3577. Is It Hard for You to Lesson Plan? Some Tips for You

At least in the north hemisphere of our world we in schools are more or less near another end of another school year. Perhaps we teach remotely or face-to-face, or we may be combining both in a hybrid way. We may be tired. But we have to keep the rhythm. 

Now I would like to give you some tips for lesson planning. When doing that, I would tell you first to think of a few goals, with our dear students in mind – they may be adorable people although they may give us a lot of work to do and to manage their behavior. 

So let’s think of a few goals, like the main points about those specific students and what they are in want of now. I just said few but this morning I thought of… seven aims or goals for a single lesson. 

Anyway, if we think of more goals we will find ourselves with nearly already thought activities to implement during the lesson: more goals thought of, more activities already thought of. 

Now what? I’d say that when thinking of those aims or goals, we should think also of trying for our dear students to improve and better as persons. Each lesson ought to be one step forward, should be one step forward. 

Then next, let’s think of the activities we are going to carry out along the class, both by the teacher and by the students themselves. In other words, let’s think also about what the students will do and not only what I (their teacher) am going to do. 

Finally let us not forget about setting and assigning some homework, so they can reinforce what learned in the lesson, or they may search on their own about some point we could exploit next lesson in the classroom. 

And lesson planning should be practical: we will not dedicate too much time to that activity. You have my backup for this end of the academic year! Oh, and I would tell you to write down that lesson plan and have it with you on the lesson. Currently I write all the lesson plans on a notebook, and thus on coming months I could have a look at previous lesson plans in search for activities that worked fine. You can prefer to use an iPad or something. Also your students will see you’ve worked hard and that’ll mean one point in favor of your moral authority with your students.