Deliberate Lesson Design for Deeper Understanding

A Practical Guide to Planning, Teaching, and Assessing Rigorous Instruction
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-041-35207-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

This practical, research-informed book presents a coherent K–12 framework for designing and delivering instruction that helps students to reason rigorously and build conceptual understanding. It addresses a persistent instructional challenge: teachers are expected to move students beyond recall and activity completion toward meaningful learning, yet much of the available guidance remains too abstract to support the planning and teaching decisions they make each day.

Organized around Learning Goals, Learning Experiences, and Formative Assessment, the book guides educators through lesson design and delivery, from unpacking standards and developing objectives to designing rigorous questions, real-world transfer tasks, scaffolds, and assessing student learning. Classroom examples, step-by-step planning models, and reusable Design Today, Deliver Tomorrow routines translate research into strategies across subjects and grade levels.

Written for preservice, new, and experienced teachers, teacher educators, instructional coaches, and school leaders, it’s also suited to teacher preparation programs and college methods courses. It brings lesson design, cognitive rigor, formative assessment, professional judgment, and AI-supported planning together in one usable framework. Readers will learn to design lessons that deepen students’ understanding, recognize where students’ thinking breaks down, and make targeted adjustments that help students connect ideas, explain relationships, and adapt what they learn to new contexts.

Zielgruppe

Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rivera, Rolando

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Lehrerausbildung
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Weiterführende Schulen
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Curricula: Planung und Entwicklung
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Methoden des Lehrens und Lernens

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part One. Foundations for Designing and Delivering Instruction  Overview. The Core Components of the Design and Delivery Framework 1. Planning for Knowledge and Understanding 2. Cognitive Processing and the Construction of Understanding 3. Unpacking Standards for Instructional Planning 4. Designing Instructional Objectives That Build Understanding Through Thinking 5. Activating and Refining Schema to Build Understanding 6. Explicitly Teaching Concepts and Cognitive Processes  Part Two. Designing Learning Experiences  7. Questioning to Guide Thinking and Build Understanding 8. Designing Rigorous Real-World Transfer Tasks 9. Designing and Using Scaffolds That Preserve Rigor  Part Three. Using Formative Assessment to Assess Learning and Adjust Instruction  10. Formative Assessment as a Planned Process 11. Formative Assessment as Responsive Instructional Decision-Making  Part Four. Using Professional Judgment to Bring Lesson Design to Life  12. Bringing Lesson Design to Life Through Deliberate Delivery 13. Why Expertise in Lesson Design Is Essential in the Age of AI

Über Autor(innen)

Rolando Rivera is an accomplished instructional leader with nearly three decades of experience in New York City public schools, serving as a teacher, instructional coach, assistant principal, and principal. Throughout his career, he has designed and led professional development for teachers, instructional coaches, and school leaders, focusing on key areas such as learning goals, questioning techniques, cognitive rigor, and formative assessment.