When mentoring our pre-service and in-service teachers we need to demonstrate how the five step process of Backward Design (*Wiggins & McTighe, 1998) can be incorporated in lesson planning.
Assumption:
We will create a lesson plan to welcome a student or co-teacher into the fifth grade day or supplemental school classroom of a mentor teacher.
According to the Backward Design framework of *Wiggins & McTighe the first step is to decide upon what (Jewish) content or knowledge is enduring.
At the top of this post you will find a sample backward design lesson plan template into which the enduring Jewish knowledge, Hachnasat Orchim, welcoming guests, is written.
*Wiggins, G. & McTighe, J. (1998). Understanding by Design. Alexandria, VA. Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.
On the next post we will include sample essential questions related to the concept of Hachnasat Orchim, welcoming guests.
