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Types of Instructional Planning

1. TYPES OF INSTRUCTIONAL PLANNING EED 110: TEACHING SOCIAL STUDIES IN ELEM.

2. LONG-RANGE PLANNING Long-Range Planning Long-range, or strategic, planning is a way to identify what you want in the future and how you are going to get there. Whether you are looking at school buildings or curriculum, the components of the planning process are the same. First, a group needs good information on which to base its planning. What is working well now? What are the problems? What are the external factors that will impact your future? Those are some of the questions that group members might need to answer in order to define a long-range plan.

3. Imagine, for example, that you are looking to prepare a long-range plan for a middle school building First, you identify what everyone 1) likes about the current building and 2) what they see as the problems/potential problems with the building. Gather as much information as possible about the building. For example, you might gather a structural and safety survey of the building, forecasts for school population growth/decline, and the latest thinking about good school design. To gather additional background data, use the  SWOT analysis technique  to define the current reality and likely future impacts. Engage all interested parties in creating a common vision for the future of the school building. What does it look like when it is the way you want it to be? (See previous Great Meetings article, including  Visioning the Ideal: Wish, Want, Wonder  and  Defining the Vision .) Use the group's "vision" to identify specific goals you want to achieve. Agreement on the vision and goals gets everyone headed in the same direction. If you don't know where you're going, it will be impossible to find the right road to get there.

4. Once you have collected the background data and have a set vision and goals, then you can work on a plan for how to get from the present to that vision; that is the roadmap to your goals. For each goal, you will need to develop a series of tasks that must be accomplished over time to meet the goal. Make sure that plan specifies each task, the budget/staff implications, the person responsible, and the date by which it needs to be completed.

5. UNIT PLANNING Unit planning involves organizing a series of related lessons around a central topic or theme. It can be designed for any length of time, from a week to a whole quarter. The K to 12 Curriculum Guide for Social Studies provides examples of units, such as focusing on the self, family, school, and environment in Grade 1. In Grade 6, a quarter may contain multiple units, each exploring different themes and issues within the overall theme. When planning a unit, it is important to consider elements and processes such as the unit title, time requirement, list of topics, target students, rationale, goals, objectives, teaching strategies, resources, and evaluation procedures. These elements help ensure a well-structured and effective unit plan.

6. LESSON PLANNING Lesson planning communicates to learners what they will learn and how their goals will be assessed, and it helps instructors organize content, materials, time, instructional strategies, and assistance in the classroom. A lesson plan is the instructor's road map of what students need to learn and how it will be done effectively during the class time. Lesson plans are essential tools for educators, aiding in imparting knowledge, skills, and competencies. They guide content delivery, organization, communication, and assessment.

7. Through careful planning, educators engage students with accessible content, align activities with objectives, and ensure relevance. Lesson planning is essential to effective teaching, requiring thoughtful consideration and the implementation of various strategies. Example of lesson planning is a teacher’s guide for facilitating a lesson. It typically includes the goal (what students need to learn), how the goal will be achieved (the method of delivery and procedure) and a way to measure how well the goal was reached (usually via homework assignments or testing). This plan is a teacher’s objectives for what students should accomplish and how they will learn the material.

8. THE IMPORTACE OF INTSTRUCTIONAL PLANNING What is the importance of instructional planning? Instructional planning is an important way for teachers to strategically decide what their students will learn and how they will learn it. An important factor of instructional planning is using differentiated instruction to meet the various needs of all students. What is instructional planning and its importance? Instructional planning includes not only planning what students will learn, but how they will learn it. Planning should include both short-term goals and long-term goals, and for students with exceptionalities, should address the goals on their Individualized Education Program (IEP).

9. Plans for teaching help in organizing the class and saving time. Teachers can use lesson plans to apply appropriate strategies. The lesson will be taught better by the teacher, who will be more prepared and confidentEffective lesson planning Plans for teaching help in organizing the class and saving time. Teachers can use lesson plans to apply appropriate strategies. The lesson will be taught better by the teacher, who will be more prepared and confident. ts in several ways. A well-designed lesson plan: Helps students and teachers understand the goals of an instructional module. Allows the teacher to translate the curriculum into learning activities.

10. LONG-RANGE PLANNING Long-range planning can be defined as the processes used to implement an organization’s strategic plan. It’s about aligning the business’ long-term goals and developing action plans in line with the strategic plan.

11. Depending upon the type of business, the time scale for long-range plans can vary from three years through to one or two decades. This is particularly the case for organizations such as utilities, large-scale high-tech manufacturers, chemical plants and research companies where the time and costs associated with investments is such that plants take years to build and returns are measured over long periods.

12. Short-term planning deals with the here and now. Medium-term plans address actions intended to permanently resolve short-term issues. Long-range planning is about changing the direction of the organization to meet its long-term goals and insulate it from the upheavals that periodically affect the economy.

13. The History of Long-Range Planning During the 1950s and 1960s, the economy was stable and growing. Organizations experienced substantial growth, and planners started using numerical theory to extrapolate growth predictions. However, the landscape changed in the ‘70s, and the economy suffered an upheaval due to the US’s inability to maintain the gold standard. Static long-range strategies of the time could not cope with these upheavals, and many but not all businesses abandoned long-term planning for some time.

14. Subsequently, a number of events caused further economic instability, including the 1973 oil crisis, the 2008 housing bubble and banking crisis, and more recently, the impact of trade wars. Despite this, savvy organizations adopted long-range planning strategies intended to cushion the business from unpredictable upheaval through techniques, such as the SWOT analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats), and planned accordingly.