Any teachers on?? Can you share your lesson plan format.

LM2003

Our principal has us doing this LONG drawn out format...and then GRADES us on our lesson plans like we are college students She's something else

We all complained about them and she said email us our ideal plans. 

Care to share yours? I need ideas.

JessMil10

I was lurking all the boards and saw this. This is what we had to do in college for student teaching. My lesson plans were always 2-3 pages because of this.

Objectives: (With standards at the end of each.)

Materials Needed:
Subject Content:
Vocabulary References:

Class Procedures:
Set:
Procedures:
Closure:
Assignment:

Evaluation: The objective(s) in question form. How did it go, did you meet them?

Personal Reflection: Questions about how you did and what could have been better.

Galena99

For planbooks?  I use an ABCDE format. 

A-subject

B-what the students will do

C-what materials are needed

D-modality (Inquiry, direct instruction, etc)

E-assessment/homework

Here's an example:

A- Math

B- SW (short for "students will") draw and name line segments

C- rulers, scrap paper

D- Direct Instruction

E- Guided practice sheet, homework sheet 49B

 

I hope this is what you're looking for.

7/04Bride

Here's a shortened version I was taught to do in my plan book while student teaching: OPA

Objective

Procedure

Assessment

IMO, a principal shouldn't be collecting lesson plans.  You proved in college that you can write a good lesson plan!  If they do collect them, it should be something as simple as what I wrote above.  I'm so sorry that you're being asked to do way more on top of what you already do!

july10bride04

I worked in a school district that had a madeline hunter type requirement for each and every lesson.  I taught Elementary school there, so it was a real pain in the butt.  If I remember correctly it was something like this:

Anticipatory Set
Objectives
State Standards
Lesson
Assessment

You just get used to it and it becomes second nature.  Now I teach middle school in a different district, and they don't even check.  I don't even write my lesson plans down some days...talk about getting lazy.  But, I figure after 10 years, I know what I'm  doing.

mrsrose16

Seriously, a principal can require that? We are required to have lesson plans, but mine are only page numbers, etc. I have to write the standard/objective on the board daily next to the schedule. How much prep time do you get? We only get 45 min a day, and with getting materials ready, copying, grading and inputing grades, how can he expect that? I'd call you union and see if there's anything you can do.

LM2003

Seriously It would take me days to get into the BS that goes on at our school.  We are charter.  The principal can basically do what she want's i guess.  We don't have a union

Yeah we have to turn them in every friday and then they grade them and give us a rubric back with changes we have to make things that were good/bad etc.  It's is furiating. 

While i'm SO thankful to have a job in this crappy economy and even crappier teacher market in ohio I am just appalled at the crap we are put through at this school.  Finding a job in a new school is IMPOSSIBLE. 

We get 40 mins prep time but it turns out to be about 30 mins by the time you drop the kids off at the specials class (the teacher before is always late and there is NO transition time btw classes.  One ends and 10:35, and that's when mine "starts")

jennhawk

I think requiring lessons to be turned in is pretty normal, and fair. Principals cannot be in every classroom, but should know what's going on in them. I last worked at an IB school, so we had to use the IB lesson planning format, but I also had my own sheet, for actual planning. It included:

Standards, Objectives, Activities, Materials for each activity, Timing for each activity, Assessment, Practice (homework).

Another thing I have done that I found VERY useful is to write for each activity what the teacher will be doing and what the students will be doing. This makes it easy to see if a lesson was going to spend way too much time in one modality (I think teachers tend to ask kids to sit and listen for too long). My rule was not more than 20 min. at a time in one modality. HTH.

LM2003

Principal doens't even look at them.  She pawned off the job of grading them and checking them to her certain favorite workers in the building.  The reading specialist who does ours says it takes her HOURS to grade them.  All for no extra pay....

BS........

Tiffmike007

I can e-mail mine to you if you don't mind sharing your e-mail address.

angelasept06

Wow I can't believe that you all have to turn in such detailed lesson plans!  My pricipal has our scope and secuence on file that covers the topics that I teach (HS Spanish) but we don't have to turn anything else in at all.  That sounds to me like a big waste of time.