10 Steps to Developing a Quality Lesson Plan
This guide isn’t the only way to develop a lesson plan; However, it’s going to at least provide you with a few good ways to get started. A general overview highlights the key points of creating a useful and working lesson plan.
Below is a list of the steps that are typically involved in developing a quality lesson plan as well as a description of what each component should be. They will be listed among the 10 best points.
1. The first thing you need to consider, of course, is what you want to teach. It should be developed based on your state or local school standards. You should also know what grade level you are developing the lesson plan for. Record a time estimate for your lesson plan to help you better budget your time.
Once you have chosen your subject, you can begin to choose how you want to teach the subject in general. If you haven’t used state standards to help develop your topic, you may want to refer to them now to see what specific standards your lesson plan can meet.
Setting up your lesson plan properly with state standards helps prove its worth and necessity later on. It also helps to ensure that your students are being taught what the state requires.
If you are able to match your lesson plan with local school standards, record a link to those standards in your lesson plan for later reference. However, if you are writing this lesson plan for a website, you will want to make sure that you include a title that properly reflects your topic.
2. Develop clear, specific objectives to ensure that your lesson plan will teach exactly what you want. You should note that these objectives should not be activities that will be used in the lesson plan. Rather, they should be the learning outcomes of those activities.
As an example, if you want to teach your class to add 1 + 3, the objective might be “that the students will know how to add 1 + 3” or more specifically “the student will demonstrate that”. Will do how to add 1+3.”
Your objectives should also be directly measurable. This means that you need to make sure that you will be able to tell whether these objectives are met or not. Of course you can have more than one purpose for a lesson plan if you think it will be more useful.
To be able to make objectives more meaningful, you may want to include both broad and narrow objectives. Broad objectives will be more like ambitions and will include the overall goal of the lesson plan, for example, so that you can get familiar with adding two numbers together.
The specific objectives will be more like the one listed above, with “students demonstrating how to put the numbers 2 and 3 together.”
