Lesson Plan Self-assessment Rubric

Sounds great Needs a bit more Considerable development

clarification still needed

Objectives There are well-defined, There are learning I don't have clearly defined
observable, realistic, and objectives, but they're learning objectives. This is my
valuable lesson objectives. still a little vague. first culture lesson plan, and
I'm not sure exactly what I
want to accomplish with it.

Culture After this activity, students This activity will help This activity will expose
will better understand their students to better students to elements
own culture, another culture, understand their culture, associated with a particular
or both, and they will be able another culture, or both, culture, but it will not lead
to explain this to others. but they may not be them to understand their own
aware of it or be able to or others' cultures in a way
explain it to others. that would increase their
intercultural competence.

Critical This activity leads students This activity leads It would be easy for a student
thinking through steps that require students through steps to participate in this activity
critical thinking, gets them to that require critical without exercising critical
reflect on their thought thinking, but it does not thinking.
process through reflection, require students to
and is likely to lead to reflect on their thought
similarly conscientious process.
thought processes in other
contexts.

Explicit The cultural and critical Both culture and critical The elements of culture and
instructions thinking elements of the thinking are discussed to critical thinking are never
lesson are explained in an some extent in the explicitly discussed during the
explicit fashion using clear lesson. lesson.
terms that the students will
understand. These
explanations are framed in a
way that will facilitate the
students applying this
learning to new contexts in
the future.

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 Sounds great Needs a bit more clarification Considerable
development still needed

Enough Students have plenty of time A little more time than usual It will be tight to get
time to perform all of the tasks, is allowed for reflection and everything done on time
including thinking and discussion, but there isn't within this one lesson.
reflecting deeply at certain much flexibility built into the
points in the lesson. The lesson. If students don't reach
lesson allows for flexibility so the depth of reflection
that if the students need desired at the first pass, I'll
more time for a task, they can just have to keep moving
have more time. forward with the lesson.

Relevant to The lesson starts with There is one point at which a The lesson does not
the concepts that are familiar and bridge between the students' provide a bridge between
students’ important to the students and lives and the lesson topic is the students' lives and
lives builds from there. established, but then the the topic of the lesson.
lesson takes a turn in another
direction instead of
continuing to build off of this
connection.

Realistic This activity can be done with This lesson will work in my This lesson would never
the students I work with, work context if my students work at the school that I
within the time restrictions I are in good form that day, no work at.
have, and aligns with other one gets confused, we don't
realities of my workplace. get side-tracked by
interesting topics that come
up, and my "old school"
colleagues don't find out what
I'm doing.

Transitions The different parts of the There's a little bit of We jump from one thing
and lesson plan make sense everything in this lesson, and I to another during the
coherence together and build off of each will have to find ways during lesson, and the students
other. the lesson to help students would have to reflect
understand how it all fits deeply on how everything
together. fits together.