Embedded Files
The first stage of planning is to consider your course as a whole - and construct an overview of what you will be doing week by week. You may find you need to adjust the plan as you are going along to meet the needs of an individual student group. However, having an overall plan will still give you a basic structure for the course.
Start with your course outline
Start with your course outline
Your published course outline tells students what they will learn on your course and is a guide to what you should cover. The course outline for your course can be found on the City Lit website.
Construct a Course Plan (Scheme of Work)
Construct a Course Plan (Scheme of Work)
From the course outline, you need to decide on the topics/outcomes you will cover each week and construct an overview plan for the course. This is called a Scheme of Work. There are examples of schemes of work and templates on the following link: https://www.citylit.ac.uk/schemes-work-and-lesson-plans
Tips for organising your course
Tips for organising your course
The most important thing when planning a course is to plan sessions in a logical sequence, where one session leads to the next, building on learners' understanding and skill step by step.
Below are some hints:
Start of course
Start with icebreakers, housekeeping, initial assessment, and discussing the course outcomes and programme with learners. More on what to include in a first session is here
Plan an engaging activity or topic that gets students into your subject straight away and allows you to see how new they are to the subject.
Middle
Make sure your course is logically staged, so students build up their learning as you go along.
Consider how you will check learning regularly.
Plan regular recaps and reviews of learning.
End
Finish with an activity that enables students to pull all they have learned together. Give students time to reflect on and/celebrate what they have achieved.
Discuss with learners what they can do next.
Ask students to complete part 2 of their Individual Record of Learning
Remind students to evaluate the course online
If you find forms/writing plans difficult.....
If you find forms/writing plans difficult.....
If you are dyslexic, or there is some other reason forms do not work for you, try doing your scheme of work and/or lesson plans as mind maps or other visual way of organising. For example: write topics on post-it notes and rearrange them.
Page updated
Report abuse