ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book expresses satisfaction that educators have moved toward an approach to planning that starts with the learning outcomes, and identifies the assessments, and then plans the instruction. It argues that teachers and students need spaces in which to step back and breathe. Many teacher-training programs require their pre-service teachers to use a lesson-planning template. A course needs variety and repetition, as does a curriculum. Courses and curricula both need to be designed and built in ways that recognize the need for gradients and human scale. The corollary is that the professor’s planning is broken into the same parts; in units there are starts and stops to topics. Bad planning or haphazard instruction that wastes our own time and that of our students for one period or one day is bad enough.
