Effective Lesson Planning

Plan and deliver effective lessons! This workshop takes participants step by step through the process of lesson design and provides an opportunity to create a lesson plan using the OTAN Online Lesson Plan Builder. Participants will learn up-to-date strategies for planning lessons using a combination of the WIPPEA stages and “backward design.” Using the information and skills taught in this workshop, participants will find that lesson planning becomes a quick, easy process.

GOAL AND OBJECTIVES

Goal

The goal of this workshop is to provide teachers a model for designing effective lesson plans. The model supports the use of the OTAN Online Lesson Plan Builder, available at http://www.adultedlessons.org.

Objectives

By the end this workshop, participants will be able to:

1. Identify steps of the lesson plan cycle, with emphasis on backward design;
2. Use OTAN’s Online Lesson Plan Builder; and
3. Create learner-centered lesson plans.