Teacher Effectiveness: Enhancing Teacher Planning and Preparation

Teacher Effectiveness: Enhancing Teacher Planning and Preparation

Course Details

Course Type:

• Self-Paced, Fully-Facilitated
• Cohort, Fully-Facilitated

Course Length: 10 Hours

Course Access:

• Self-Paced: Each course includes 45 days of interactive access. If you purchase multiple courses within a single concentration at the same time, your total access period will be extended (e.g., two courses = 90 days, three courses = 135 days, etc.).
  
  Upon enrollment, your dashboard will initially display 45 days per course. By the next business day, your end date will be adjusted to reflect the correct total access period based on the number of courses purchased.
  
  After your enrollment period ends, you will continue to have read-only access to your courses.
• Cohort: Participants will follow a set start and end date, determined by their school district.

Course Description

This course is designed for K–12 educators seeking to strengthen their instructional planning and preparation skills to improve student learning outcomes. Grounded in the most widely used teacher evaluation frameworks—including the Danielson Framework for Teaching, Marzano Teacher Evaluation Model, and TAP System for Teacher and Student Advancement—this course explores:

• • Setting clear learning objectives
  • Designing engaging, differentiated instruction
  • Selecting and using formative assessments effectively

Through interactive content, expert facilitation, and practical application, participants will:

• • Enhance lesson design and instructional decision-making
  • Apply strategies to reduce cognitive load and support diverse learners
  • Connect course learning to instructional coaching and Tier 1 instruction

By the end of the course, educators will be equipped with tools to improve their teaching practice and positively impact student achievement.

Course Objectives

Participants will be able to:

• Understand and apply rubrics and indicators related to teacher planning and preparation.
• Reflect on pedagogical knowledge and content expertise to identify areas for growth.
• Address student misconceptions and make interdisciplinary connections.
• Apply culturally sustaining strategies that reflect students’ backgrounds and experiences.
• Implement formative assessment and observation strategies to inform instruction.
• Design and analyze assessments aligned with learning goals.
• Explore whole child education and cognitive development concepts.
• Evaluate instructional materials and tools to support multilingual and neurodivergent learners.
• Apply adaptive teaching principles and planning models such as Understanding by Design.
• Align assessments with learning targets to improve instructional coherence.
• Integrate AI and innovative technologies to enhance classroom instruction.