Teaching Post 3-Elisabeth

4. Lesson planning
One of the most important things that I’ve learned about lessons planning is not to be too rigid in what you do. What I mean by that is don’t assume that you know how long activities will take. We’ve had a few lessons where we got a little bit earlier than we thought we wouold, and didn’t have another activity planned, so we were scrambling. So we’ve learned always to have one more activity planned than you think you’re going to get to. We’ve also had lessons that take longer than we thought they would. Because we are under a time limit with this unit, we often had to keep moving even though we didn’t get done with everything. It would have been nice not to nessisarly plan every day out, but to plan out what you want done in a unit, with a general sense of how long you have to teach it. That way, you can move through it without being as concerned with getting everything done in one day. You still have time constraints, but your movement within that time is easier.