Instructional Design: Exemplar B2

Standard: Cultivating Effective Instructional Design to Co-plan, Teach and Assess Learning.

Theme: Instructional Partnerships

Growth Phase: Evolving

Growth Indicator: Teacher-librarian / LLC teacher and classroom teacher cooperatively develop units of instruction that engage learners in inquiry learning.


An Ontario school district provides an ongoing series of LC blogs. In this post a recorded webinar provides modelling of collaborative instructional design in the LLC with two teachers at different grade levels and a district learning commons coach as they discuss their collaborative curricular expectations and assessment design/implementation approach together – strategies, challenges and successes. Student learning examples in various curricular areas and resources on the topic included.

Lampton Kent District School Board (LKDSB) Elementary Program Department. (2019, October 17). Learning Commons: Curriculum Expectations and Assessment [Video webinar]. Retrieved from http://lkelempro.blogspot.com/2019/10/learning-commons-curriculum.html


A teacher-librarian in Ontario blogs about improving practice and shares an excellent co-teaching plan sample for a media lesson.

Maliszewski, D. (2013). Getting Better. Monday Molly Musings.
http://mondaymollymusings.blogspot.ca/2013/11/getting-better.html