Friday, August 26, 2011

Lesson Plans

Do you have a specific form for your lesson plans?

Is it useful to you?
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Elaine said...

I suppose I do have a specific way of doing lesson plans - but it is based on what we HAVE to show rather than what I would like to be writing myself. We need to show Objectives, success criteria, what we plan to cover in the lesson and our plenary session (the round up at the end of the lesson). If we are being observed/assessed on the lesson then we have to give a lot more detail, which I find very restricting - I prefer to 'go with the flow'.

August 26, 2011 at 3:32 PM
Anonymous said...

I was never actually given a formal curriculum to follow. I have always been on my own. I use a lesson plan book and a marble covered notebook. The notebook is where I jot down ideas, concepts and plan out units thoughtfully and constructively.

(one of the benefits of working with 4 year olds and depending where you work, most of the time you get flexibility to teach the way you want. This depends on where one works too, obviously)

August 26, 2011 at 5:01 PM
mathematicamama said...

I am one of 4 on the city curriculum committee for my specific math content area. We give very specific daily plans, we write each unit test and every quarterly test, and we will probably write a new exam soon. We did this, writing it more for the beginning teacher, or someone teaching geometry for the first time. Every week each teacher must post their lesson plans online for admin to see, and use during observations. As a content team in the school, we are able to use this "pre-done" curriculum as long as we customize it to our individual level (regular, honors, repeaters, etc). If you would like a sample let me know.

August 27, 2011 at 7:17 AM
Ricochet said...

Mathematicamama - yes I would love a copy.

I fear this is more of the same: a lesson plan format with all these bells and whistles (which can be wonderful), in an order not relevant to how I think or teach. Something that will take hours every week to accomplish, but they say we can use it again next year. And next year it will be a NEW IMPROVED version, that uses nothing from this year, is in a format that is not how I teach or think, and takes hours every week to do.

Can anyone say Sisyphus?

August 27, 2011 at 8:55 AM
Unknown said...

we have one that just got tweaked over the summer! i really like it and use it, um, when i have to write lessons...otherwise i just use my own pigeon version! :D

August 28, 2011 at 6:02 AM

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