Teacher Education Lesson Plan Template

Teacher: Colleen Rowan

Date: 1/26/15

Title of Lesson: Adding Decimals

Cooperating Teacher: Jaime Mosquera

Core Components
Subject, Content Area, or Topic

Math: Adding decimals

Student Population

24 Students: 4 groups, 7 gifted and talented students

Learning Objectives

Students will be able to add decimals in the tenths, hundredths, and thousandth place.
Virginia Essential Knowledge and Skills (SOL)

Math 4.5 C) Students will add and subtract with decimals

Materials/Resources

Dry erase boards

Markers
Text book questions
High Yield Instructional Strategies Used (Marzano, 2001)
Check if Used
Strategy
Return

Identifying Similarities & Differences

45%
Summarizing & Note Taking
34%

Reinforcing Efforts & Providing Recognition

29%

Homework & Practice

28%
Nonlinguistic Representations
27%
Cooperative Learning
23%
Setting Goals & Providing Feedback
23%
Generating & Testing Hypothesis
23%
Questions, Cues, & Advanced Organizers
22%
DOES YOUR INSTRUCTIONAL INPUT & MODELING YIELD THE POSITIVE
RETURNS YOU WANT FOR YOUR STUDENTS?
Check if Used Strategy
Return

Teach Others/Immediate Use of Learning

95%

Practice by Doing
75%
Discussion
50%

Demonstration
30%

Audio Visual
20%
Reading
10%

Lecture
05%

Time
(min.)
2

Process Components
*Anticipatory Set
Teacher will activate students prior knowledge by comparing adding decimals to adding
money. Students will discuss the similarities and differences of adding money and
decimals.
*State the Objectives (grade-level terms)
Today we are going to learn about and practice adding decimals.

*Instructional Input or Procedure

After discussion, the teacher will use a dry erase board to demonstrate the steps students
must take to add decimals. Students will then practice using their own dry erase boards.
First the teacher will give students simpler problems that only involve lining up the
decimals. Then after students are confident with this, the teacher will present more difficult
problems that require using a place holder zero.
*Modeling
The teacher will demonstrate on a dry erase board how to line up the decimals and add in
place holder zeros.
*Check for Understanding

Teacher will ask students what each step is as she models adding decimals again.
*Guided Practice
Students will complete problems on their own dry erase board as the teacher gives
instructions.
*Independent Practice
Students will complete problems on their own using their own dry erase boards.
Assessment
Teacher will informally assess student work during independent practice. Students will
later be formally assess on February 2nd.

*Closure
Teacher will get students to think further by asking students what else they can do with
decimals other than adding. This will also set up the next lesson of subtracting decimals.

Differentiation Strategies (enrichment, accommodations, remediation, or by learning style).

Groups are differentiated according to performance. The lesson also contains both auditory
instruction, a visual demonstration, and student participation.
Classroom Management Issues (optional)
Students will be reminded then when they move onto the next station they must either be silent or
use a whisper voice.
Lesson Critique. To be completed following the lesson. Did your students meet the objective(s)? What part
of the lesson would you change? Why? In the future, I would wait to give students markers and erasers until after I
have completed the discussion and instruction so that students arent distracted by playing with these supplies.

*Denotes Madeline Hunter lesson plan elements.