Sample lesson plans to ensure the teacher and students are prepared for the day.

Lesson plan templates can be simple or quite complex. Their purpose is to give an overview of the day for the students and the teacher.

Teacher Lesson Plan

Lesson plan should include the teacher's name, grade level, and room number, and you may include the school. This information should be placed in a footer or header that is easy to read.

Yard Duty

Include yard duty at the top of the page to ensure it is not forgotten. Leave a blank at the top, since yard duty is not a constant, write in yard duty once the schedule is complete. Better to write it in the beginning instead of looking at the master list daily.

Special instructions

This category is to indicate allergies or special circumstances for a student or several students. Students who go to core may have their name and times written in this area.

Subjects

Indicate time a subject starts and ends. Subject will have space to write the lesson for the day.

Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences for each subject. The intelligences are included in small font. Its purpose is to ensure a variety of intelligences are used for a specific subject. Teacher simply highlights or circle the intelligences used for the lesson.

Assessment/Evaluation

Include a variety of assessments and evaluations on your lesson plan. Highlight daily the ones being used for each subject area; this ensures a variety is being implemented.

Instructional Strategies

Instructional Strategies may be included on the lesson plan in short form or in small font as in multiple intelligences. Instructional strategies will differ based on the subject.

Daily Routines

Write simple instructions of the routines to welcome and dismiss students, as well lunch and recess routines. Schools routines vary and it is important to adhere to your schools procedures. Indicate if you must be in the hallway to welcome students or on the stairwell to ensure safety of students.

Lesson plans are varied and the above information is just one style. Internet provides countless ones and they are easy to personalize to your class and circumstances.

Student Lesson Plan

Teachers must provide a lesson plan for their day, but often students are only aware of some of the day’s tasks. Student lesson plan makes the student responsible for their day and not have continual reminders as the information is provided on the lesson plan. Implement a student lesson plan in your classroom by modifying the teacher lesson plan.

Students have their name, class, and room number at the top of the page.

Student lesson plan is static; it is mostly a reminder of their academic and behavior expectations.

Morning Routine

Student writes what is expected of him each morning. Example; hand in homework, read until announcements.

Subjects

Time of the subjects and what is expected of them. How to go about tasks and what to do if they are completed early. Example; if math is completed they must do a math game until the period is over or they may help other students with the math assignment. Teacher may give each student her own expectations. Example; teacher will not want a student who continually talks and wanders to be a helper if he is disruptive, rather his time is better spent working on tangrams or pentominoes.

Resources are written for the subject area to ensure students are ready for the next lesson. Students may not know in advance the math lesson, but they will still have their workbook, math notebook, textbook, ruler, pencil, and math manipulatives on the desk to assist them in the lesson.

Dismissal Routine

Students write what is expected of them leaving the classroom.