10 Steps To Developing A Quality Lesson Plan:
This guide is not meant to be the one and only way to develop a lesson plan. It is a general
overview that highlights the key points of creating a lesson plan. Below is a list of the steps
involved in developing a lesson plan as well as a description of what each component
should be. You may also find this new Lesson Plan Template to be useful for creating your
lesson plans!
1. The first thing to consider, obviously, is what you want to teach. This should be developed
based upon your state (or school) standards. You also need to be aware of what grade level
you are developing the lesson plan for (and keep that in mind of course), and also record a
time estimate for your lesson plan to help in time budgeting. Once you have your topic, you
can begin determining how you want to teach the topic. If you didn't use the state standards
to help in developing your topic, refer to them now to see what specific standards your
lesson plan can fulfill. Having your lesson plan correctly aligned with state standards helps to
prove its worthiness and necessity. It also helps in assuring that your students are being taught
what your state requires. If you are able to correlate your lesson plan with standards, record
links to those standards in your lesson plan. If writing this lesson plan for a website (The Lesson
Plans Page) be sure to include a title that properly reflects your topic.
2. To make sure your lesson plan will teach exactly what you want it to; you need to develop
clear and specific objectives. Please note that objectives should not be activities that will
be used in the lesson plan. They should instead be the learning outcomes of those activities.
As an example, if you wanted to teach your class how to add 2 + 3, your objective may be
that "the students will know how to add 2 + 3" or more specifically "the students will
demonstrate how to add 2 + 3."
Objectives should also be directly measurable (we'll get to this in assessment / evaluation). In
other words, make sure you will be able to tell whether these objectives were met or not. You
can certainly have more than one objective for a lesson plan.
To make objectives more meaningful, you may want to include both broad and narrow
objectives. The broad objectives would be more like goals and include the overall goal of
the lesson plan, i.e. to gain familiarity with adding two numbers together. The specific
objectives would be more like the one listed above, i.e. "the students will demonstrate how
to add the numbers 2 and 3 together."
3. You would probably find out exactly what materials you are going to use later, but they
should be shown early in your lesson plan. This way if someone else were going to use your
lesson plan, they would know in advance what materials are required. Be specific here to
make sure the teacher will have everything they need. For the addition lesson, you should
make sure you have 10 or so unifix cubes per student, paper, and pencils.
4. You may also want to write an Anticipatory Set, which would be a way to lead into the
lesson plan and develop the students' interest in learning what is about to be taught. A good
example deals with a lesson on fractions. The teacher could start by asking the students how
they would divide up a pizza to make sure each of their 5 friends got an equal amount of
pizza, and tell them that they can do this if they know how to work with fractions.
5. Now you need to write the step-by-step procedures that will be performed to reach the
objectives. These don't have to involve every little thing the teacher will say and do, but they
should list the relevant actions the teacher needs to perform. For the adding 2 + 3 lesson, you
may have procedures such as these:
A. The teacher will give each child 2 unifix cubes.
B. The teacher will ask the students to write down how many unifix cubes they have on paper
(2).
C. The students should then write a + sign below the number 2, like this:
2
+
D. The teacher will then pass out 3 more unifix cubes to each student.
E. The students will be asked to write down how many unifix cubes they were just given. They
should write this number below the number 2 that they just wrote, so that it looks like this:
2
+3
F. Students should now draw a line under their 3.
G. Now the students should count how many unifix cubes they have together and write this
number just below the 3, like this:
2
+3
----
5
H. Ask students how many unifix cubes they had to start, how many they were given to add to
that, and how many they had total after the teacher gave them the 3 unifix cubes.
6. After the procedures have been completed, you may want to provide time for
independent practice. For the example of above, students could be given time to add
different numbers of unifix cubes together that a partner would provide them with.
7. Just before moving on to the assessment phase you should have some sort of closure for
the lesson plan. A good idea for this is to return to your anticipatory set, i.e. ask students how
they would divide up that pizza now that they know how to work with fractions (refer to the
example in step 4).
8. Now you want to write your assessment / evaluation. Many lesson plans don't necessarily
need an assessment, but most should have some sort of evaluation of whether or not the
objectives were reached. The key in developing your assessment is to make sure that the
assessment specifically measures whether the objectives were reached or not. Thus, there
should be a direct correlation between the objectives and the assessments. Assuming the
objective were to be able to add two single digit numbers together, an example would be to
have students approach the teacher and add two single digit numbers (that the teacher
provides via unifix cubes) on paper using unifix cubes as a guide.
9. Adaptations should also be made for students with learning disabilities and extensions for
others. Examples would be adding 1 unifix cube to 1 unifix cube for students with learning
disabilities and adding 9 unifix cubes to 13 unifix cubes for gifted students. This is best done
with specific adaptations for specific students, to take into account their individual
differences.
10. It's also a good idea to include a "Connections" section, which shows how the lesson plan
could be integrated with other subjects. An example would be to have students paint 2
apples, then 3 more apples below them, etc. to integrate Art into the lesson plan. A better
integration would involve creating 2 or 3 different types of textures on those apples,
assuming texture was being studied in art class. Putting a lot of work into this can develop
complete thematic units that would integrate related topics into many different subjects.
This repetition of topics in different subjects can be extremely helpful in ensuring retention of
the material.
That's it! If you followed all the instructions above, you've successfully written a very thorough
lesson plan that will be useful for any other teachers wanting to teach such a topic. One of
the most helpful tips in writing your first lesson plans would be to look at lesson plans that are
already fully developed to get a better idea of what needs to be in the lesson plan.
With many thanks to Lessons Plans Page
This guide is not meant to be the one and only way to develop a lesson plan. It is a general
overview that highlights the key points of creating a lesson plan. Below is a list of the steps
involved in developing a lesson plan as well as a description of what each component
should be. You may also find this new Lesson Plan Template to be useful for creating your
lesson plans!
1. The first thing to consider, obviously, is what you want to teach. This should be developed
based upon your state (or school) standards. You also need to be aware of what grade level
you are developing the lesson plan for (and keep that in mind of course), and also record a
time estimate for your lesson plan to help in time budgeting. Once you have your topic, you
can begin determining how you want to teach the topic. If you didn't use the state standards
to help in developing your topic, refer to them now to see what specific standards your
lesson plan can fulfill. Having your lesson plan correctly aligned with state standards helps to
prove its worthiness and necessity. It also helps in assuring that your students are being taught
what your state requires. If you are able to correlate your lesson plan with standards, record
links to those standards in your lesson plan. If writing this lesson plan for a website (The Lesson
Plans Page) be sure to include a title that properly reflects your topic.
2. To make sure your lesson plan will teach exactly what you want it to; you need to develop
clear and specific objectives. Please note that objectives should not be activities that will
be used in the lesson plan. They should instead be the learning outcomes of those activities.
As an example, if you wanted to teach your class how to add 2 + 3, your objective may be
that "the students will know how to add 2 + 3" or more specifically "the students will
demonstrate how to add 2 + 3."
Objectives should also be directly measurable (we'll get to this in assessment / evaluation). In
other words, make sure you will be able to tell whether these objectives were met or not. You
can certainly have more than one objective for a lesson plan.
To make objectives more meaningful, you may want to include both broad and narrow
objectives. The broad objectives would be more like goals and include the overall goal of
the lesson plan, i.e. to gain familiarity with adding two numbers together. The specific
objectives would be more like the one listed above, i.e. "the students will demonstrate how
to add the numbers 2 and 3 together."
3. You would probably find out exactly what materials you are going to use later, but they
should be shown early in your lesson plan. This way if someone else were going to use your
lesson plan, they would know in advance what materials are required. Be specific here to
make sure the teacher will have everything they need. For the addition lesson, you should
make sure you have 10 or so unifix cubes per student, paper, and pencils.
4. You may also want to write an Anticipatory Set, which would be a way to lead into the
lesson plan and develop the students' interest in learning what is about to be taught. A good
example deals with a lesson on fractions. The teacher could start by asking the students how
they would divide up a pizza to make sure each of their 5 friends got an equal amount of
pizza, and tell them that they can do this if they know how to work with fractions.
5. Now you need to write the step-by-step procedures that will be performed to reach the
objectives. These don't have to involve every little thing the teacher will say and do, but they
should list the relevant actions the teacher needs to perform. For the adding 2 + 3 lesson, you
may have procedures such as these:
A. The teacher will give each child 2 unifix cubes.
B. The teacher will ask the students to write down how many unifix cubes they have on paper
(2).
C. The students should then write a + sign below the number 2, like this:
2
+
D. The teacher will then pass out 3 more unifix cubes to each student.
E. The students will be asked to write down how many unifix cubes they were just given. They
should write this number below the number 2 that they just wrote, so that it looks like this:
2
+3
F. Students should now draw a line under their 3.
G. Now the students should count how many unifix cubes they have together and write this
number just below the 3, like this:
2
+3
----
5
H. Ask students how many unifix cubes they had to start, how many they were given to add to
that, and how many they had total after the teacher gave them the 3 unifix cubes.
6. After the procedures have been completed, you may want to provide time for
independent practice. For the example of above, students could be given time to add
different numbers of unifix cubes together that a partner would provide them with.
7. Just before moving on to the assessment phase you should have some sort of closure for
the lesson plan. A good idea for this is to return to your anticipatory set, i.e. ask students how
they would divide up that pizza now that they know how to work with fractions (refer to the
example in step 4).
8. Now you want to write your assessment / evaluation. Many lesson plans don't necessarily
need an assessment, but most should have some sort of evaluation of whether or not the
objectives were reached. The key in developing your assessment is to make sure that the
assessment specifically measures whether the objectives were reached or not. Thus, there
should be a direct correlation between the objectives and the assessments. Assuming the
objective were to be able to add two single digit numbers together, an example would be to
have students approach the teacher and add two single digit numbers (that the teacher
provides via unifix cubes) on paper using unifix cubes as a guide.
9. Adaptations should also be made for students with learning disabilities and extensions for
others. Examples would be adding 1 unifix cube to 1 unifix cube for students with learning
disabilities and adding 9 unifix cubes to 13 unifix cubes for gifted students. This is best done
with specific adaptations for specific students, to take into account their individual
differences.
10. It's also a good idea to include a "Connections" section, which shows how the lesson plan
could be integrated with other subjects. An example would be to have students paint 2
apples, then 3 more apples below them, etc. to integrate Art into the lesson plan. A better
integration would involve creating 2 or 3 different types of textures on those apples,
assuming texture was being studied in art class. Putting a lot of work into this can develop
complete thematic units that would integrate related topics into many different subjects.
This repetition of topics in different subjects can be extremely helpful in ensuring retention of
the material.
That's it! If you followed all the instructions above, you've successfully written a very thorough
lesson plan that will be useful for any other teachers wanting to teach such a topic. One of
the most helpful tips in writing your first lesson plans would be to look at lesson plans that are
already fully developed to get a better idea of what needs to be in the lesson plan.
With many thanks to Lessons Plans Page
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