Teachers use the Lesson Organizer Routine to plan lessons and then introduce and connect ideas to the unit and the course

“Less” may be “more,” but how can teachers put this notion into action, given the volume of information that must be covered in a course? One way is with the Lesson Organizer Routine, a simple set of procedures that helps teachers and students focus on the main idea of each lesson. Using a form called a Lesson Organizer, the teacher constructs a draft of a visual picture of an upcoming lesson and its parts. In doing so, the main idea of the lesson is spelled out, and a map of the lesson’s content is created. In addition, the teacher spells out relationships between lessons, as well as the relationships between the different parts of the targeted lesson. Next, in class, the teacher and students create the final Lesson Organizer in partnership, with the students writing key information on their own Lesson Organizers and participating in the discussion about the lesson.

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