Want to focus your efforts so that you can develop great constructivist lessons?

The images below provide links to information and activities that are designed to help you create a constructivist lesson plan that assesses your students’ current state, grabs their attention, defines the lesson objective, establishes teacher input and discussion questions, and outlines the practice, application, and assessment of the lesson. Click on each image below to see a definition, sub-steps, and multi-media examples.

Dr. Dils' Interactive Lesson Planner^©

"Point A""SWBAT" "Point B"

After clicking on the above links, you may want to click here for examples of completed lessons following the above model.

To help organize your ideas, you may want to print out the following and write in the ideas developed by using the above interactive steps [or click here for word document to print] (and, or launch PowerPoint and create your lesson directly on the slides):

I.  Point A :

II.  Bell Ringer:

II. A. Anticipated Student Response:

II. B. Transition to Purpose:

III.  Purpose - SWBAT:

IV. Input, anticipatory sets, anticipated scaffolding:

V.  Practice/Application:

VI. Closure: 

VII.  Point B:

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