The Lesson Cycle

-Focus
-Instructional Delivery
-Guided Practice
-Independent Practice
-Closure
Part 2. Focus

 Frames the learning, makes connections, gets them

excited
 May be a formative assessment (ex. KWL)
 Critical Factors we learn by
 Engagement

 Coherence (prior knowledge)

 Repetition (priming, pre-exposure, previewing)
Part 3: Instructional Delivery
 Gives the students the content, skills, definition,
process, ability to be successful on the assessment
 Critical Factors or rules we learn by are
 Engagement

 Coherence

 Input quantity

Don’t forget checks for understanding

and time for processing!
Part 4: Guided Practice
 Provides opportunities for
processing and practice without
grading
  practice
We do it together; we get
immediate feedback for error  + repeat
correction!  + revise
  + reflect
Critical Factors
=LEARN!
 Coherence (mental models)
 Error Correction
 Repetition (reviewing, revising)

Formative Assessment
Part 5: Independent Practice
  Practice makes
Provides opportunities to use
perfect, but it must
the lesson content in a variety be perfect practice!
of ways: cooperative projects,
independent assignments,
tests…

 Critical Factors for learning

 Coherence (mental models)
 Error correction
 Repetition (reviewing,
revising) Summative Assessment
Part 6: Closure

 This is the additional  Journals

opportunity to check for  Cooperative learning
understanding, reflect,
 Note cards
revise, review…
 This sums up the learning.
 How did we do?
Fundamental 5 Overview