This document outlines a lesson plan template that includes sections for vital information, standards and differentiated instruction, essential elements of instruction, materials and resources, and assessment. The template provides guidance for completing each section, including summarizing the central focus of the lesson, identifying relevant standards, describing instructional activities, grouping strategies, formative and summative assessments, and differentiation strategies. Teachers are to use this template to develop detailed, step-by-step lesson plans.

1. EEI Lesson Plan Template
VITAL INFORMATION
Author
*Subject(s)
Topic or Unit of Study
*Grade/Level
*Summary
STANDARDS AND DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION:
*Standards
Differentiated
Instruction
EEI (ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF INSTRUCTION) - LESSON
PLAN ELEMENTS REQUIRED:
Objective
Anticipatory Set
Teach Lesson / Model
Guided Practice
Independent Practice

2. Closure
Evaluation
*Assessment/Rubrics
MATERIALS AND RESOURCES
Instructional Materials (handouts, etc.)
Resources
Academic Language:
Lesson summary
and focus:
Classroom and
student factors:
National / State
Learning Standards:
Specific learning target(s) / objectives: Teacher notes:
I. PLANNING
Agenda: Formative assessment:
Functions:Key Vocabulary: Form:

3. Teacher Candidate:
Grade Level:
Date:
Unit/Subject:
Instructional Plan Title
LESSON PLAN TEMPLATE
College of Education
Grouping:
II. INSTRUCTION
I do Students do Differentiation
Instructional Materials,
Equipment and
Technology:
A. Opening
Anticipatory set:
Prior knowledge
connection:
B. Learning and Teaching Activities (Teaching and Guided
Practice):
III. ASSESSMENT
Summative Assessment Differentiation

4. Homework:
Closure:
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14: additional information 15: additional information 16: Ad2:
Describe the important classroom factors (demographics and
environment) and student factors (IEPs, 504s, ELLs, non-
labeled challenged students), and the impact of those factors on
planning, teaching and assessing students to facilitate learning
for all students.Ad3: Identify the relevant grade level
standard(s), including the strand, cluster, and standard(s) by
number and its text.Ad4: Specify exactly what the students will
be able to do after the standards-based lesson.Ad5: Clarify
where this lesson falls within a unit of study.Ad6: Identify the
(1) opening of the lesson; (2) learning and teaching activities;
and (3) closure that you can post as an agenda for the students
that includes the approximate time for each segment.Ad7:
Identify the process and how you will measure the progress
toward mastery of learning target(s).Ad8: Include the content-
specific terms you need to teach and how you will teach
students that vocabulary in the lesson.Ad9: Clarify the purpose
the language is intended to achieve within each subject area.

5. Functions often consist of the verbs found in the standards and
learning goal statements. How will your students demonstrate
their understanding? Ad10: Describe the structures or ways of
organizing language to serve a particular function within each
subject area. What kinds of structures will you implement so
that your students might demonstrate their depth of
understanding? Ad11: List ALL materials, equipment and
technology the teacher and students will use during the lesson.
Add or attach copies of ALL printed and online materials at the
end of this template. Be sure to address how you will teach the
students to use the technology in Section II.
INSTRUCTION.Ad12: Identify grouping strategies that will
support your students’ learning needs.Ad13: Identify how this
lesson connects to previous lessons / learning (prior knowledge
of students) and students’ lives.Ad14: Identify how this lesson
is meaningful to the students and connects to their lives.Ad15:
Your “I Do” instructional procedures should include: The
teaching strategy you will use to teach each step that includes
modeling and formative assessment; transition statements you
will make throughout your lesson and essential questions you
will ask; and academic language of vocabulary, function, and
form. Script detailed, step-by-step instructions on how you will
implement the instructional plan. Use a numbered list of each
step; bold every example of modeling; italicize every
formative assessment. Ad16: Your “Students Do” procedures
should describe exactly what students will do during the lesson
that corresponds to each step of the “I Do.” Please use a
corresponding numbered list. Ad17: Describe methods of
differentiation, including accommodation or differentiation
strategies for academically, behaviorally and motivationally
challenged students. Please use a corresponding numbered list.
Also include extension activities: What will students who finish
early do? Ad1: In a few sentences, summarize this lesson,
identifying the central focus based on the content/skills you are
teaching.Ad18: Include details of any summative assessment as
applicable and attach a copy with an answer key. Explain how

6. the summative assessment measures the learning
target(s)/objectives. If you do not include a summative
assessment, identify how you will measure students’ mastery of
the learning target(s)/objectives.Ad19: Describe methods of
differentiation for your summative assessment, including
accommodation or differentiation strategies for academically,
behaviorally and motivationally challenged students.Ad20:
Explain how students will share what they have learned in the
lesson. Identify questions that you can ask students to begin the
closure conversation. Identify how students will confirm
transfer of the learning target(s)/ objectives to application
outside the classroom.Ad21: Clearly identify any homework
tasks as appropriate. Elaborate whether the homework is drill-
or skill-practice-based and explain how the homework
assignment supports the learning targets / objectives. Attach
any copies of homework.Print: