PLANNING LESSONS

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PLANNING LESSONS

• October
• 2005
• Dimensions 3.1.1, 3.1.2

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Objectives for this session

• To understand the difference between lesson
  plans, lesson notes and schemes of work
• To understand teaching objectives and learning
  outcomes
• To explore the elements of a well structured
  lesson

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PLANNING ELEMENTS

• LESSON (EPISODE) PLAN
• Detailed planning sheet showing all elements of
  a lesson.
• LESSON NOTES Aides memoires
• Teacher prompt sheets in class notes,
  questions, diagrams, etc.

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• SCHEME OF WORK
• Overview of a series of lessons for teaching a
  topic (outline lesson plans and resources may be
  included).
• -OR-
• Overview of the sequence of topics for a term, a
  year or a Key Stage.
• See QCA Schemes of Work for KS3

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Progressive planning

• Episodes
• Lessons
• Topics
• Scheme of Work

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IN THE BEGINNING...

• TEACHING OBJECTIVES what the teacher intends
  pupils to learn
• WALT - We Are Learning Today
• LEARNING OUTCOMES achievement that may be
  demonstrated by pupils (which you can assess)
• WILF What Im Looking For
• Assessment for Learning DfES 0043-2004

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• Setting teaching objectives and learning outcomes
  enables
• assessment of pupils learning
• evaluation of teaching

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EVERY LESSON HAS A STRUCTURE
INTRO
ENDING
BODY OF LESSON
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ALTERNATIVELY, The centipede model
- a lesson with several segments
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Head Introduction

• Link to previous lesson
• OR
• Introduce a new topic link with previous
  learning
• Outline the flow of the lesson activities and
  approximate timings
• Share learning objectives with group

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Main Body of the lesson

• Variety of activities
• Practical and/or Theory
• Challenging but manageable tasks
• Differentiation by task or outcome?
• Extension activities / Support materials
• Resources

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Tail Ending

• Summary and rounding off (plenary)
• Check back on achievement of objectives
• (e.g. Q and A to check understanding)
• Set homework (if needed)
• Look forward to next lesson

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Considerations

• pupils previous knowledge/experience
• your own subject knowledge
• concepts/skills to develop
• teaching strategies to use
• resources available
• classroom management
• contextual constraints (eg. time of day/term/year)

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A lesson plan should include

• pupil information
• curriculum information (KS, AT, etc)
• opportunities for x-curricular development
  (literacy, numeracy, key skills, thinking skills,
  etc)
• assessment
• resources
• .. as well as what you actually intend to do!
• Subject handbook p 12-13

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after the lesson ...

• evaluation is essential
• 1. THE GOOD PARTS (celebrate repeat)
• 2. THE NOT-SO-GOOD BITS (dont do it like that
  again!)
• Evaluation notes for ALL teaching
• (eg annotate lesson plan)
• TWICE per week detailed written evaluation
• (linked to an agenda during SBW)

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• Further information
• ICT subject handbook, p12-13
• KS3 ICT framework p33-34
• Kennewell, Parkinson Tanner (2004) Learning to
  Teach ICT in the Secondary School chs. 4 and 5

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Objectives for this session

• To understand the difference between lesson
  plans, lesson notes and schemes of work
• To understand teaching objectives and learning
  outcomes
• To explore the elements of a well structured
  lesson