I just read an interesting article from Education Week, «Study: Give Weak
Teachers Good Lesson Plans instead of Professional Development.»
ClassFlow, the free, next - generation lesson delivery software, won
best lesson plan delivery website from ComputEd Gazette's Best Educational Software Awards (BESSIES).
For example, we all want to reinforce the need to
prepare good lesson plans, so some teachers shy away from tips on how to keep kids busy when a lesson ends too early.
No free sandals there, but don't gouge your eyes out — the play comes with
a good lesson plan.
Find
the best lesson plans, schemes of work and activities for early years teaching, brought together in themed and topic - led posts.
Every month, the organization awards computers, gadgets, and software donated by vendors to the teachers who submitted
the best lesson plans (as determined by its board of reviewers).
Even
the best lesson plans do not survive unchanged on first contact with students.
In addition, we need to train teachers not just in developing
good lesson plans, but in the delivery of good lesson plans.
The program gives teachers access to the district curriculum through a wiki and allows them to share
their best lesson plans, ideas, and resources through an online commons.
The pace of an activity can be thrown off with one or more interruptions, so even
the best lesson plans need to account for these minor changes.
About 95 % of the NEA plan is fluff —
good lesson plans, evidence of reflective practice, self - assessments, completion of meaningful professional development, etc..
«I've seen the anxiety that it actually produces in the classroom, and these are good teachers that are now so worried about the observations that they're going to have that they're sweating, and they're actually not producing
the best lesson plans....
Unless students have a true foundation built on positive character traits such as these, even
the best lessons plans and teaching strategies won't make a significant difference.
But, what exactly do
the best lesson plans look like?
Essentially based on the same model in which teachers were able to upload and distribute or sell
their best lesson plans, digital textbooks from Teacher's Discovery share some of the most innovative concepts among teachers.
Research shows that
the best lesson plans are created by teachers, for teachers.
They should also make
a good lesson planning to minimize anxiety that they and their child may feel.
Just like
the best lesson plans showing off your organization skills as well as teaching excellence, resumes for teacher have to convey the same message, too.