Standards-Based Instructional Planning and Designing: Creating Blueprints for Delivering a Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum (Curriculum Mapping, Unit Planning, and Lesson Planning)

15 Professional Development Hours
January 27–28, 2009 in Phoenix
7:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. Daily

How can improved planning for and designing of classroom instruction maximize the academic achievement of your students?

Are you tired or stressed out from all the mounting pressures of this high accountability time we live in? This practical “how to” training will help you work smarter, not harder and without all the tension. You will improve your capacity for planning, designing and implementing a more intellectually rigorous and engaging instructional program leading to increased student understanding and mastery of Arizona’s academic standards. Facilitators will demonstrate a variety of practical tools to assist you in thinking from a macro level (standards and beyond) to a micro level (daily lesson plans). Topics to be addressed include:

• Curriculum Mapping (prioritizing, clustering and unwrapping performance objectives), Unit Planning, and Lesson Planning
• Big Ideas/Enduring Understandings, and Essential Questions
• Multiple and Varied Assessment Tools
• Rubrics and Scoring Guides
• Effective and Engaging Learning Experiences and Research-Based Instructional Strategies

This training will emphasize the old adage, “If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.” Thoughtful planning and designing of instruction yields higher teacher and student performance. Leave this powerful workshop with a comprehensive understanding of the strategic stages related to macro and micro planning based on our state’s academic standards.

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