These lesson plan templates are guidelines to help organize your thoughts when creating lessons. Although each of these templates is laid out differently, they all include the same major components which are the curricular connections, the flow of events in the lesson, assessment ideas, and the classroom management tasks associated with making the lesson effective.

The more lessons I have crated, the more I have come to realize how important it is to plan with purpose and create lessons that are ready for use. It is highly important to create lessons with a  clear objective that links to the core and curricular competencies. Before creating a lesson I always try to ask myself what is the purpose of this lesson. Although you might have a fun lesson idea, if it is not teaching an important lesson it will not be a valuable learning expereince for your students. Furthermore when planning lessons I find it valuable to take the time to find the needed resources for the lesson so that it is essentially ready to be used in a classroom. For example, if planning a group discussion within a lesson it is important to have a list of questions and prompts to guide students and also help you as the teacher stay focussed on achieving the main objective of the discussion. When creating unit plans, one thing I feel is very important is planing strong transitions between lessons  through the creation of strong hooks and closures. This help students review and revisit the knowledge they have previously developed as well as focussing them on what they will be learning next.  This in turn helps lessons not to go off track but rather to stay focussed on their purpose. 

More recently, I have been learning that in order to create an effective lesson you must consider and be prepared to adapt and modify the lesson as you go. As a teacher every lesson is simply an idea and it is hard to know how it will go until you try it. Therefore it is important to be flexible and plan to adapt to any circumstances that might arise by offering suggestions and having resources ready for children who are having a hard time, or finish early. In reality, every student will expereince every lesson differently, thus, you may need to modify it to individual student needs as you go.

Although I have had few opportunities to present the lessons I have included in this collection to children, I look forward to trying them on practicum. From there I hope to revise them and make them better ready to be used in the future.