GETTING YOUR LESSON PLANS DONE MORE QUICKLY
Every day teachers spend numerous hours preparing for their lessons. They go through topics, take help from books and the internet in search of a perfect lesson plan. Without a lesson plan, they won’t be able to deliver questions in the classroom. They think about everything that should be taught in the class the next day and how it should be shown. The main aim is to create a lesson plan through which their student would be able to grasp every bit of their delivered topics. It’s very vital for teachers to attain some unique teaching strategies, as they are giving their wisdom to many students and so they don’t want to provide anything wrong or in the wrong way.
A lesson plan not only helps teachers to deliver their topics in the right way but also helps to keep the students engaged and focused in the class. Without a detailed lesson plan, a teacher would not be able to enrich their students with knowledge effectively.
Now and then, teachers are searching for ways of making engaging and knowledgeable lesson plans. But it takes up a lot of their time, and they are not able to focus on other things in their life. So here we have compiled a few tips and guidelines for you so that you’ll be able to create a perfect and effective lesson plan in much less time.
PLAN BACKWARDS
Before planning for anything, you always have a clear goal in your mind, about what objective you want to achieve, and according to your goal, you prepare a plan.
So this is how it is done while preparing a lesson plan too. Make a clear objective about what learning outcomes you want from a particular class. After the end of your periods, what your students should gain from your course or should be capable of doing.
Keeping your outcomes in mind, prepare a plan.
DOWNLOAD LESSON PLANS
With the advent of technology, everything has been made very much more straightforward and easy for us. Today you can learn and find anything you want on the internet and not even in one way. A single topic would be found in different platforms and done in different ways.
So an already prepared lesson plan might also be available on the internet. You can watch them and take some help from them or can deliver as per the same lesson plan. Some sites may give free lesson plan videos, while for other sites, you have to pay a nominal amount. I think if something is saving your time and giving you quality content, then it’s no harm to pay a small amount of money for that.
COLLABORATE WITH YOUR FELLOW TEACHERS
You are not alone in this dilemma of creating and delivering a good lesson. Every teacher faces this problem, so it would be better if you take the help of some teachers and work together.
You can divide the subjects and then prepare and share your lesson plan, or you can work together to make a lesson plan. You can also switch classes with teachers so that one teacher has to deliver only one lesson plan in different courses. Work together and find a proper solution suitable for you.
GETTING HELP FROM PLAYSTORE
Today there is every application available in the play store for every problem. Order food from home – Swiggy, Zomato; book a hotel- Oyo, Trivago, etc. you name one thing, and you will get an app for that.
So you can also take help from these apps; some of the apps which can help you in preparing lesson plans are- plan board, One Note, etc. these help the teachers to plan, organize and create a perfect lesson plan. You still have to do some work from your side, but these apps make your life a bit easier and will help you a lot in preparing a perfect lesson plan.
THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX
There is always an easy way to do a task. So keep your brains running and find out different and easy ways to deliver your lessons. Try thinking outside the box and implement it. Some of the ideas for you are
- Invite a guest faculty
- Educational videos
- Ask students to create an activity.
Creating engaging content is very tough, and a time taking task. But it can be made simpler, open your mind, and seek help from your colleagues or even students. If you are sure of your learning outcomes, then it would become an effortless task for you to create content.
