1. How to use SAS to develop lesson plans for next year
Lesson Plans and SAS
How to use SAS to develop lesson plans for next year

2. Objectives Familiarize faculty with lesson plan format for next year.
Connect Standards Aligned System (SAS) with lesson plan development.
Develop one lesson plan from the content that you taught this week.
Compose questions about lesson plans
and SAS.

3. Schedule Lesson plan format introduced and discussed
Connect SAS to lesson plan
Development of a lesson plan- will break into grade levels
Return to whole group at 11:20
A lesson plan will need to be handed into Dr. Johnston at the end of this workshop.

4. Things needed for this workshop
Handouts
Lesson Plan Template/Explanation Form
Essential Questions Handout
Cheat Sheet for Lesson Planning and SAS
Computer
Quick Flip Questions for Critical Thinking
Your own lesson plans and materials from
your class this week.

5. Introduction Fact: Why am I giving this presentation?
Next year: Lesson plans required to be handed in.
Elementary – Reading Block
Why am I giving this presentation?
Attended conferences concerning SAS
Evidence of SAS is expected to be in your lesson plans
I am to connect SAS with lesson plan development.

6. Here we go…… Let’s dig in!
Handout: Lesson Plan Explanation and Examples
Top of the Lesson Plan
Teacher:
Mrs. Reath
Lesson:
Personification
Total Time:
1- 90 minute period

7. Standards What needs to be included?
The number should be included and the standard should be written out.

8. Standards
Example:
1.3.4.D Identify literary devices in selected readings (e.g., personification, simile, alliteration, metaphor).

9. Standards Resources to help you:
SAS website (Clear Standards, Vertical Viewer)

10. Eligible Content What needs to be included?
The number should be included and the standard should be written out

11. Eligible Content Example:
R4.B Identify, explain, and/or interpret examples of personification in text.

12. Eligible Content Resources to help you
SAS website (Learning Progressions, Vertical Viewer, Curriculum Framework)

13. Essential Questions What needs to be included?
You need to have at least one essential question in your lesson plan

14. What is an Essential Question
An essential question is the essence of what your students will examine and learn in the course of their study. Essential questions stem from your planning around what you want your students to deeply understand about the concept they are studying, and how they can apply their understanding of the foundational “big ideas” to their world.

15. Essential Questions…….
Are worth asking and are meaningful
Cannot be answered by a yes or no
Engage students in real life problem-solving
Spark our curiosity and sense of wonder
Require a high level of thinking
Are more about learning than teaching
Challenge students to demonstrate that they understand the relationship between what they are learning and larger world issues.
Involve thinking, not just answering
Cannot be answered in one answer

16. How do I write Essential Questions?
Use a reasonable number (1-3 per unit of study)
Use the key words: how, what impact, what effect/affect, why, if, etc.
Design questions that reflect the standards and “big ideas of your content area.”
Sequence your questions so they lead naturally from one to another.
Remember: If a question is too specific, or can be answered with a few words or a sentence, it is probably not essential.

17. Essential Questions Examples
Literacy
How does the interaction with text provoke thinking and response?
How can our knowledge and use of the research process promote lifelong learning?
How do we think while reading in order to understand and respond?
How does interaction with text provoke thinking and response?

18. Example from Lesson Plan
How will understanding the use of figurative language (personification) help me comprehend poetry and other texts?

19. Essential Questions Resources to help you:
Handouts from today to explain how to write essential questions
Some can be found on SAS in the curriculum framework
Some textbooks contain essential questions.

20. Objectives: SWBAT… SWBAT: Students will be able to:
What needs to be included?
You need to have at least one objective.

21. Objectives
Examples:
Students will be able to (SWBAT) identify the use of personification in poetry.
SWBAT assign human characteristics to objects.

22. Objectives Resources to help you Flip Book given out last year
Bloom’s Taxonomy
Many textbooks have objectives at the beginning of the chapter
Lessons on SAS have objectives listed.

23. Materials What needs to be included?
You should include all materials in your lesson. They can be listed in a bulleted or numbered form.

24. Materials Example: Porches by Valerie Worth
What Did? By Shel Silverstein
Chairs by Valerie Worth
Give a Thing a Personality guidelines
Vocabulary page
SMARTBoard File for personification

25. Materials Resources to help you
SAS website (Instruction, Voluntary Model Curriculum)
Books
Supplemental materials

26. Procedures What needs to be included?
You need to have a detailed explanation of your procedures for the lesson.
They do not have to be scripted, but you must have enough detail so that someone could follow what you are doing in the lesson.
In order words, you should not be the only person that can understand your lesson plans.
They can also be in bulleted or numbered form.

27. Procedure
Example:
Define personification as the assignment of human characteristics to things. What smaller word is in the word personification that will help you remember what personification means?
Read aloud the following poem: Chairs by Valerie Worth.
…..

28. Procedure Resources to help you:
SAS website (Instruction, Voluntary Model Curriculum, Materials and Resources)
Books
Supplemental materials
Other lesson plans and plan books

29. Homework What needs to be included?
Your homework should reflect and extend from your lesson.
You need to have a short explanation of the homework that is assigned.

30. Homework Example: Reinforcement Activity:
Students will pick one object from their home and complete “Give a Thing a Personality” to be used as a writing organizer

31. Homework Resources to help you
SAS website (Instruction, Voluntary Model Curriculum, Materials and Resources)
Books
Supplemental Materials.

32. Assessments What needs to be included?
This needs to be a short explanation of how you will be assessing your students for this lesson.
You need to differentiate between informal and formal.

33. Assessments
Example:
Informal: Underline examples of personification on SMARTBoard or individual copies of poem, provide their own examples of personification

34. Assessments Resources to help you
SAS website: Assessment creator, Classroom Diagnostic Tool (CDT)
Books
Poetry
Supplemental materials

35. Reflection/Modification
This is an optional part of the lesson plan.
It is a section in which you can comment on how the lesson went.
You can list any changes you would make for the next time you taught this lesson.

36. Reflection/Modification
This is an optional part of the lesson plan.
It is a section in which you can comment on how the lesson went.
You can list any changes you would make for the next time you taught this lesson.
Example:
If SMARTBoard doesn’t work, discuss poems with students as they look at their own copies.
Differentiate in Guided Reading Groups

37. Extras that can be included:
Vocabulary
Big Ideas
Concepts
Competencies

38. Questions / Comments