TAP Lesson Template
(for each cluster meeting)
Date: ___
Lesson Focus: Instruction: Lesson & Structure & Pacing
Objectives:
Meeting Outcome: What will I learn?
1.  Cluster members will examine prior learning and application of grading rubric from modeling lesson
on presenting instruction.
2.  Cluster members will learn the elements of effective modeling.
3.  Cluster members will learn the indicators of Lesson Structure and Pacing
4.  Cluster members will develop specific options for a specific lesson plan to provide opportunities for students who progress at different learning rates.
Rubric / STEPS / Activity / Materials
Standards and Objectives /
Identify / ·  Examine/collect any baby names from closure activity from
Previous week.
·  Group led discussion of lesson scoring from Literary Elements
review (previous week)
·  Examination of Power Point lesson plan as applied to
Presenting Instructional Content rubric indicators. / Evidence/Scoring
Sheets for previous
Week.
Power Point – Cluster 7

Learn/ Obtain
(Explain and Model) / ·  The career teachers will examine the specific
Indicators from Lesson Structure and Pacing.
·  The career teachers will watch the master teacher model the indicator “pacing is approparite, and sometimes provides opportunities for students who progress at different learning rates. / Score Sheet
Patriot Bucks
Handouts

Develop
(Guided Practice) / ·  The career teachers will develop optional opportunities(activities) to apply in their own disciplines.
·  The career teachers will begin a collection of acitivities to
Enrich the learning of students who progress at different learning rates. / Computers/Google Documents
Or Tap Notebooks

Apply / The career teachers will apply lesson structure and pacing strategies to their own classrooms and do a self-reflection of where their own practices would fall in the rubric. / See Glog for more ideas

Evaluate / Master and/or Mentor teachers will observe career teachers implementing the strategies in the classroom.
Follow-up as a Result of this Meeting:
§  Each career and mentor teacher will collect evidence during the next week of how he/she has implemented the indicator under the Proficient category for Lesson Structure & Pacing.
§  Each career and mentor teacher will begin a list of activities suitable for “students who progress at different learning rates.”
What will take place by the next cluster meeting? List what career, mentor and master teachers will do and when they will do it. Use future tense.
Classroom Teacher:
Mentor/Master Teacher: - How will mentor/masters support application in the classroom?
Master/Mentor teacher will visit each career teacher’s classroom to determine how well the rubric indicators are being implemented.
Essential Learning/Meeting Details / --What took place during cluster? - Write down new learning details.
--BOX all decisions.
All career teachers present. Reviewed Cluster norms. Reviewed and modeled developing motivation in students. .

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