High/Low Lesson Plan Template

Guided Practice - highly structured teacher directed• Teacher and students do examples together with teacher verbally guiding students through each stepas students carry out the steps of the problem. Teacher monitors closely so students do all partscorrectly.• 2-3 focus problems should be sufficient.Guided Practice – High StructureTeacher tells steps as students complete problems.2-3 focus problems onlyGuided Practice -medium structure student directed• Students tell steps or strategy or explain what to do next.o Teacher may need to use sentence frames.• Begin with teacher prompts and scaffold until students can tell teacher or a partner how to do thesteps (and why).• Use focus problems only.• Do until students can successfully tell steps of the strategy.Guided Practice – Medium StructureStudents tell the steps for completing the problems3-5 focus problems only2