Lesson Planning

Lesson Planning
The more I teach the more I realize how important it is to have exact lesson plans. Especially when we are teaching in groups. We have run across some frustrations when it has not been clearly defined in the plan what to do or who is teaching. It is especially important to put in them who is teaching when creating a lesson plan for a group to teach because the teachers can look over their parts before hand and ask any questions they want. This way if someone doesn’t understand something the can talk about how to do it ahead of time providing a more time efficient class and also showing the students that we are united as their teachers.
It is also important to include in the lesson plan the rubric and expectations so that the teachers are also unified in telling the students what the requirements are. It has been difficult for the students to sometimes understand what we wanted because if they have a question and ask one teacher and the other group asks the same question to a different teacher both of the groups got different answers. Creating two different rubrics and a lot of confusion. It is best for the teacher preparing the lesson to be specific and also if there are questions that the teachers didn’t think to discuss have the students go ask the teacher that prepared the lesson or lead the discussion, whichever the group prefers ( just make sure you choose one), and have the questions answered by that teacher. This helps with the confusion of the teachers and students.