Teaching · Special Education

Show it, practice it together, then let them try.

Plan the steps you will model and what you will say, how the group practices and how everyone answers, and the success rate that tells you they are ready. The summary times the lesson and points out what to tighten.

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Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Or get it in the Special Education toolkit, $99 for 100 items.

The lesson planner

One plan per lesson, under a group or class code. The example lesson is a made-up phonics lesson.

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What you get

Teaching · Special Education$12 · included with Classroom and Whole-school licenses

What you finish with
For each lesson, a timed plan from review to close, the modeled steps with think-alouds, how practice is guided and checked, and the gaps to fix before teaching.
Who it is for
Special education, intervention and classroom teachers, and student teachers planning explicit lessons for small groups or classes.
Format
Browser planner filled in before the lesson. One saved plan per lesson; printed with the summary or as a blank lesson template; CSV; export and import a file.
Access
$12 one-time, yours on every device you sign in on; the tool opens once you are signed in with it. Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Also in the Special Education toolkit ($99) and the Teaching Suite pass ($199), and 1 more bundle. Everything you type stays in this browser; nothing is sent to Caveat.
Where it lives
The Special Education space in Caveat Teaching.
Support
Questions about an order, access or a correction: team@caveatacademic.com.
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Drawn for this page. The teacher shows the move, the group does it together, then each student does it alone.

How to use it

  1. Start a plan with a group code and the lesson date.
  2. Write the objective and what students review first.
  3. List the steps you will model and your think-aloud for each.
  4. Plan guided practice, prompts and how everyone responds.
  5. Set independent practice and the close, then check the summary.

Plan a lesson

What the planner is for

The sequence

Explicit instruction breaks a skill into small steps, shows each one clearly with the teacher’s thinking said aloud, practices together with prompts that fade, and moves to independent work once most responses are correct. Review at the start and a quick check at the close bracket the lesson.

Why the success rate

Rosenshine’s summary of the research found the most effective teachers kept practice going until students reached a high success rate, around 80%, before asking them to work alone, so that students practice the right way rather than errors.

What this is not

A planning template. It does not supply curriculum content; the example phonics lesson is a sample to show the fields.

Sources

  1. Archer, A. L., and Hughes, C. A. (2011), Explicit Instruction: Effective and Efficient Teaching. Guilford Press.
  2. Rosenshine, B. (2012), Principles of Instruction: Research-Based Strategies That All Teachers Should Know, American Educator 36(1).
  3. McLeskey, J., and colleagues (2017), High-Leverage Practices in Special Education, Council for Exceptional Children and CEEDAR Center (HLP 16: use explicit instruction).
  4. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act regulations, 34 CFR 300.39(b)(3) (specially designed instruction).

The example lesson and group are made up. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.