Lesson Planning

This year I have decided to change up the way that I write my lesson plans. I have created a Google Doc that is a similar layout to the hard copy teacher planner. Having my lesson plans available electronically means that I can constantly add to them no matter where I am. I also like that I am able to pull up the doc on my computer in class to refer to it and even show my senior students where we are headed as we lead up to an assessment. The boxes I have for each lesson are limited to a particular size so if I have lots of notes to write down I can do so easily.

This is an example of how I completing my lesson plans. I personally like to write my lesson plans into bullet points of key teaching moments and activities. I can then transfer exactly what I have written here onto the board for a lesson outline that the students can follow. We can then tick off each activity once it has been completed and if we don't quite finish everything it is easy for me to cut and paste it into the next period's box. I can also highlight notes to myself that I don't want to forget or important meetings that I need to remember. At the beginning of each lesson I identify the unit or achievement standard we are working towards - this will make it easier, in the future, to go back over unit's of work I have done this year to re-use structure and activities.

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