Direct Instruction Lesson Plan Template

Teachers: Subject:
Ulises A. Gonzalez-Gonzalez 8Th grade social studies
Common Core State Standards:
● Analyze the relationship between education, income, and job opportunities
Objective (Explicit):
● Students will be able to analyze the relationship between education and income by comparing the
different levels of education to their perspective income levels.

Evidence of Mastery (Measurable):

◻ Include a copy of the lesson assessment.
◻ Provide exemplar student responses with the level of detail you expect to see.
◻ Assign value to each portion of the response.

Ulises - As a group, the students will Create a hypothetical bank account based on three different levels
of education - No diploma, a technical degree and a Bachelor’s degree in your area of choice.

Sub-objectives, SWBAT (Sequenced from basic to complex):

◻ How will you review past learning and make connections to previous lessons?
◻ What skills and content are needed to ultimately master this lesson objective?
◻ How is this objective relevant to students, their lives, and/or the real world?

Student will be able to:

Compare education and salary
Understand the time it takes to achieve levels of education.
Key vocabulary: Technical Degrees Materials: Example Salaries Worksheet
College Degrees
Diploma
Salary
Education
Income
Opening (state objectives, connect to previous learning, and make relevant to real life)
◻ How will you activate student interest?
◻ How will you connect to past learning?
◻ How will you present the objective in an engaging and student-friendly way?
◻ How will you communicate its importance and make the content relevant to your students?

Ulises - Y’all like money right? How can we make more of it? What do you know about college?

I Teacher Will: Student Will:

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Teacher Will: Student Will:

◻ How will you ensure that all students have multiple ◻ How will students practice all knowledge/skills required
opportunities to practice new content and skills? of the objective, with your support, such that they
◻ What types of questions can you ask students as continue to internalize the sub-objectives?
you are observing them practice? ◻ How will students be engaged?
◻ How/when will you check for understanding? ◻ How will you elicit student-to-student interaction?
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Differentiation Strategy
◻ What accommodations/modifications will you include for specific students?
◻ Do you anticipate any students who will need an additional challenge?

Closing/Student Reflection/Real-life connections:

◻ How will students summarize and state the significance of what they learned?
◻ Why will students be engaged?

How will the level of education you reach affect your own adult lives? Does this make
you want to achieve a higher level of education.