Focused Lesson Planning

Urban Fraefel is Professor at the School of Education Northwestern Switzerland and book author. His teaching, research, and development activities focus on teaching and learning, core practices, practice-based teacher education, and university-school partnerships.

• ForewordPrefaceChapter 1: The approach in brief Chapter 2: The primacy of impact and the wisdom of practitionersChapter 3: Rethinking conventions of lesson planningChapter 4: The key principle of planning units “backward”Chapter 5: Planning a unitChapter 6: Planning a lesson “backward”Chapter 7: Planning lessons by and with student teachersChapter 8: What goals for units? What expected results? What tasks?Chapter 9: From unit to lesson: Two goals per lesson, and assessmentChapter 10: More on assessmentEpilogue: What is the plan?References

Professor Fraefel has created a text that is of great service to the teacher education community. He carefully explains the processes involved in having novices “backward plan” their lessons to foster thoughtful and engaging student understanding in lessons that are aligned with Standards. His vision of teaching sees planning for learning as a realistic and holistic experience that focuses on student-generated ideas and which calls for flexibility, openness and continued reflection. Its workbook nature directly integrates readers into its narrative and promotes their development and growth in a friendly, nurturing and upbeat manner.