Friday, July 29, 2011

What does one of your full lesson plans look like?Want to know what is included: daily plans,vocab,tests,etc. Thanks.

There are generally three types of lesson plans that could be most aptly referred to as beginner, novice, and veteran.
As a new teacher (beginner) it is often necessary, as well as wise, to type out a minute-by-minute plan of your ENTIRE day. This includes warm-up exercises, objectives, lesson introductions, questions you plan to use to probe for higher-level thinking, notes on who you will group together, book names and page numbers of workbook pages, assessment, assignments, etc.
As a novice, you may be able to cut much of that material out, such as the timing. The plan might just contain objectives, book titles, and page numbers, and assignments. At this level, you should have already learned about how much time it takes your students to get things accomplished.
Do yourself an enormous favor: Create a blank template of a plan that works for you. Make sure it contains check-off boxes of standards. Leave phrases in the appropriate places, such as "The student will be able to..." It saves a great deal of time and if you are lucky enough to have you plans routinely reviewed, it will be easy for the reviewer to find what he/she is looking to find.
The veteran often uses a "block plan". This can either be notes about book titles and page numbers within a daily planner, or jotted on a period-by-period weekly printout.

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