"Powerful Lesson Planning is an important book, offering essential guidance in the highly complex task of lesson planning. In this age of content standards and the high-stakes assessment of those standards, the teacher′s challenge in planning for instruction is more profound than ever."
--From the Foreword by Charlotte Danielson

Revitalize your current practices, expand your repertoire of approaches, and improve learning for students!

Every teacher′s goal is to create a rich instructional environment for their students, and thoughtful, informed lesson planning is a key element in that process. Janice Skowron′s jump-start of a book offers novice and experienced teachers step-by-step, essential guidance in this challenging and oftentimes highly complex task. It brings into focus the decisions teachers face as they plan instruction and provides four progressively complex and nuanced models: basic, integrated, differentiated, and problem-based instruction. Descriptive information, numerous examples, and tools such as key questions, planning guides, and templates help educators develop proficiency in planning instruction.

This revised edition will:

• Help teachers incorporate the best practices for lesson planning
• Build the lesson-planning skills and repertoire of new teachers
• Revitalize instruction for veteran teachers
• Strengthen teachers′ abilities to plan standards-based lessons
• Help teachers focus on assessment in the initial phases of lesson planning

Powerful Lesson Planning will increase teachers′ competence and confidence--and help them master the skills needed to advance their practice and improve learning for all students.