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ED109

Preparing and Creating Lesson Plans

This course will inform you of how careful lesson planning can help to ensure increased student engagement. Proper lesson planning will enable you to teach effectively and efficiently, and ultimately help students meet learning objectives. The information in this course will provide the framework for instructional development enabling you to properly structure a detailed, well thought-out lesson plan.

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This course provides you with a lifelong peer-to-peer learning opportunity through a specific Performance Group created within the Career Ed Lounge, a learning community of career education professionals. This allows you to learn and share with your peers at any time you want, even after you complete the course.

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Course Testimonials

"Wish this class was available 30 years ago! It would have made syllabus writing much easier."

"Great course and great learning tool!"

"This helped me understand purposes even better in lesson planning."

"Great course This course reinforces some of my practices as it pertains to lesson planning"

"This was exceptional information. I love how it is so organized and easy to follow. Thanks!"

"A very good learning experience for the instructor. It shows how technology really works with learning."

"This was very helpful and I really feel that it gave great insight. "

"Very much appreciated all the relevant information and proper definitions to the teaching strategies and work that goes into my daily teaching activities. It helped me to look at the students who need more attention than others because of the wording and definition's on lessons plans. It also showed me that there are some very poor lesson plans that are confusing and hard to follow and define. I will share and put into practice the many tools that have been made available from this course. Thank you."

"This was an invaluable course for me! I learned so many things here which I intend to use at the earliest possible time in my classes."

"This course was very relevent & I connected well."

"Thank you for another interactive course that leaves with ideas and increased motivation for teaching in Higher Ed. :) "

"This lesson was very instrumental in the learning of preparing a lesson plan. It gave valuable insight to adequately prepare, research information for lesson plans and how to grow in developing engaging materials for the classroom. "

"Very detailed and informative course. Learned a lot about planning the lectures."

Course Objectives

Module 1: Preparation for Lesson Planning

Explain how to select content.
Identify how to learn about your audience.
Apply time management strategies and practices.
Demonstrate organizational skills for gathering and utilizing resources.
Describe examples of finding out what your students already know.

Module 2: Overview of Lesson Plans

Learn and describe the components of lesson plan formatting.
Apply rationale to a lesson plan.
Demonstrate the goals of objectives and standards.
Apply and incorporate objectives and standards into a lesson plan.
Demonstrate proper documentation of a lesson plan.
Define the importance of documenting a lesson plan.

Module 3: Learning Objectives and Standards

Apply all appropriate levels of the Taxonomy of Learning.
Define forms of knowledge.
Produce and create measurable objectives.
Understand and define why standards are important.
Identify the importance of sharing career clusters and pathways.

Module 4: Support Material, Notes, and Assessment

Identify and define different classroom support materials.
Apply different classroom support materials.
Understand and prepare to utilize lecture notes.
Describe examples of how and why to apply different forms of support materials.
Define different forms of assessment.

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Course Format

Can Start Anytime
Self-paced (within course enrollment timeframe)
4 Hours of Activities

Completion Requirements

Study Course Content
Pass ALL Required Quizzes

Digital Badge & Certificate of Completion

4 Hours of Continuing Education
Awarded upon successful completion of course

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Certification Credits

This course provides a Certificate of Completion with 4 hours of continuing education credits.
This course provides credit toward the Certified Higher Education Professional (CHEP) credential in the following specialization area(s):
- CHEP in Teaching
This course provides credit toward the continuing education requirements for CHEPs in all areas of specialization.

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