All teachers have a plan for how to teach each lesson. There are certain elements that must be thought out and included in each lesson plan.
 

OBJECTIVES

STRATEGIES

INSTRUCTIONAL ARRANGEMENT

MATERIALS

EVALUATION

CROSS DISCIPLINE INTEGRATION

 

Objectives: 1. This is a numbered list of your goals that each student will accomplish.
Why are you teaching this lesson?

2. What do you want the students to know how to do when you finish the lesson?

3. Use the words "The students will……" as in "The students will write the letter a in cursive writing".

4. Provide a list of new terms or words students will learn.

Strategies: 1. This is a numbered list of the steps you will do during the lesson.

2. For example
        a. Give out two sheets of paper to each student.
        b. Say "Take out a sharpened pencil."
        c. Write a cursive a on the board.

List every detail, no matter how small so that if you are nervous you just have to read the steps.

Instructional Arrangement : Describe how you will set up the room and have students working, and how many students are in the group:

For example:
a. Students will sit in a circle on the rug at the front of the room.
OR
b. Students will work in groups of three at desks.
OR
c. Students will work individually at their desks.
OR
d. Five students will work with me at the table while the teacher works with the rest at their desks.

Materials:
1. This is a numbered list of what you will need to teach this lesson.

2. For example:
        a. Chalk
        b. Blackboard
        c. Fifty sheets of paper
        d. Student pencils
        e. Hand outs

Evaluation: How are you going to prove that the students have accomplished the objectives you listed above?

Evaluation may be a test, but it can also be producing a product.

For example:

a. Writing a poem.
b. Reciting a poem.
c. Drawing a picture.
d. Writing a story.
e. Writing a sentence.
f. Etc.

Cross Discipline Integration:
Many lessons include more than one subject. For instance a Science lesson about whales may include map work looking at where different species of whales live. This is Geography or Social Studies. If students then write a report about what they have learned, that is Language Arts.

Listening to whale songs is Music and counting and charting whale populations is Math.

Think carefully about your lesson and list what other subjects are included.