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Six Lesson Plan Formats, Andrew P. Johnson Jan 2017

Six Lesson Plan Formats, Andrew P. Johnson

Elementary and Literacy Education Department Publications

Good lessons and effective learning experiences do not magically appear. They must be planned. This chapter describes how to design and plan six different types of lessons: basic lesson plan, concept lesson plan, skills lesson plan, writing lesson plan, reading lesson plan, and discovery learning lesson plan.


The Schema-Building Lesson Plan, Andrew P. Johnson Jan 2016

The Schema-Building Lesson Plan, Andrew P. Johnson

Elementary and Literacy Education Department Publications

There are a variety of lesson plan forms. Different kinds of lessons call for different kinds of lesson plan formats. This article describes what I believed to be the basic elements necessary to effectively teach a schema-building lesson. A schema (plural is schemata) is an organized body of knowledge in our head. If long term memory were a file cabinet, schemata would be the individual file folders.