How to Write a Lesson Plan

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is Laura Turner and today I'm going to give you some tips on how to write a lesson plan. The first thing you want to do in writing your lesson plan is to be as organized as possible. That being said, you're going to want to actually write down your notes, and this helps me a lot, on a note card. Especially if you're going to be giving a lecture or you're going to be doing something along those lines. You're going to want to be able to have your notes with you, so start off by writing down notes on your note card, but don't write too much, because you're going to want to be able to refer to them as your bullet points rather than you know sort of a long something that you're going to have to read off of the note card. Okay. Next actually list the materials you need for the class either on the note card or on the separate sheet of paper that you're going to take with you. If you need for example construction paper, copies of something that you were reading in class, you know highlighters, any materials that you need for yourself or the students in order to accomplish the lesson. Just to make things a little bit more streamlined for you. Next actually make copies of everything that you need before you go to class. This is something that you can do you know extremely ahead of time if you organize yourself correctly. Okay. Fourthly, the thing that I like to do, is I actually like to break up the class into thirds. First I like to introduce what we're going to do today. Then I like to elaborate on how we're going to explore what we're going to learn today. And then as the third part I like to actually include a group project, so you don't really want to be standing up there the entire time in your class just talking to the students. You actually want them to be able to give you feedback, and also to give each other feedback on what they're learning. So try to incorporate different learning styles into your lesson plan, okay. And finally decide on what the result of the lesson is going to be. And this is when your note cards come back into play. You can actually plan your entire class on your note cards, and then have you know your conclusion card as something that you can go and you can refer to throughout the process of preparing your class. So always have a goal to your class, especially if you have to turn in your lesson plan to a supervisor and you have to have all of your stuff written out neatly. Okay. So good luck."