by Liz Beck | Jan 17, 2022 | Lesson Plans & Planning, Teaching
Our crew has been thinking and writing about lesson plans and planning, and in the midst of being terribly serious (which we totally ARE, ha), we also laugh and poke fun at ourselves. Because it’s a teacher’s life, right? You grind your teeth, and you also laugh so...
by Liz Beck | Dec 18, 2021 | Lesson Plans & Planning
I’m willing to bet that if you’ve ever been a teacher for more than, say…a week, then you’ve seen a lesson plan fail spectacularly. One of my personal favorite lesson plan failures involves my apparent inability to count two-digit numbers: I tried to put the...
by Liz Beck | Aug 11, 2021 | Lesson Plans & Planning
In our last article, we explored who a lesson plan is for. Now it’s time to look at what makes a lesson plan well worth all the time and energy it takes to create one that really makes a difference in the classroom. There are plenty of lesson planning templates out...
by Lance Bledsoe | Jul 15, 2021 | Lesson Plans & Planning
One of the things we talked about in our Top 6 Myths About Lesson Plans and Lesson Planning blog post was the difference between a lesson plan and a lesson plan document. This post focuses specifically on the lesson plan document, and more specifically on who that...
by Constructive Learning Design | May 23, 2021 | Lesson Plans & Planning
You should hear some of us Constructive Learning Design people when we start talking about lesson plans over a drink or a zoom call. We get passionate. A lot of people do. Why? Because we want to design powerful learning experiences for our students, we want to...