Novelty and Variety
DESIGN QUALITIES

Naperville Community Unit School
District 203

Content and Substance

Description/Indicators/Questions

Teacher plans for and articulates enduring understandings of the lesson.

What are the enduring understandings of the lesson, and how are they communicated or demonstrated within the lesson/unit?
Content has clarity, is rich, has depth, and connections are made.

How does the content connect to the student's world?
How does the content support multiple perspectives?
Students can demonstrate an understanding that skills and concepts are connected within and across the curriculum.
How will the students demonstrate their understanding of the concepts?
Students are engaged in meaningful work and persist to an appropriate end result.

What evidence demonstrates the level of student engagement?
What evidence demonstrates the level of student engagement?

How did you select your resources, and how do they support the content?
How is your lesson structured to meet the needs of all learners?
Content is directly tied to national, state, and local standards

How do learning activities tie to national, state, and local standards?
How do the lesson/unit of study/processes for learning reflect the beliefs, vision, and mission?
Students are able to articulate what they are expected to know or be able to do

How do you plan for students to communicate what they have learned?
What are the enduring understandings of the lesson, and how are they communicated or demonstrated within the lesson/unit?
Students are engaged with a wide range of activities that require content and processes worth knowing and mastering.

How does the content connect to the student's world?
What evidence demonstrates the level of student engagement that leads to persistence in learning?
Lessons are planned with multiple perspectives.

How does the content support multiple perspectives?
Assessment of content drives instruction.

How do assessment tools inform and drive ongoing instruction?
Lesson/unit design is driven by beliefs, vision, and mission.

How do the lesson/unit of study/processes for learning reflect the beliefs, vision, and mission?
Content is differentiated and scaffolded appropriately to meet the needs of all learners.

How is your lesson structured to meet the needs of all learners?
Content presented is accurate, meaningful, and essential to the discipline.

How does the lesson/unit of study/process for learning reflect the beliefs, vision, and mission of the district?
How does the content connect to the student's world?
How did you select your resources, and how do they support the content?
Content is challenging and rigorous.

How is your lesson structured to meet the needs of all learners?

 

Naperville Community Unit School District #203
September 27, 2001