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[Paladin Brewer]

My lesson plans are like, 1 page each, and I think that seems okay. Though for now I am doing PPTs so maybe that is why they're okay with my crappy lesson plans.

[eljuero]

Yeah, nothing like powerpoint to make bullshit look dazzling.
The idea though that it should be a page is in a way irrelevant IMHO. After all if you have a 30 minute activity in the middle of the lesson it might not take up that much space on a page.....Jeez, it's like 5th grade requirements - how much of a page to write on as opposed to what the content of it is.....too much some days.

Just curious though - do they ever comment on content? Try to make changes?

[Depths of My Soul]

[eljuero]

[Horangi Munshin]

[Colorado]

Two lesson plans a year. For my Open Classes.

[thegadfly]

...so is the plan for a lesson different than a lesson plan? Are you differentiating between knowing what you will do on a given day -- the skills to be practiced, the new information to be presented, the drill or review components, the overall arc of class progression -- and an actual piece of paper, in some formal arrangement, that details the things to be done, like a recipe in a cookbook?

I have not written a recipe in a year, but I have about 30 lesson plans a week, because I teach 30 classes a week.

[AsiaESLbound]

14
That's how many different classes I have of my 30 classes with curriculum classes having 3 to 4 repeats due to having 3 to 4 classes of each grade level.

[jonpurdy]

Four per week (one for each after school class). Each lesson plan consists of a text message to my co-teacher with a list of activities for each class

(Of course, lots of time is spent actually deciding what to do and gather materials.)

[lapin131]

I recommend teacher to make lesson plans.. even if its a simple outline..cause you never know when a supervisor or a VP wants to see what kind of an input you are putting into class prep...

It also comes in very handy when and if you have to prove your co teacher's slacking off.. cause he/she will have nothing to submit.

[tjmauermann]

I am only required to do a lesson plan for my open class. Last year it was two open classes, this year may only be one. However, I keep a detailed log of what I do each day in a planner in case they 'request' that I start making lesson plans from previous classes. I like to cover my bases to avoid any unplanned headaches.

[Paladin Brewer]

I guess when I asked how many lesson plans, in my head I was thinking any kind of documented preparation...lesson plans, PPTs, getting materials, etc. I was curious to how many classes (but not counting repeat subject material) people had to prep for.....if that makes sense

[Cayne]

I feel really lucky after having read a few of these posts.

For lesson planning in a given week I have the following.

One each for 3rd grade, 4th grade, and 6th grade.

One for my 6th grade basic class and one for my 4th grade basic class, but these are usually very similar in content.

Only the regular classes need an "official" lesson plan that gets written up and saved, the others are just for myself. And the official lesson plans are still super simple, I made the form myself and at my co-teacher's request I keep them at bare basics. I just fill in a bullet point hand written outline of what I'm going to cover, it's usually about a quarter page or a little more of writing and that's it.

Of course most weeks so far I haven't had to do all of the above because the regular lessons are a review class so no official plan is needed, or one of my co-teachers has something they want to do, so we use their plan instead. I spend a lot more time thinking about what and how I'm going to teach than writing it up. My bullet point outlines are fine for structuring my classes, anything beyond that seems like it would be wasted effort.

[NYC_Gal]