Planning with the New Educator

Planning with the New Educator provides the ultimate “teachable Moment,” says Paula Rutherford. Planning with the New Educator can be held when there is no intention of following up with an observation. The sole purpose, in this instance, can be simply to plan a lesson, unit, or map out a semester or course.

When planning with a New Educator prior to an observation it is important to ask the following questions.
• What are the students suppose to know and be able to do?
• How are the objectives related to the State Standards.
• How will student progress be measured?
• What will the New Educator do?
• What will the students do?
• How will the data be used to adjust the lesson or re-teach the lesson?

Contributed by: Dr. Doug Miller, source The 21st Century Mentor’s Handbook by Paula Rutherford