The Planning Model

Where am I going?

• Defining leaning objectives for specific activities.
• Ex: Students will learn to identify violations of social norms constituting unusual character behaviors to infer the theme or point of a story.”

Who am I going there with?

• Determine your students’ reading interests and performances.
• Take ZPD into consideration.
  

How will I get there?

• Involve students in activities so that they become engaged in the activities through how you facilitate their participation in the activities.
• Explicitly state your purpose for the activities.
  

How will I show them where to go?

• Act as a “tourguide”: Demonstrate how you operate in the classroom through direct, deliberate modeling.
• Teach students how to have an effective, critical discussion in the classroom.
  

How will I know when I have arrived?

• Reflect on: what went well with students’ learning; what didn’t go well; and what things you need to work on to address what didn’t go well.