lesson planning
Structuring classroom instruction
Lesson planning is the process of designing instruction before delivering it—determining objectives, selecting activities, and organizing time.
Teachers create lesson plans to guide classroom sessions: She spent Sunday afternoon on lesson planning for the week.
The term covers everything from detailed written documents to mental preparation.
- backward designCurriculum built from outcomes
- curriculum mappingAligning instruction across courses
- learning objectivesIntended outcomes of instruction
- scaffoldingTemporary exterior work platform
- rubricsScoring standards for evaluation
classroom management · student engagement · check for understanding · scope and sequence · pacing · block schedule · time allocation · multimedia tools · formative assessment · exit ticket · template · pedagogy · outcomes · activities · cooperative learning · unit · worksheet · timing
- Student Teachingstudent teaching, classroom observation, mentor teacher, practicum, co-teaching
- teachingteaching, instructing, educating, courses, teaching methods
- art educationart classes, art schools, art curriculum, art teacher, art school
- Education ServicesIEP, teacher training, 504 plan, school improvement, accommodations
- language educationbilingual, language teaching, biliteracy, language learning, immersion
- pedagogyteaching methods, teaching, teaching strategies, teaching models, teaching techniques
lesson planningwinging it
Proceeding without preparation
improvisation · ad-libbing · flying by the seat of your pants · freestyling
lesson planningteachable moments
Spontaneous situations ripe for instruction