The Dynamic Lesson Plan©

Colleagues,

This post updates my previous post and illustrates how Dynamic Lesson Plans support the Dynamic Teaching and Learning Model. 

What is Dynamic Teaching and Learning? 

Please recall that Dynamic Teaching and Learning is a process that takes the best of current learner performance relative to a content standard and makes it better continuously. Dynamic Teaching and Learning helps students, teachers, parents, and stakeholders to learn more about what students learn by:

• Letting learning happen as planned, taught, checked, and, then,


• Analyzing post hoc what was learned and produced by each student to define higher levels of standards, performances, and products.

This process uses the best of what is learned and shared by students as the new standard of quality with no preconceived limits. It supports moving beyond the absolute standards-based learning model. And because of smart technology apps and large language and generative AI models, current standards get "refreshed" by real-time dynamic student learning and not by a drawn out content standards development process.

So what is a Dynamic Lesson Plan?

A lesson is the most fundamental way of teaching and learning. A Dynamic Lesson Plan is a design for engaging teachers and learners in strategies and experiences that produce learning results and continuous improvement.

By designing Dynamic Lesson Plans, teachers develop a vision, a habit of mind, and practices for creating new and better ways of teaching and learning their students in F2F, virtual, and blended learning venues. Using Dynamic Lesson Plans means that each time learning activities are completed and shared through technology, a student(s) may establish a better product or performance than the current standard of quality -- on local, state, national, and international levels. 

Then, what does a Dynamic Lesson Plan look like?

Six essential components are required for a dynamic lesson plan. Teachers may add more, as needed. The professional learning tool, TaskBuilder, helps teachers to develop Dynamic Lesson Plans based on current and evolving standards as well as the other components shown in the graphic below. 

As Dynamic Lesson Plans get applied daily, educators will not control what and how students learn as they do in today's group-based classrooms. They will help all students to meet their learning goals through emerging F2F, virtual, and blended learning models. Their role will be to combine people, teaching, and technology to advance the frontier of learning. This will lead to unprecedented growth in students and professionals as technology supports them to learn dynamically. 

Learn more about Dynamic Teaching and Learning here.

Nick