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Lesson planner template

Lesson planner template

Encapsulate your classroom project, lesson, and even your evaluation materials in one mind map and you will reduce the time spent in adapting learning strategies and content to your classroom.

Keywords: planning & organizing, lesson planner, teaching, teaching materials

Lesson planner template

Teacher lesson planner

This teacher lesson planner to plan and organize your lesson in detail. Add in the template your objectives, activities you are planning to do in class, assessments, plenary, homework feedback, discussions, and resources for your students.

Lesson Planner

Use this mind map to plan and easily organize your lessons.

Assesment

Overview

In order to ensure the continuity of future assessments, create a quick overview of the student knowledge you were able to evaluate and write down some key points regarding their performance.

Activity

Outline all the information you will need in order to create your evaluation content, add notes and figure out what type of assessment will conclude your lesson (test, essay, presentation, etc).

Revisit

After having graded and analyzed your students' work, establish what kind of feedback you will give them.

Will you have a discussion or will you give them written indications on the tests?

Will students need to review some of the content they didn't fully understand?

Review

Try to evaluate your planned assessment and establish whether it's appropriate as evidence for the Student Learning Objective.

Homework Feedback

Homework improves student achievement and teaches students to work independently.
Provide your students with feedback on their homework, as this is an essential instrument allowing you to enhance the significance of assignments in their overall academic life.

Discussion

An actual experience with discussions will help students grasp the connections between different topics. Students will have the chance to use their knowledge gathered in class or during the personal researches and be able to participate effectively in the discussion as group members.

Resources

More and more teachers are using visual aids and other helping tools to exemplify lessons.

Mind Maps

You can attach your own previously created mind maps or you can ask them to create their own.

Books

You can recommend books to your students which are related to your lesson, or which will help them gain a broader perspective on the lesson.

Web

Related videos or documentaries, audio books.

Materials

Write down what materials you want to use.

Plenary

Plan the activities your students will be involved in during the plenary session.

For example: a quiz, exit tickets, keyword bingo, RAG123, etc.

Having established the intention of your plenary session, it is now time to outline the objectives.

For example: clarify students' understanding, help students acquire different points of view, improve their critical judgment skills, promote free discussions, encourage students to ask questions, etc.

Aims

Set out the intention of this plenary session.

Activities

Group
Game

Keep your students engaged with group games, allowing them to practice vocabulary, grammar rules, learn new concepts, etc.

Work

Think about group exercises that will engage your students’ critical thinking techniques, while also promoting teamwork.

Handouts

Plan and create the handouts your students will receive in order to support the day’s activities.

Discussion Cards

Help your students learn and practice the conversational techniques needed to move the discussion forward, with the discussion cards.

Worksheets

Add your printable worksheets meant to reinforce your students’ comprehension.

These could contain different types of exercises and even provide a quick overview of the day’s lesson.

Objectives

Establish your goals.

What do you want your students to achieve?

add note here

Information

Duration

Here you should type in the timeframe of this class.

Date

Starting date of the class.

Class

Type in the title of your class.

Why use a Mindomo mind map template?

Mind maps help you brainstorm, establish relationships between concepts, organize and generate ideas.

However, mind map templates offer an easier way to get started, as they are frameworks that contain information about a specific subject with guiding instructions. In essence, mind map templates ensure the structure that combines all the elements of a specific subject and serves as a starting point for your personal mind map. They are a resource for providing a practical solution to create a mind map on a particular topic, either for business or education.

Mindomo brings you smart mind map templates that allow you to function and think effortlessly.

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You can choose from a variety of mind map templates from Mindomo's business or educational accounts, or you can create your own mind map templates from scratch. Any mind map can be transformed into a mind map template map by adding further guiding notes to one of its topics.