Title says it all.
My teacher education has come to a point where I now have to start writing lesson plannings, which for my teachable areas at least, involves diving into incredibly long documents, and trying to figure out how the learning outcomes can relate back to a lesson.
Though it's not complex in essence, there are a lot of moving parts to consider. I just spent the past couple of hours writing my first one- and man, if you google "lesson plan format", there's about 10 billion different options to consider.
There's lots of moving parts to this process. Maybe I'll sound crazy, but I honestly was naive enough to think that teachers put in a little bit of prep time, then stood up and started talking.
Yeah, no.
There's curriculum documents to dig through, activities to plan, time divisions to be determined, and then the fun part- picking out all the general and specific learning outcomes, then the cluster zero learning outcomes, then clusters 1 through 5 within the specific learning outcomes... it's like a big long branching diagram that seems to continue ad nauseam.
I'm sure this will get easier with time, and for a first attempt, I'm definitely not mad about how it turned out! There will inevitably be things I'll change before submitting my final copy, but for now, I'm considering lesson plan #1 done - and, admittedly, it was fun re-visiting Mendelian genetics from my high school days.
Oh yeah, you should also go thank a teacher. This stuff is harder than it looks!!!
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