Mark. Plan. Teach

Plan

Idea 1: A Cognitive Process

Ideas

Reading

Planning

Lean Lesson Planning, Peps Mccrea

planning should be all about quality and not about quantity

Planning traps p.62

'activity-focused planning'

Leads to more doing than learning

'Coverage-focused planning'

using another teacher's learning objectives, rather than considering your own students' needs and how the objectives could be interpreted or adapted for them

'Over-planning'

too many activities? Too many objectives? .. Over-planning generally leads to under-leaning

more often than not, the teacher facilitated the beginning of the lesson, and this introduction was often then followed by a period of students leading their own learning p.63

To avoid these traps, ask yourself not 'how can we get to X,Y or Z? but 'where are the students starting from?' p.63

If you cannot describe your lesson plan in less than thirty seconds, it's already overcomplicated p.64

Is Teaching a science or an Art?, Alexander Makedon

Act I: 'Lean foundations' nitroduces the 'meanings, mindsets and habits underpinning the lean approach.'
Act II: 'Habits for planning' details the 'core habits of lean planning'.
Act III: 'Habits for growing' provides strategies for growing excellent classroom practice.

Learning objectives: the precision of your language really counts in making learning stick p.68

Teaching: Notes from the Front Line, Dr Debra Kidd

The Spider Strategy: Six Steps to Outstanding, Marcella McCarthy

Have them hidden from view until the end of the lesson

Your planning must first consider what students should learn before giving any consideration to what you want the students to do to teach this goal (p.61)

Modelling