Lesson Planning
As we head into a new academic year, I thought it might be useful to share how I plan lessons as an experienced teacher. I plan in two different ways, either lesson by lesson or as a unit. I much prefer planning a unit at a time and do find in the long run it saves time, but I have old habits of planning a single lesson at a time that kick in. Lesson by lesson planning The pros of this are that you can be immediately flexible based on last lesson as you are directly planning for one specific lesson based on their performance the previous lesson. The cons are that you can easily end up just re-using an old resource or find one online. Which sounds fine, but it needs adapting! With the lesson at a time planning the lure of "well, I've got a lesson so I'm fine" is there. There's also the issue of timing. Some days of teaching are long and difficult and draining and the last thing you want is to do deep thinking and planning afterwards. Which means either you end u...