What I learned from designing this first lesson plan for class was...
Thomas Edison gives great advice on designing lesson plans: inspiration and perspiration. Starting the lesson plan proved to be a substantial challenge, but once I knew where to start, the rest just wrote itself. I did have to make sure I was covering everything I needed, but once I knew where to start and where to end, the middle came pretty quick. Kind of like making a sandwich :)
Inspiration can come from several places; Sunshine State Standards, new teaching aides, and even homework assignments can be useful springboards for teaching a lesson.
What I want to know more about is...
How do I extend a lesson plan past a single day? I think I did a two week lesson plan for another class, but how do you extend it even further? And just as importantly, how do you know when to adjust the schedule; are you spending too much or too little time on a subject? It hardly seems fair for the first class where a lesson plan is used to be the "test class," but I suppose instructors become better at adapting with experience.
Moreover, can a lesson plan be independent of activities therein? In other words, how do you integrate as many different tasks within a lesson plan (for the purpose of varying tasks with different classes) while still teaching the same idea. Is there a point where you must forgo previous templates or can any template really be "one size fits all?" Questions questions; only time will tell.
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