While there are multiple ways to plan effectively in your teaching practice, research tells us that there are certain things that you can do when planning and teaching lessons that will promote students’ learning.
Orienting: Explaining the objectives and success criteria of task/lesson.
Structuring: Structuring and highlighting material through overviews and outlines, clear transitions and regular reviews throughout lesson.
Questioning: Asking questions which open up the dialogue in the classroom and which unpack students’ understandings.
Modelling: Teaching students to use and/or develop strategies for solving problems.
Application: Providing practice activities while monitoring progress and providing feedback.
Interactions: Focusing teaching interactions on creating a knowledge- and learning-centred, assessment-rich environment accompanied by high expectations, and providing opportunities for students tutoring and helping each other, and giving feedback to facilitate each other’s learning