Day 18- Plan the Lesson, Teach the Plan, and then adjust...

As we continue down this road together, I would like to take a moment to thank you for still reading...if you are.  I have repeatedly talked about the purpose of this blog and how I will continue to grow and change this blog.  The next step, as I mentioned, is to dial in on how this blog needs to be run.  The idea behind this blog is not just to cover topics related to education but to also demystify the process of blogging for everyone.  So forgive the rambling at the beginning of most of these posts but I figured explaining the process might in some crazy way help you the reader at some point down the road.

Anyway, I digress.

The focus of this week shall be on lesson planning.  While the twitter chat this week will be about student engagement, what better way to keep the conversation going then by talking about a major factor to that...the lesson plan.

(FYI: Glad I had a plan for this week as my interwebs is throwing fits and I could not get the links posted.  Always have a plan in order to work through any problems.)

Planning a lesson is so much more than opening a guide and jotting down some words in a blue spiral book.  It is more than creating a neat powerpoint or flipchart.  It is bigger than that.  I often look at lesson planning as the most difficult part of the job.  Planning a lesson is taking your thoughts and ideas and putting them onto paper in order to convery those thoughts to a whole bunch of other little people.  It is the idea; the art and science of teaching on paper in a well thought out manner.  Your vision for each day written out.

So this week we will discuss the idea, the concepts, the way to start, the way to end, and most importantly how you like to plan.  One might view it similarly to building a house. :)

Monday- Introduction (Plan the lesson, teach the plan)

Tuesday- Begin with the End in Mind (Using Assessment, guides, and curriculum to plan)

Wednesday- Twitter Chat.  Building the Frame (Types of Lesson Plans)

Thursday- Designing the Details (Filling in Your Template)

Friday- Rearranging your Furniture. (Making adjustment without having to start from scratch.)