Effective Instruction Institutes

Instructional Decision Making and Planning

The overarching goals of the Instructional Decision-Making and Planning Institure are to:

• Deepen understanding of the research-based instructional approaches and strategies that inform and scaffold standards-based planning and instructional decision-making
• Enhance the capacity of instructional leaders to implement, support, and sustain an effective lesson-planning model to improve teaching practice and student learning

At the completion of the Institute, instructional leaders will be able to:

• Define how formative and summative assessments are essential to monitoring students' academic growth and informing teachers' instructional decision-making before, during, and after instruction
• Describe how class and student profiles are helpful tool to inform instructional decision-making and planning
• Identify research-based instructional strategies that are key to instructional planning
• Use a protocol to study student work as evidence of effective planning and instruction
• Develop a professional development plan on lesson planning for each school community
• Identify how the Classroom Walkthrough process enhances leadership capacity and supports communities of practice focused on student learning
• Use the LEARN lesson design as a model for teacher planning

This Institute was developed in partnership with the Fairfax County, VA Public Schools.