Lesson One—Instructional Leadership

• Define instruction, instructor, and Christian instruction
• Define and explain worldview, Christian worldview, and biblical integration
• Define differentiated instruction
• Define and explain instructional leadership
• Analyze instructional leadership research
• Define a school’s mission and vision
• Identify key qualities of instructional leaders
• Explain ways to improve instructional leadership in the classroom
• Design a “start-the-school-year-off-right” instructional plan
• Enlist parents to work with their children

Lesson Two—Goals and Objectives

• Define goal and target performance objective
• Explain the role of verbs and learning performances in goals and objectives
• Write academic goals and target performance objectives
• Number goals and target performance objectives
• Identify the value of goals and objectives in the teaching-learning process
• Explain the value of teaching and testing to objectives
• Identify the errors commonly made in writing goals and objectives
• Identify and describe Bloom’s six levels of cognitive learning

Lesson Three—Teaching Strategies

• Define teaching strategy
• Identify criteria for selecting teaching strategies
• Define didactic teaching, dialectical teaching, and student-directed teaching
• Explain four popular teaching strategies—lecture, demonstration, questioning, and discussion
• Explain the Lecture Plan Checklist
• Identify major teaching strategies used by Jesus
• Define and explain parable, simile, metaphor, hyperbole, and overstatement
• List five of Christ’s teaching objectives

Lesson Four—Pedagogy, Differentiated Instruction, and Cooperative Learning

• Define pedagogy
• Explain the Law of the Teacher and its pedagogical traits
• Describe teaching rules and violations for the Law of the Teacher
• Define differentiate
• Explain differentiated instruction
• Explain three types of learners—visual, auditory, and kinetic
• Clarify differentiated instruction in relation to the three types of learners
• List ways to differentiate instruction for diverse learning styles
• Define cooperative learning
• Describe the five cooperative learning components
• Explain the range of student interdependence
• Explain five cooperative learning models: Jigsaw, Think—Pair—Share, Roundtable, 3—2—1 Processing, and What Do You Know About . . .

Lesson Five—Instructional Duties, Lesson Plans, and Textbook Audits

• Explain the Law of the Learner
• List and explain four levels of attention—passive, compelled, active, and attracted
• Identify instructional rules for gaining and maintaining students’ attention and interest
• Identify common mistakes teachers make in gaining and maintaining students’ attention and interest
• Explain three phrases of planning
• Differentiate lesson plans and unit plans
• Identify factors authors consider in selecting subject content for a textbook
• Distinguish “teaching to textbooks” from “teaching to goals and target performance objectives”
• Explain a textbook audit