You can use either Explicit Instruction or Self-Regulated Strategy Development when you intervene to support your student's problem solving skills. The following lesson plan targets a specific problem-solving skill using explicit instruction. As you read this plan, consider:
How does this plan support objective mastery?
Problem Solving Intervention Plan
Art, E. (2017). Problem solving intervention packet. New York, NY: Relay Graduate School of Education.
This lesson plan supports objective mastery because the teacher employs Principles of Specialized instruction to help the student visualize Part/Part/Whole (Part Unknown) problems to identify what she is supposed to figure out. In this lesson plan, she isolates the skill (identifying what the problem is), and uses explicit instruction to teach the student how to identify two what is happening in the story and what she is trying to figure out. After she explains the process she'll take, she uses metacognition and shows the student how she asks these two questions as she is reading. Finally, she builds in multiple at-bats so that the student has the opportunity to practice this strategy over and over so that she can reach her objective.