How long does it take you to write lesson plans for the week?
December 62009
I’m a 10th grade history teacher, i hate lesson plans! It takes me a while to write them for the week… I was wondering how long it takes other teachers to write their weeks worth of lesson plans?
The first time you teach a new course, it is difficult because you need to read the content and write your lesson plans. The beauty is that if you keep them, you can simply pull them out the next time you teach the course and they are done (although you may want to tweak them depending upon what works or not).
In my first year of teaching high school, I would devote about one and a half to two hours a night for the next day’s lesson. I did good lessons, kept them in a binder, and simply pull them out when I teach that course. My second year was significantly easier because of this.
Remember, the time you put into your lessons will pay dividends for your students and your own self-confidence and will make your life easier in subsequent years.
December 6th, 2009 at 2:19 pm
It really depends on what your school requires you to submit. We don’t have to submit a whole lot of detail so it doesn’t take me that long. Most of my plan is in my head. It takes me longer to think things through and map out my idea than it does to write up the plans.
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December 6th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
I know I should have them done for the week but I usually make a skeleton of what I want to do for the week and then play it by ear. For example, since I’m teaching math and say I wanted to do "Order of Operation," I may do notes on Monday; Tuesday a solid warm-up with a few practice problems with homework in the practice book; Wednesday take questions on the homework; Thursday work out of the textbook and Friday take the quiz.
Since my school is in program improvement, our principal wants our lesson plans at the beginning of the week but I turn mine in on Friday after school because this way, she can see exactly what I did all week and I have the quiz attached to give to her.
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December 6th, 2009 at 3:00 pm
The first time you teach a new course, it is difficult because you need to read the content and write your lesson plans. The beauty is that if you keep them, you can simply pull them out the next time you teach the course and they are done (although you may want to tweak them depending upon what works or not).
In my first year of teaching high school, I would devote about one and a half to two hours a night for the next day’s lesson. I did good lessons, kept them in a binder, and simply pull them out when I teach that course. My second year was significantly easier because of this.
Remember, the time you put into your lessons will pay dividends for your students and your own self-confidence and will make your life easier in subsequent years.
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High School science teacher
December 6th, 2009 at 3:36 pm
Depends on who is going to read them. If you are on your own, there are lesson plans in your teachers edition, use that as a guide. To me lesson plans were a guide, for a week at a time, if I got there ok if not ok to. All different if you are new or starting a new subject, then do your homework.
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