in ways that are more productive, reach more students, and increase achievement! Teachers learn to teach their lessons in manageable CHUNKS, allow time for students to PROCESS that information with high yield, researched based methods, and then ASSESS student achievement at the end of a lesson to adjust the next lesson.
This program includes time for teachers to prepare actual chunked lesson plans that they can use in their classes!
If your state has adopted Common Core State Standards (CCSS) or Next Generation Science or Social Studies Standards, Chunking Lesson Plans® provides a solid framework to implement highly effective lesson plans to meet those standards.
Preferred Program Length: 360 minutes
Target Audience: General classroom teachers, special educators, and specialists in the classroom, Special Education Needs (SEN)
Grade-Level Appropriateness: All grade levels
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