Writing Great Lesson Plans

1. Set up a lesson plan idea binder, organized with dividers by

themes or months

2. Make it a point to “browse” at least one good resource book a week,

making copies of favorite pages or noting the source for your binder

3. Make friends with the internet: browse the teacher resource pages,

and look for sites on areas you feel “weak” in

4. Subscribe to a good “ideas” magazine:

Mailbox and Family Fun are my 2 favorites!

5. Do your research – look through previous plans, both yours and

from other teachers

6. Use a web system – it really works and CEO’s pay millions to send their

employees to workshops to learn to creatively plan this way!

7. Plan with a friend – bounce ideas off each other!

8. Write out all your themes on your lesson plans, it will hold you

accountable for presenting them all!

9. Find a way to get your plans on the computer – you’re more likely to be

flexible about changing and adding new ideas if you don’t have to

rewrite your plans by hand!

10. After you present them, make notes on your plans about what worked

and what didn’t, and save them in your binder for next year