PD: EDI Lesson Planning for Math

EDI: Lesson Planning in Math

Explicit Direct Instruction is a strategic collection of instructional practices combined together to design and deliver well-crafted lessons that explicitly teach content, especially grade-level content, to all students.

​John R. Hollingsworth & Silvia E. Ybarra

​Session Objectives:

1. Participants will understand the EDI Circle template.

2. Participants will understand the EDI Lesson Design template.

3. Participants will understand the EDI Lesson Plan Format.

4. Participants will understand the EDI Lesson Plan Feedback Form. ​

PD | Lesson Planning In Math

EDI Circle Components​

1. Preparation

2. Presentation

3. Independent Practice

The EDI Circle summarizes EDI lesson design components and EDI lesson delivery strategies.

​Reteaching in EDI is real-time reteaching during the lesson while you are teaching.

In EDI we ask students to read the Objective at the start of the lesson. They learn what it means over the course of the lesson.

Content standards often contain several objectives, so you usually need to deconstruct the state standards into specific Learning Objective(s) that will match the Independent Practice.

In EDI you should explicitly provide the concept first and then use examples to illustrate the concept and reinforce its attributes.

Provide written definitions for students on a screen or whiteboard in front of the classroom, but they could be in the textbook or on worksheets.

In EDI, Skill Development and Guided Practice are done using the Rule of Two. When using textbooks, you need to locate matched problems for you and your students to work.

Provide clearly identified steps or procedures for solving any problem. If your textbook doesn't have clear steps, you will need to create them for your students.

For lesson closure, provide a skill-based problem, an assessment-type question or a summary closure with a word bank for students to use.

Multiple Choice

In which part of a lesson plan, would you most likely find a teacher showing a powerpoint explaining new vocabulary?

• Skill Development

• Concept Development

• Guided Practice

• Independent Practice

Multiple Choice

Which is not a component of a well-designed EDI lesson?

• Learning Objectives

• Finding Relevance

• Gathering Information

• Activating Prior Knowledge

EDI Lesson Design

1. ​Start the lesson by preparing your students to learn with a Learning Objective and Activating Prior Knowledge.

2. Then, present new content to your students.

   1. Concept Development - define new concepts and include labeled examples.

   2. Skill Development - model your thinking process while working variations of problems.

   3. Guided Practice - ​guide the whole class in working problems step-by-step.

3. Finally, allow students to work problems or answer questions to prove that they learned the content they were just taught (closure).

4. Independent Practice ​

Is everyone learning?

​When your textbook says " Show students how to work the sample problem," know that this is Skill Development.

​When your textbook calls for working examples with the students, know this is Guided Practice.

​When your textbook provides a definition at the top of the page or one as a "reminder to the teacher" in the margin, know this is Concept Development.

​Even though the book provides problems, you may need to arrange them in matching pairs to be taught as Rule of Two - one for your and one for the students.

During Skill Development and Guided Practice, be sure to explicitly teach all the variations found in the Independent Practice.

Most books provide worksheets, questions, or problems for students to work. Look at these first! This is Independent Practice.

​Textbooks often have concept definitions in the margins, in boxes, or in the text. Sometimes it can be identified in the teacher's edition with phrases such as "tell the students that" or "explain that."

You can often find something in the textbook describing why the lesson is important or how it is used in real life. This is Relevance.

Textbooks may have a closure problem or an Ext Ticket problem. This is Closure.

After closure, provide students with structured independent practice or in-class interventions.

Fill in the Blank

A(n) ______ is a statement that describes what students will be able to do successfully and independently at the end of a specific lesson. Type your answer in the space provided.

Fill in the Blank

In which part of a lesson plan would you most expect to find students filling in exit slips on what they have learned in the lesson? Type your answer in space provided.

Understanding the EDI Lesson Plan Format

• What do I teach?

• How do I teach?

• Who am I teaching?

• How do I know they learned?​

You need to have at least 80% of your students successful before you assign Independent Practice.

Poll

I understand the EDI Lesson Design.

• Strongly Agree

• Agree

• Disagree

• Strongly Disagree

Lesson Plan Feedback

• ​What do I teach?

• How do I teach?

• Who am I teaching?

• How do I know they learned?

CFU responses tell you if you need to reteach.

Poll

I understand the EDI Lesson Plan Feedback Form.

• Strongly Agree

• Agree

• Disagree

• Strongly Disagree

Open Ended

What questions do you have about today's professional development session EDI: Lesson Planning in Math?