Have You Thought About This?

Here are some questions to help you analyze a lesson.
They were developed by Dr. Anita Foxworth, formerly of RMC Research Corporation.

Did you get your students mentally prepared by focusing their attention on the learning activities you have planned?
Did you draw a logical relationship from previous learning to new learning?
Did you make the learning objectives clear to your students?
Did you make the purpose and rationale for the lesson clear to your students?
Did you actively involve most of your students in the learning process most of the time?
Did you present information that was relevant to your learning objectives?
What strategies did you use to provide information to your students? (For example, lecture, inquiry, group discussion, student input, other)
Did you use a visual model to supplement the verbal or text information?
Did you check frequently whether or not your students were learning? (For example, writing, signals, choral response, telling partners, other)
Did you check all your students' understanding?
Did you make appropriate adjustments to the instruction?
Did you guide your students through problems or examples, checking how well they were doing?
Did you assess whether or not your students were ready to go on to independent practice?
Did you have your students identify the significant concepts and skills they learned from your lesson?
Did you assign appropriate independent practice?