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This eye-opening planning guide rips off that shroud and exposes the links for all to see. There is a way for you to link instruction to student outcomes and this planning guide provides access to that process. The easy-to-follow guide leads you through the steps for developing lesson plans that link instruction with student learning.
This step-by-step guide exposes seven diverse types of links from pre-planning through summative assessment. They are:
Reflections on how-to develop, change, or improve your practice
Pre-planning links that connect prior student achievement, standards, and objectives
Lesson plan links that connect three types of assessments and learning activities
Grade book links that connect assessment and activities to objectives and standards
Professional learning extensions that expand your professional knowledge
An On-Going support plan that provides a "Plan B" option
A self-assessment that links instruction with student outcomes
Action Research, the definitive destination. These are the activities of Beyond Implementation: A Planning Guide and Grade Book. Its purpose, to learn from student outcomes, to predict what happens if you change one aspect of an activity, to test that prediction, and analyze test results.
Your journey starts at the end of the beginning, Preparing Effective Lessons (Ray, 2019). Begin by examining summative test outcomes. Then identify an activity whose results indicate students need to improve. Next, select one aspect of it to adapt and predict how it will affect student outcomes. Use the activity to test the prediction. Then analyze results.
Beyond Implementation: A Planning Guide and Grade Book is for teachers. This planning guide provides an element that is often missing from traditional planning guides; links to future learning. This guide allows readers to go confidently where few teachers have gone before.