How to Create Your Own Lesson Plan!

4 important things you

will need to include!

There are many different formats
TLW: need an Objective which TLW: need Curriculum
teachers use to create a lesson
will specify clearly what the lesson Standards to ensure that the
is going to be on and what will be lesson compliments the state plan. You can use binders,
done in the lesson. standards of what is expected in journals, calendars, but today I will
each grade level. be showing you through an
TLW: need a Plan to include TLW: need Clarity in each of the electronic format!
lectures, anticipatory sets, and lessons, assignments and
assessments. objectives so students won’t
misunderstand any part of the
lesson.
Steps
1. Identify what the objective for the week will be. You will be placing your objective in
the beginning of your lesson plan and this objective will be the same one the
students will see to know what to expect for the week.
Something to remember:
• Check on your states Curriculum Standards to make sure that your lesson
gets the students ready for the EOC and gets the most out of the lesson.
• For Texas: https://tea.texas.gov/academics/curriculum-standards/teks/texas-
essential-knowledge-and-skills
2. Recognize what assessments will be needed for the week and mark down on a
calendar or a planner what days students will be working on assessments and
anticipatory sets.
Something to remember:
• Note what materials will be needed on a journal or paper.
• Note what days students will be doing homework and taking a summative
assessment.
3. Create your lesson plan by opening Microsoft Office and inserting a table with
enough rows and columns that will fit your Objective/Lessons/Assessments. This is
where you will insert everything that you noted from Step 2.
Something to remember:
• Microsoft isn’t the only format that teachers can create lesson plans on.
• Be as clear as possible in your lesson plan
4. Leave a “Comment” section on your lesson plan to reflect on what worked and
didn’t work so you can progress on the following weeks that come up. The comment
section helps teachers note down what worked good for students and what didn’t
work well.
 Small Sample
Sample Lesson Plan
Story Arc
Texas Curriculum Standard:
(6-b) English Language Arts and Reading: Comprehension Skills.
Generate questions about text before, during, and after reading to deepen understanding and gain
information
Objective: TLW will read this week’s reading and be able to fill out a Story Arc by the end of the
week.

Readings: (SAMPLE READING) by Sample Author

Discussion:
• When class starts, desks will be facing the projector screen. The projector screen will have
this week’s reading on the screen. Students will take turns reading aloud each paragraph.
• Every 5 minutes Students will Think-Pair-Share on their thoughts of the reading.
• After the reading, a Story Arc will be on the projector for students to help fill out the Arc with
the instructor.
Assessment: Materials:
• TLW have two story arcs to complete for • Print outs of empty Story Arcs
homework by Thursday. • Extra Pencils
• TLW read a short story on Friday and fill • Print out of story for students who can’t
out a Story Arc on their own for a Quiz see the board
Grade. Time:
M-TH: 2 homework assignments
F: Quiz
Comments:
The think-pair-share worked well for students to understand the different parts of the story.
Next week review story arc
 User Test

Audience:

My audience for this written instruction document is for new teachers who are looking on ways
to create or organize a lesson plan. This document can also work well for teachers who are just
looking for a new or different way to do lesson plans.

Schedule:

October 19, 2020

7am

Instructions:

• The teacher will receive a copy of a print out of the Written Instruction document “How
to Create Your Own Lesson Plan!” at the beginning of the week.
• The teacher will use the document to reference to when creating the week’s lesson plans.
• On Saturday, October 24, 2020, I will call the teacher for feedback on what worked and
didn’t work. Ask how it was different than from how the teacher usually plans for the
week.
• I will take notes of feedback.

Success Measurement:

Success will be measured on if the Written Instructions helped the teacher be more organized
with their lesson for the week. Success would be if the teacher continues to take at least
components of the document on to their next lesson plans.
 Usability Report

Participant:

The participant was a teacher from a local middle school. This teacher has a lot of experience in
teaching. This teacher has been teaching History for over 13 years. The teacher was open to
trying a new way of creating a lesson plan. She had been using a binder with a calendar since she
started teaching to organize her lesson plans. She was excited to hear that the Written Instruction
document will include a way to do a lesson plan through an electronic platform.

Results:

The teacher told me that she really enjoyed the new way of creating that week’s lesson plan. I
had asked her if she will be using this format to create her next lesson plans. She responded that
she will continue to use Microsoft Word, and she will steal the idea of adding a comment section
to reflect on the week. She said that she will try to fuse what she is used to doing but transferring
it over to the way I had instructed in the document.

Overall, it was a success for my standards. I was glad to hear she will be combining the way I
instructed with what she usually does because lesson plans have no real format, so I think it’s
good for teachers to take ideas from each other and make it their own.

Reflect:

I had been wanting to learn how to create a lesson plan for some time. So, I found this project
was the perfect chance to teach myself and then make a project on how to make one. I had
contemplated this decision since I had no prior experience of creating lesson plans. I watched
some Youtube video’s, read some web sites, and asked some fellow teacher friends of mine on
how they construct their lesson plans. I took ideas from all the things I had learned from those
things and created a sample. I dissected what I did and started figuring out step by step what is
needed and what I can add to the Written Instruction Document.

The day of the test, I had delivered the document to the teacher the morning of October 19, 2020
to the teacher. I had asked her the weekend prior to that date if she can take my instruction
document and try to make a lesson plan that goes with the instructions. She told me she was up
for it because she had been tired of the way she had been doing it for some time. This is a
scenario I’d imagine why a lot of teacher would search for these instructions. She used it for the
week and we spoke on the phone the following Saturday about it. I took notes of her thoughts
and feedbacks on the document.