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Instructional planning  Process by which someone (usually a teacher) decides how best to select and organize a learning experience to maximize both teacher and student achievement and satisfaction.
Formal curriculum  What the state and school district expect will be taught and learned.
Taught curriculum  What is actually taught by teachers. Includes the formal curriculum and whatever is done to supplement or complement it.
Instructional objective  Statement of concepts, attitudes, or skills that students are expected to achieve by the end of some period of instruction.
Unit plan  A plan for learning a major section or topic within a course. Usually learned over a period of weeks and limited to one topical area.
Block plans  Daily plans that clearly show the scope and sequence of a learning unit as well as general objectives, learning activities, evaluation, and resources.
Lesson plan  A guide to teaching a lesson that includes lesson objectives, how the lesson will be taught and how student learning and satisfaction will be assessed.
Set induction  Planning an introductory activity that will capture students' attention, help them see the purpose and value of what is to be learned, and relate what they are to learn to that which they already know.
Anticipatory set  An introductory activity that will capture students' attention, help them see the purpose and value of what they are to learn, and relate what they are to learn to what students already know.







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