Big Picture Lesson Plan

Draw your students into full participation by issuing a student-facing lesson plan to jazz up the sharing of learning intentions and to provide a capture and record worksheet of their progress and understanding during the lesson. Use eye=catching Smartart graphics to activate dual coding and prompt discussion of prior learning to address differentiation to and address Ausubel’s guiding principle, "The most important single factor influencing learning is what the learner already knows. Ascertain this and teach accordingly" The Big Picture Lesson Plan also includes a simple template to replace traditional teacher lesson planning in the style of a five minute lesson plan.