Planning

Every time you teach it has to be planned really well.

Why?
 Detailed lesson planning is designed to build competence as a teacher
 Planning helps you manage your time effectively and this is one of the greatest
challenges for new teachers
 Expert teachers spend a very large of time planning – they are constantly thinking
about their teaching and looking for new ways of making it easy for students to learn

How do we write an effective lesson plan

What are the qualities of a good lesson plan?

 Allows you to know what you are doing
 Detailed (but compact)
 Easy to read and follow
 Suits different users
 Fits into the Big Picture

Planning Cycle
Components of a lesson plan
What information needs to be in a lesson plan?
 General Information
 Curriculum Content Description
 Prior Knowledge and Experience
 Learning Objectives
o Focus on only 2 or 3
o Curriculum outcome, Unit outcome, Lesson outcome

Bloom’s 3 domains of learning outcomes

 Cognitive domain – mental processes
o Remember
o Understand
o Apply
o Analyse
o Evaluate
o Create
 Psychomotor domain – control of body movements and physical actions
 Affective domain – feelings, attitudes, values
Anderson and Krathwohl’s categories of knowledge
 Factual knowledge
 Conceptual knowledge
 Procedural knowledge
 Metacognitive knowledge
 Evaluation
o Collect work and mark
o Get them to mark their own work
o Go around with checklist, reading through answers

 Preparation and Resources

o Book science lab stuff, eg. Ph indicator experiment

 Catering for Diversity

o Learning disorder
o Hearing impairment
o Dyslexia
o Student away for last few weeks
o Simpler formatted worksheet
o Juicy question at the end for high flyers
Functions of a lesson plan

Why do we write plans?

Teaching tool
 To prepare us mentally – purpose, instructions, flow, focus questions
o How are we going to introduce the topic?
o Do we meet students at the door or let them come in?
o How to engage students?

Administrative
 To assist Heads of Dept and Senior teachers in planning and reporting
 Professional accountability

 Record of what we have taught – accountability

Moderation
 To demonstrate whether teachers are teaching similar content and concepts

 Make sure not harder or easier than other schools

Relief teaching
 To assist teachers, who may know nothing about your subject or students, to conduct
a smooth lesson

Why do we lesson plan?

 Professional responsibility
 Important part of communication to our mentors
 Practice and preparation
 Demonstrates to others our understanding of the
teaching process
 Supports us
 Evidence of developing AITSL standards
 Record of our learning journey
 To provide evidence of our work