Planning Resources
Critical Questions to Ask When Planning
The four critical questions that drive planning conversations are:
- What do we want students to learn? (Planning and pacing instruction)
- How will we know if they have learned it? (Collect data)
- What do we do if they do not learn it? (Intervention)
- What do we do if they do learn it? (Enrichment)
PDR2: Cycle of Continuous Improvement and Learning
Professional development and classroom instruction follows the PDR2 Model for continuous improvement. This model facilitates purposeful and deliberate planning, teaching, and learning. This framework can be used to examine the effectiveness of a lesson, a unit, and professional development. Educators can use this framework individually, but ideally it is being used collaboratively at grade level or staff meetings.
- Plan: Teachers work collaboratively to plan CCSS units, lessons, and instructional strategies designed to address the various needs of diverse students:
- Deliver: Teachers implement planned instruction. Implementation is monitored for feedback and support.
- Reflect: Teachers work collaboratively to examine implementation. The reflection includes analysis of student work and learning results as well as to the degree that strategies were implemented as plan.
- Revise: Teachers used what they have learned during delivery and reflection to cycle back to the planning phase, either to plan for a new unit or lesson or to refine and improve the strategies or their implementation in the current unit or lesson