Lesson Plans |
Prepares unit materials using the UbD/5E principles that meets curricular objectives and standards. |
Does Not Meet Expectations |
Meets Expectations |
Exceeds Expectations |
Quality, Preparation and Understanding of Teaching Model |
- Does not submit rough drafts in a timely manner.
- Poor quality.
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- Submits rough drafts by the due date.
- Neat and readable with some grammatical or typographical errors.
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- Submits rough drafts before the due date.
- Well organized and attractively presented with few errors.
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Stage 1 (Desired results) |
- Incomplete.
- Title: Lacking.
- Context: Lacking
- Project Description: Too brief.
- Rationale: Lacks reason.
- Standards: not appropriate.
- Essential Quest’s: Not connected.
- Understandings/
Learning: not Aligned to standards.
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- Contains all components.
- Title: appropriate.
- Context: Brief description of target audience.
- Project Description: Introduces the driving question and relation to topic questions.
- Rationale: States importance of the lesson to students.
- Standards: Appropriate for unit and grade level.
- Essential Questions: Connected to the each other.
- Understandings: Aligned to the standards
- Learning Outcomes: Aligned to the standards.
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- Detailed components.
- Title: creative.
- Context: Detailed description of the target audience.
- Project Description: Detailed summary of the unit and flow of lessons.
- Rationale: States lesson relevancy to students.
- Standards: Includes important key concepts.
- Essential Questions: Drive relevant learning.
- Understandings: Match essential questions.
- Learning Outcomes: Uses blooms taxonomy.
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Stage 2 (Assessment Evidence) |
- Lacks adequate assessment measures.
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- Provides diagnostic, formative, and summative assessments.
- Includes an alternative project or performance task assessment and grading rubric.
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- Provides various forms of assessing each concept/learning outcome.
- Project/performance task assesses each concept; well-designed rubric.
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Stage 3 |
- Lesson Details: limited
- Lesson Prep: incomplete materials/safety
- Differentiation: Lacks suggestions for successful participation of all students.
- Ineffective in engaging students.
- lacks an presentation/activity for student discovery.
- Does not allow students to explain the concepts.
- No opportunity for students to apply understanding.
- Does not evaluate whether students achieved lesson outcomes.
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- Lesson Details: Included
- Lesson Prep: Includes list of materials and appropriate safety.
- Differentiation: Includes suggestions for providing successful participation or learning for students with special needs.
- Generates interest; uncovers little of students pre-conceptions.
- Appropriate presentation/ cooperative activity with questions and anticipated answers to involve students.
- Includes probing questions, provides definitions if necessary, relates experience to concepts.
- Elaboration: Provides opportunity for students to apply concepts and connect to the project/performance task.
- Evaluation: Includes a mechanism for evaluating achievement of individual student learning toward lesson outcomes.
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- Lesson Details: Complete
- Lesson Prep: Complete materials list and safety considerations.
- Differentiation: Provides suggestions for successful participation and learning for students with special needs.
- Generates interest and curiosity; reveals pre-conceptions.
- Presentation/activities containing probing questions and anticipated responses that involve students
- Probes for students’ explanation; uses experiences to expand on concepts.
- Provides opportunity for students to apply/synthesize concepts to performance task.
- Includes ample mechanisms for evaluating student achievement toward lesson outcomes.
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Resources and Background Information |
- Weak learning progression.
- Provides minimal explanation of the concepts; includes few resources used to create the lesson.
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- Completes a good learning progression.
- Provides an explanation of the concepts covered in the lesson; Includes some resources used to create the lesson.
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- Completes a detailed learning progression.
- Provides a thorough explanation of the concepts covered in the lesson; Includes citations for all resources used to create the lesson.
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Post-Teaching Reflection |
- Presents a narrative with little/no reflection.
- Mention of how assessment data helps to improve the effectiveness of the lesson.
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- Attempts to present meaningful reflections that make connections.
- Somewhat describes how assessment data helps to improve the effectiveness of the lesson.
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- Presents meaningful and creative reflections with advanced connections.
- Explains how assessment data helps to improve the effectiveness of the lesson.
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