Lesson Planning Basics

How to Write a Lesson Plan

1. Think of 'What do you want your student(s) to do?'

2. Develop your activities and assessments based around that question. 'What do you want your student(s) to do at the END of the lesson?'

3. Is what you want your students to do aligned to a task or tasks on your CTE program task list?

4. Write your lesson objective to reflect what you're asking them to do.

5. Activities should be arranged and designed to provide students with multiple 'on-ramps' (Opportunities for student engagement - Discussion, practice, oral questions, printed diagrams, videos, pretest, reading an article, etc...)

6. Assessments should be aligned to the end goal of the lesson. Does the assessment give evidence that the student has completed the desired outcome?

7. What resources will you need to complete the lesson?

8. Are there students that will need more support? (IEP and EL students) How will you support them?

Lesson Plan Templates

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