![]() Why would teachers spend SO much time planning? Planning is a critical practice of effective teaching. Effective teaching includes reflective decision-making, meeting provincial standards, recording of your work, supports your professional growth, and most importantly, teaching your students knowledge. The knowledge that you are building with you students needs to include: procedural, conceptual, and strategic knowledge. One of the most effective ways to begin planning for scientific inquiry is to ask an open ended question that scaffolds student's prior learning to the concepts in the question. Planning is multilayered. It includes a conceptual framework for year plans, unit plans, lesson plans, and daily plans. Before creating a conceptual framework, we need to consider the following;
I find my planning easier to start with the year plans and work down to the unit plans. Once I have constructed a conceptual framework for my unit plans, creating daily plans fall into a logical sequence of instruction with related activities. To keep my lesson planning focused, I reflect on the following questions:
Citation: Gustafson, B. J., M., & Gustafson, B. J. (2013). A Conceptual Approach to Teaching Children About Science, Technology, and Society (2nd Ed.) Edmonton: Ripon Publishing. Pg 115-137.
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