How do you plan your lessons?
We’re interested in finding out about teachers’ lesson plans. Which of the following best describes the way you plan?
- 1% said I create lesson plans from scratch.
- 54% said I use or adapt lesson plans created by someone else within the school.
- 45% said I use lesson plans from a commercial product.
- 0% said I adapt lesson plans from a commercial product to suit my needs.
Comments
said on 16 March 2013
Great site. More on special needs/ASN would be even better
said on 7 March 2013
What has happened to your monthly emails? They have stopped before with no explanation.
said on 1 March 2013
We work through a thematic approach and there is never any published stuff that seems to suit our topics and the way we teach.
said on 20 January 2013
Also use read, write inc, hamilton and other teacher's plans
said on 15 January 2013
When I took over my current class when the Deputy Head retired. Her planning was excellent - and utilised all the resources available. It would be foolish not to use these as the basis of my planning - for the most part I just adapt and tweek.
said on 19 December 2012
I came across some old Scholastic publications in a bookshop and have found them very useful for planning lessons. I teach English as a Foreign Language to young children in Spain.
said on 6 December 2012
I usually use a combination of strategies. Sometimes plans are adapted from commercial products and sometimes they are created from scratch based on the objective and any sources of inspiration. When doing long term work I am happy to adapt plans from other people as appropriate as well as sharing my own lesson ideas.
said on 28 November 2012
For some lessons I create my own lesson plans but for literacy and numeracy I use scholastic lesson plans from the scholastic literacy and numeracy books for Y1.
said on 24 November 2012
I PREPARE MY LESSON PLAN FOR MY STUDENTS BUT IT IS ALWAYS VARIES FROM MY PREVIOUS PLAN.
said on 20 November 2012
I plan for literacy and maths from scratch most of the time. Occasionally I will use elements of previous years plans (if the activity worked well) and will dip into sites like this and others for ideas.
said on 17 October 2012
This website gives you so much to teach your class. It mkaes your life so much easier!
said on 7 October 2012
Although I do use commercial products, this is only a small part of the overal picture. i often use a combination of books and stuff of the internet. Also none of the schemes provide enough differentiation and I always have to find more challenging material and material suitable for the less able. Literacy is often completely re-written but we do take text and ideas from a variety of internet and text resources.
said on 3 October 2012
Some plans are written from scratch, some from schemes (Hamilton Trust, the new Catholic RE syllabus etc), some based on my old plans from previous years, but everything has to be adapted to the children in each class, the latest government decree, the amount of support in class (which can change weekly) and available resources. That's why it takes so long.
said on 30 September 2012
I work in special ed there are almost no ready made plans/resources so everything is done from scratch
said on 30 September 2012
I use a mix of all of these
said on 28 September 2012
I'm not an expert - I don't pretend to create the best lessons
said on 26 September 2012
Any scheme of planning needs to have learning objectives and success criteria for every section on the lesson and allow a writing element (even in MATHS!) differentiation needs to include approx 4 levels too
Melanie Andrews said on 18 March 2013
Although I plan from scratch I will use commercial resoucres, but I adapt to suit the needs of the children i teach