Education Tips - Lesson Planning

Many seasoned teachers are able to walk into their classroom without having planned their lessons. They have become so familiar with their subject that they don't need to plan how to deliver their lessons anymore. In my opinion this is a somewhat objectionable way of educating. Teaching is a dynamic process and a successful teacher needs to make appealing lessons which accommodate the ever changing mindsets of his/her students.


Lesson planning can be divided in two: Schemes of Work and Lesson Plans. Schemes of work will allow you to plan in the long run. To create a scheme of work, choose a time-period and create a grid of days or weeks. You can add as much detail as you want (example a scheme of work showing daily lessons is more detailed than a scheme of work showing weekly lessons). In the scheme of work you need to set deadlines for when certain topics need to be finished. After you create your scheme of work, you need to make sure that you create lessons plans complimenting what you have planned in the scheme of work. Lesson Plans will detail how you need to deliver individual lessons and will allow you to add all the details you want in order to capture the attention of individual students in your classroom. Making your own lesson plans will allow you to deliver targeted content, for example: if your class are very interested in a particular movies, you can create a website with the theme of that movie. Lessons should allow room for individuality in the classroom and can be seen as a way of communicating particular topics in an interesting way.
I will be making more posts about lesson plans, giving more tips and downloadable lesson-plan formats...so stick around :)