You learned about creating a welcoming and safe learning environment for your learner in the Tutor Essentials training. As you remember, having a set routine for every session is actually a trauma-informed tutoring practice. This means that, at least for the first sessions, you can follow this lesson plan to build your routine. As you get to know each other you can make the routine your own.  But if this plan works for you and your learner - great! There's no reason to change it up if everyone is learning and has room to grow. 

Please note that creating a lesson is personal and can be adapted to the tutor and learner preference. Some tutors plan with sticky notes, some use templates, others use calendars. There are a wide variety of tools to get you started and it's your job to figure out which one works best for you! This curriculum is meant to be a guide and to show you one way of doing things - but there is no one way to lesson plan! Trust yourself and your insights - even if you just started!

You might have encountered other terms for parts of the lesson (production, practice, icebreaker etc.) but we're using these so it's more accessible to those tutors without an education instruction background. 

On this page, you'll find the 6 parts of the lesson plan:

1. Warm up

2. Review

3. New Material

4. Review + Assess

5. Learner Reflection + Recap

6. Tutor Reflection

Visit the activities page to get ideas about what to do with your learner for each of these parts. You'll also have a chance to create your own activity bank when you get to Day 2.5.