Lesson planning

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Definition

See also the instructional design article that addresses very similar issue from a more "industrial" point of vue.

Lesson planning tools

• See also tools like Learning Activity Management System (LAMS), MOTD, etc. that also can be used as lesson planning tools

Lesson planning guide example

We provide a short summary of El-Tigi's Write a Lesson Plan Guide with some language modified:

While planning a lesson, a teacher should think about each of the following categories:

1. Goals: Think about (1) broad objectives of the course, (2) goals of the particular lesson, (3) what students should be able to achieve after the lesson.
2. Objectives within the lesson: Define what your students will do to acquire further knowledge and skills and how they will be able to demonstrate that they have learned.
3. Prerequisites
4. Materials: What will be needed, e.g. what is available (make a list/bibliography) and what will have to be preparred.
5. Lesson Description: Describe the general focus of the lesson and include thoughts to share with other teachers. May include learning level.
6. Lesson Procedure
   1. Introduction: Describe how you introduce ideas and objectives, get student's attention and motivation, etc.
   2. Main activity: Define the sequence of activities, in particular pedagogic methods like presentation, demonstration, explanation, discussion.
   3. Closure/conclusion: Describe how you plan to draw ideas together and to provide feedback to students.
   4. Follow up Lessons / Activities:
7. Assessment / Evaluation: Define how you will assess student's learning. Also evaluate if students engaged in suggested practice.

Lesson planning software

• http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~s2s/latest/lesson3/Lesson. Planning Tool assists elementary school teachers in making lesson plans that fulfiill the Texas Education Agency (TEA) guidelines.

Links

Lesson planning, A teaching/learning module for teachers from the TILE support tool from the Kite project.

References

• Fink, Dee, Planning your Course: A Decision guide, Instructional Development Program, University of Oklahoma, Word Document. Quote: “Whenever teachers plan or design their courses, they are in essence making a series of decisions aimed at creating a "design," which in this case consists of a plan of activities for what the teacher and students will do in a course. This guide identifies the several decisions involved in designing a course, places these decisions in an appropriate sequence, and suggests ways to make good decisions.”. This guide also includes worksheets.

• El-Tigi, Manal (1999). Write a Lesson Plan Guide, The Educator's Reference Desk, HTML retrieved 18:30, 27 June 2006 (MEST). This short guide also includes a library of examples and further pointers.