When planning lessons for students, it is crucial to ensure that the audience and objectives are thought through before anything else. Creating clear objectives that are attainable for your students makes choosing activities and technological tools a much smoother and simpler process. Using technology is highly beneficial to student learning, but ensuring that you, as the educator, understand and can easily navigate the technology that you will use during lessons helps to keep students focused. 

While the modern student has a large appreciation for technology, it can easily be a distraction. By learning to navigate all technology tools yourself, you can be sure that you will not lose the attention of you students while instructing due to technology issues. This also helps you to  monitor student work, as you are able to recognize what appropriate educational sights look like.

Planning lessons is extremely important, but so is reviewing them. Educators should always end lessons with some form of assessment. Whether that be a disscusion, worksheet, or test does not matter, as long as you pay attention and learn from it. By recording student growth and comparing student performance to lesson objectives, you can rework the lesson as weel as future lessons, to make sure that current and future years of students get the best learning possible out of your lessons.