Plan Backward-Coach Teacher Clarity

Read the article "Coaching Teacher Clarity Through Backward Planning":

https://blog.teachboost.com/coaching-teacher-clarity-through-backward-planning

Explore the free resources that accompany The Teacher Clarity Playbook (a book discussed in the article):

https://us.corwin.com/en-us/nam/the-teacher-clarity-playbook-grades-k-12/book263266#free-resources

• What stood out to you about Paige Bergin's focus on teacher clarity and the three-step process for backward planning?
• Teachers in non-tested grades or non-tested subjects sometimes forget that there are Pennsylvania academic standards for all content areas - not just math and ELA. How do you see this three-step backward planning process empowering meaningful standards-based teaching across the entire school?
• What resources from The Teacher Clarity Playbook would be useful in your support of teacher lesson design for standards-based teaching?

Design a planning template that you could use to support individual teachers, grade level teams, or department teams in using the three-step backward planning process to design lesson plans that articulate learning intentions, relevance, and success criteria.

Specifically, what considerations do teachers need for each step?

• Step 1 - Break Down the Objective
• Step 2 - Create Success Criteria
• Step 3 - Use Student-Friendly Language