Secondary Teachers: Lesson Plans

How is your planning done?

In a lesson plan book or on a formal sheet of paper like in college classes?

Do you list the standards?

Does your district/school specify how lesson planning needs to be done?

Re: Secondary Teachers: Lesson Plans

I do weekly plans in Microsoft word. I like to do them on the computer - makes it so much easier to send to multiple people.

My math coordinator likes to see certain things, so they are pretty detailed, and always includes the standards.

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I do mine on the computer as well. We have to list:

Date
Subject
Materials
Warm-up
Lesson
Follow-up
Homework

Re: Secondary Teachers: Lesson Plans

ours are not collected... only when we are observed, and when that happens, i write them in the madeline hunter format...

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I use the traditional plan book for a brief summary of what I'm doing. My AP looks at it from time to time. Then, I have a template that I use for the actual lesson that's much more detailed. Ideally, it's all typed, but sometimes I fill in the template by hand.

Re: Secondary Teachers: Lesson Plans

Ours aren't collected. I just write mine out.

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Last year, mine were collected every Friday and they were very detailed. Motivation, Do Now, PowerPoint Details, Activity, Summary. I typed them all up. My chair checked them.

This year (new school) the principal said he will collect them every few weeks and he wants to see standards.....ugh!!!!

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My dept chair had a specific format he wanted and I typed them. This is my tenure year and he let me off the hook!!!!

I HATED doing them because I had my own method and would wind up writing lesson over for him.

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i write in my lesson plan book the topic and the HW

My "lesson plan" is written on looseleaf and it is just what examples i am doing and definitions and steps (math teacher)

WHen I was untenured our DC collected the plans. With tenure my DC looks at just out plan books

Re: Secondary Teachers: Lesson Plans

Ours are not collected.

I write mine in 2 places because I am a little OCD. I write detailed plans in a chart form in the binder with the unit I am teaching (these are typed). I also write the basics in my plan book so I can see a visual of the weeks, months, etc...

Message edited 8/22/2007 9:00:08 AM.

Re: Secondary Teachers: Lesson Plans

Ours is done anyway that we would like, we just have to hand a copy of it in once a week.

Re: Secondary Teachers: Lesson Plans

Our department chair collects plan books every Monday for untenured teachers and every other Monday for tenured teachers. I was extremely detailed my first year. Now I just include the Aim, Do Now, Activity, and Homework. I did my plans on the computer last year, so I handed it in a binder, but I hated it, so this year I am going back to writing it in a plan book. Every department chair does it differently in our building.