Lesson Plan Template Ideas
Lesson planning is one of the most important skill a teacher can learn. With a well-designed lesson plan, you will set up each of your students to learn exactly what you want them to know. The responsibility for learning the material is the student's, but your lesson plan should provide the structure through which your students' motivation can take root.
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Basic Parts
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Although your lesson templates can be revised to suit the needs of your students, each one should contain the same basic components. Near the top of the template you should include an area that details what you hope the students will learn by the end of the lesson. Also leave an area to list any materials you might need for the lesson and an area that allows you to write down the step-by-step procedures for what the students are to do during the lesson. Your lesson template should also have an assessment area near the end that relates how you will know the students learned what you wanted them to.
Adaptations
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If there are students in your class who have learning disabilities, learn at different rates or learn in different ways, compose a template that adapts a lesson to these different learning styles. Your template can still have the basic structure as outlined above, but under each section, include adaptation areas that allow you to detail how you will change each section to suit the needs of your students. The objective(s) for the lesson should remain the same, but the ways in which you assess these other students will probably be different because you'll have to use different materials and procedures for teaching the lesson.
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Extensions
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You might also have students in your class who are gifted or learn at a much faster rate than the rest of the class. Your lesson template should take into account these students so that they remain engaged with the work they are doing. The basic structure of the lesson, including the objectives, the materials, and the procedures should remain the same, but include a section at the end of your template for extensions. If you see that your students are completing the work you set out in the lesson plan early or they are doing it rather easily, give them something extra to work on, such as questions to a case study.
Connections
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Other template ideas might take into account the connections you can make with the lesson you are teaching and another lesson you did or might be teaching at another time. Your students will learn better if they can make connections to other subject areas. Include a "connections" section near the beginning or end of your lesson template that allows you to detail exactly what in this lesson relates to another lesson. In this section, you should write down what benefit the connection will have for your students. Although you should have a specific section set out for "connections," the other sections of your template can convey those connections as well. For instance, in the objectives section, state what you want your students to learn but also state how that objective builds upon what they just learned.
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References
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