Learning
Plan a lesson
A timed plan, the slides and a worksheet, for one class.
Fill it in
What they should leave knowing.
Age or level.
How long the class is.
min
With an answer key.
Your prompt
Plan a 45-minute lesson on [your topic] for [your year group]. Time every section and add up the total. A plan that runs over is a plan that never reaches the part where students practise, and practice is where the learning happens; the plenary being cut is the most common failure of a lesson plan. Start with the misconception. Most topics have one specific wrong idea students arrive with, and a lesson that does not name it teaches around it. Build in a check for understanding before you move on, and say what you do if half the room has not got it. Produce a printable worksheet with an answer key, with the questions in increasing difficulty and one that stretches whoever finishes first.
Use Plan a lessonOpens with everything above already filled in.
Why this works
The plenary being cut is the most common failure of a lesson plan, because the timings were optimistic and practice is where the learning happens. This times every section and adds it up. It also names the specific misconception students arrive with, which an unnamed one teaches around.
Questions
- Do I get a worksheet?
- Yes, printable, with an answer key and something for whoever finishes first.