Weekly Lesson Plan Template | Preschool | PDF | Word
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Being prepared is crucial to success, and teaching effectively is no different. With the long-term learning objectives of your class in mind, you can construct effective plans using weekly lesson plan templates.
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To begin writing your lesson plan, you should consider several aspects that will guide your plan:
- Learning objectives
- Time
- Available materials
- Your students
- Assessment
Learning Objectives
Perhaps the most important considerations when creating lesson plans are learning objectives. Your state and school district likely have specific standards for each subject that students must meet depending on their grade level. With these in mind, you can be sure that your lessons include activities that will help students meet these standards. For example, for the fifth grade math standard requiring students to recognize the place value system, you could schedule activities that teach students that in a multiple-digit sequence, each digit to the left is ten times greater.
Writing out individual daily or weekly objectives for each subject, based on the course objectives, can really help you focus your planning.
Time
As with any type of schedule, every activity you plan has to fit into the daily and weekly allotted time. Even if you only plan one activity for one lesson, you still have to consider how long it will take to get the students ready and have them complete it. Allow flexibility as well. For instance, if you a introducing a major literary figure to your High School English class, consider briefly discussing the author’s historical context and his or her effect on literature, and include the amount of time this will take in your plan.
Materials
Understanding the materials you need is another important part of the lesson plan. Even for a simple written exercise, you will need to have enough copies for every student. Videos and visual presentations can be a great way to introduce or demonstrate a lesson, but you need to plan ahead to make sure you have the right equipment and file formats.
Creating a weekly lesson plan is simple with Microsoft Word or another word-processing program. Simply use the Insert tab on the toolbar to insert a table with the appropriate number of columns and rows. Then, for example, you could fill the cells on the top row with each subject you teach, and the cells on the left-most column with the days of the week. Then you can note the specific activities and materials you will use to complete each day’s lesson for each subject.
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