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Lesson Plan: Evidence Base

This lesson plan aims to teach students about identifying their strengths as learners. The counselor will introduce the concept of a strength-based approach and have students complete a study skills assessment questionnaire to determine their strengths. Students will then discuss their strengths in small groups and share with the class. The counselor will collect data by comparing students' academic performance before and after the lesson to evaluate the effectiveness of teaching students to recognize their strengths.

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Lesson Plan: Evidence Base

This lesson plan aims to teach students about identifying their strengths as learners. The counselor will introduce the concept of a strength-based approach and have students complete a study skills assessment questionnaire to determine their strengths. Students will then discuss their strengths in small groups and share with the class. The counselor will collect data by comparing students' academic performance before and after the lesson to evaluate the effectiveness of teaching students to recognize their strengths.

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Lesson Plan

School Counselor: A Shanahan


Lesson Plan Title: Strengths Based Learning

□ Single Classroom Lesson


□ Unit of Classroom Lessons: Lesson _____ of _____
□ Small-Group Session Lessons: Lesson 1 of 5
Target Audience:

Evidence Base:
⬜ Best Practice (commonly used and believed to be of high quality)
⬜ Action Research (individual investigates own practice to improve content/delivery)
⬜ Research-Informed (a review of research provides foundation for content/delivery)
⬜ Evidence-Based (highest level of evidence, results published in peer-reviewed journal)

ASCA Student Standards Targeted: Student Learning Objectives:

Identify 1–2 student standards relevant for this For each of the selected student standards, write
targeted group and goal: or select 1–2 learning objectives
(Best practice = select one)
M&B# Mindsets & Behaviors Statement Student Learning Objectives
M 5. Belief in using abilities to their fullest Student(s) will:
to achieve high quality results and Learn how to identify their strengths as
outcomes. learners.

Materials:

-Study Skills Assessment Questionnaire


-PowerPoint

Describe how you will:

Updated, June 2021


Introduce Lesson -Students will learn how to identify the things they are doing well, so that
Topic/Focus: they continue to do those things consciously, and apply those
characteristics to areas that need improvement. When a student
believes they are struggling, they may believe that they are not doing
well at anything. This is very often a false assumption and this lesson will
look to remedy that notion.
Pre test
Communicate the Students will be able to determine what their strengths as learners are.
Lesson Objective:
Teach Content: The counselor will introduce why it is important to lean into strengths,
and to let students know that they all have strengths. Counselor will
briefly go over what a “strength-based approach” is. Counselor will
introduce the 8 domains from the Study Skills Assessment Questionnaire.

Practice Content: Students will take the Study Skills Assessment Questionnaire. After taking
the assessment students will break out into groups of 4 and discuss what
their highest areas were and their lowest.

Summarize/Close: Counselor will digest results with students and ask if there were any
surprises, and what their thoughts were on the test.
Post test

Data Collection Plan – For multiple lessons in a unit, complete this section only once for the unit.
Participation Data Plan: 
Anticipated number 25
of students:
Planned length of 45 minutes
lesson(s):
ASCA Student Standards Data Plan:
For each lesson/unit/small group, school counselors will administer pre-/post-assessment aligned with the selected
ASCA Student Standards and student learning objectives.
Pre-/Post-Assessment items are:
1. I know what a strength-based approach is 1 2 3 4
2. I can identity my strengths as a learner 1 2 3 4
3. I know how to use my strengths as a learner to succeed in school 1 2 3 4
4. List my strengths:
Outcome Data Plan: (choose one and describe specific data point to compare)
Examples:
Updated, June 2021
Achievement: School counselor will compare reading levels of students before and after delivery of lesson.
Attendance: School counselor will compare number of absences last year to this year.
Discipline: School counselor will compare total number of disciplinary reports for peer-on-peer conflict first quarter
with second quarter
⬜ Achievement (describe):
Counselor will compare student’s academic performance before and after participation in the
small group.
⬜ Attendance (describe):

⬜ Discipline (describe):

Follow-Up Plans
Explain your plan for students who missed the lesson.
Students will complete the skills assessment on their own. They will meet with the counselor
for 15 minutes following their completion of the assessment to talk about their strengths as a
learner.
Explain your plan for students who did not demonstrate mastery on the pre-/post-assessment
of student standards (M&B)/student learning objectives.
As this is an ongoing group, we will continue to evaluate as the group progresses, paying
special attention to the students who did not demonstrate mastery.

Updated, June 2021

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