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This week’s installment are the Must-Master Teaching Skills for Lesson Preparation and Planning:
- Teacher maintains academic paperwork and assignments
- Teacher maintains non-academic paperwork and assignments
- Teacher implements professional development quickly and reflects on its impact
- Teacher knows how to review data
- Teacher knows how to use data to make instructional decisions
- Teacher knows how to use the district’s lesson planning system for planning
- Teacher turns in thorough lesson plans on time
- Teacher plans for differentiated instruction in every lesson
- Teacher has a strong understanding of her content and related topics
- Teacher carries out planned lessons
- Teacher incorporates new techniques appropriately
- Teacher lesson plans regularly with colleagues
- Teacher plans ahead for engagement, transitions
- Teacher has well-thought-out plan for physical, oral and written responses
- Teacher has planned for lesson product and attached an assessment component
- Teacher has a Plan B for when (not if!) the lesson goes awry
- Teacher has planned to teach the behavior expectations that the lesson requires