Clarify what you want to You need to determine the students need to perform

teach. knowledge and skills required and the key learning points
Develop your lesson plan of the students before they (KLPs) that they need to
based take the new lesson. The grasp and apply. Around 20%
on your school standards. teaching aids/materials of the KLPs are concepts and
See should also be shown early in 80% are how-to’s. Develop
what specific standards your your lesson plan. This way, if your students’ higher-order
lesson plan can address. someone else will use your thinking skills by using a
Aligning the lesson plan with lesson plan, they would know set of relevant guide
school standards helps to in advance what basic questions. It stimulates the
prove know-how and materials are interaction between and
its relevance and importance required. Be specific: make among the students and the
and assures that your sure the teacher.
students teachers will have everything
are being taught what your they Include extension ideas to
school requires. Also, keep in need. show how the lesson plan
mind what grade level you could be integrated within
are developing the lesson Write an anticipatory set the world of work.
plan for. Record a time to lead Putting a lot of work into this
estimate for your lesson planinto the lesson plan and can develop complete
to help in time budgeting. to thematic units that would
Once you have your topic, develop the students' integrate related topics into
you can begin determining interest in many different subjects and
how you want to teach it. learning what is about to career connections. This
be integration can be extremely
Develop clear and specific taught. helpful in ensuring retention
objectives. Use a motivational or warm- of the key learning points
To make sure your lesson up and fostering cooperation
plan will teach exactly what activity to introduce the and team spirit among
you want it to, develop lesson working groups.
performance-based where student involvement is
objectives. Objectives are the
learning outcomes of the key. The opening activity
activities to be used in the should tie
lesson plan. up the lesson objective with
Objectives should also be students’ interests and past
directly measurable so that learning experiences. Use Have some sort of closure
you can tell whether these creative strategies to get for the lesson plan
objectives students’ attention and Just before moving on to the
are met or not. To make motivate them to keep track assessment phase, you
objectives more meaningful, of the lesson. should provide a sense of
you may want to include both closure to the session. A
broad and narrow objectives. Write the step-by-step good idea for this is to return
procedures that will be to your anticipatory set or
Find out exactly what the performed to reach the opening activity/statement.
prerequisites are and the objectives including the
specific materials you are key discussion points. Write your assessment of
going to use. You should list the relevant students’
actions the teacher and the learning
You should have some sort of
evaluation of whether or not
the objectives were reached.
The key in developing your
assessment is to
make sure that the
assessment specifically
measures whether the
objectives were reached or
not. Thus, there should be a
direct correlation between
the objectives and the
assessments.

Provide time for

independent practice
After the procedures have
been completed, you may
want to provide time for
follow-up practice or
homework to enable your
students to immediately
apply the knowledge and
skills taught within or outside
the classroom.

Take into account the

individual
differences of students.
Adaptations should also be
made for students
with learning disabilities and
extensions for
others. Give remediation to
slow learners, reinforcement
to average learners and
enrichment for fast learners.
Quality lesson plans produce
quality students and
teachers.

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