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Series 1: High-Leverage Teaching Practices

Become a Better Educator With High-Leverage Teaching Practices

You need to know that the evidence-based practices you use are effective and indispensable to your student’s outcomes. High-leverage practices (HLTPs) bring together education research and instructional practice to offer teachers and students trusted, effective, pedagogically sound strategies. Through HLTPs, you can promote measurable growth in learner outcomes while strengthening your own teaching practice.

Module 1

Developing Meaningful Lesson Objectives

Meaningful objectives will help you craft clear and meaningful objectives as the cornerstone to powerful and effective lesson plans. Tailored to the unique needs of K-12 teachers, professors, or educators in adult and workforce development, choose the context that is most relevant to you and the learners you support.

There are three pathways. 

You know how to create lesson objectives, but are they meaningful?  Instruction that starts with knowing the learner and what is meaningful to them increases engagement, depth of understanding, and the ability to utilize the learning in their own lives. 

Learning Objectives

Upon successful completion of this self-study module, you will be able to:

  • Define the term “meaningful lesson objective” and identify the four elements of a meaningful lesson objective.

  • Explain why meaningful lesson objectives are important for elementary and secondary learners and how they are related to learners’ needs and goals.

  • Explain why meaningful lesson objectives are important for teachers and how they are related to what a teacher does in the classroom.

  • Recognize a lesson plan that is built on a meaningful objective and describe how the lesson activities guide learners to achievement of that objective.

  • Create meaningful lesson objectives related to your own learners and teaching context.

Register Today!

You know how to create lesson objectives, but are they meaningful?  Instruction that starts with knowing the learner and what is meaningful to them increases engagement, depth of understanding, and the ability to utilize the learning in their own lives. 

Learning Objectives

Upon successful completion of this self-study module, you will be able to:

  • Define the term “meaningful lesson objective” and identify the four elements of a meaningful lesson objective.

  • Explain why meaningful lesson objectives are important for learners in higher education and professional purposes context and how they are related to their needs and goals.

  • Explain why meaningful lesson objectives are important for teachers and how they are related to what a teacher does in the classroom.

  • Recognize a lesson plan that is built on a meaningful objective and describe how the lesson activities guide learners to achievement of that objective.

  • Create meaningful lesson objectives related to your own learners and teaching context.

Register Today!

You know how to create lesson objectives, but are they meaningful?  Instruction that starts with knowing the learner and what is meaningful to them increases engagement, depth of understanding, and the ability to utilize the learning in their own lives. 

Learning Objectives

Upon successful completion of this self-study module, you will be able to:

  • Define the term “meaningful lesson objective” and identify the four elements of a meaningful lesson objective.

  • Explain why meaningful lesson objectives are important for learners in adult education (ABE/ESL) and workforce development contexts and how they are related to their needs and goals.

  • Explain why meaningful lesson objectives are important for teachers and how they are related to what a teacher does in the classroom.

  • Recognize a lesson plan that is built on a meaningful objective and describe how the lesson activities guide learners to achievement of that objective.

  • Create meaningful lesson objectives related to your own learners and teaching context.

Register Today!

Introductory Pricing

  • TESOL Members - $59/module
  • Nonmembers - $79/module

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Questions? Contact us.

The practice section is great. I like how the participants have opportunities for selecting and observing teaching videos. The lesson plan analysis is an effective way to practice what was learned and critical thinking.

Elsa Anderson, Associate Professor, School of Education, Texas Wesleyan University

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