New Teachers Need a Checklist For a Lesson Planning - Before and After

Not every lesson will go according to plan but as a new teacher, you can ensure your lessons will go as smoothly as you can using this simple to use checklist. Print out the checklist below and examine it in light of your lesson. Did your lesson plan includes these items? Can you add any more items to the list?

1. Objectives for the lesson plan are written.
2. Topic of the lesson
3. Textbook and class are mentioned
4. Classroom materials: Will you be needing to xerox or order pre-planned classroom materials?
5. Warm up activity and closure
6. Timing for each activity: Timing should be thought out beforehand but flexibility should be exercised for time extensions. In time this will become much more natural but for now, keep to writing it down.
7. Strategies and ways for dealing with lower performing or strong students
8. There is a mini-project or performance task
9. Enabling skills

Other Elements for Consideration

• Different teaching techniques (groups, pairs, frontal)
• feedback for students' work
• Assessment for which activities and tasks and what kind of assessment
• Sequencing and transitions between different activities.
• Homework: What and how to check?
• Backup plan or extra activity - this is very important; otherwise known as a SOS kit!

Lesson planning is almost always a trial and error based process. If students are causing discipline problems, see if any of these elements could be reinforced differently. Students might loose attention when a teacher lectures too much.
In short, a new teacher should try and aim for less teacher dominated talk and be open to using varied teaching techniques that would allow for a variety of student interaction.

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