Plan for how you will communicate and model, behavior expectations for your students. Make connections to how the behavior will support engagement and learning within the lesson. You will be asked to:
How will you communicate expectations for learners? How will you apply positive guidance strategies as you implement your lesson?
Describe how your students will be intellectually engaged. How will you communicate expectations for them? How will you follow up on behavior expectations and how well you are engaging learners?
Intellectual engagement differs from participation, following instructions, and completing the activity you introduce. Intellectual engagement should include specific opportunities you plan for students to work with the content to understand it at deeper levels. Factors that influence intellectual engagement include the types of questions you ask, arrangements you make that promote interactive discussion (students responding to each other as well as to you in order to reason, interpret, synthesize, and evaluate information), accurate presentation of content, structured and sequenced activities that build throughout the lesson leading to deep understanding of content, and activities that are intentionally planned to address the needs of diverse students as identified in your contextual piece at the beginning of this plan. Intellectual engagement is supported when students are involved and also respectful to you and their peers during the lesson.
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