How to fill out a Lesson Plan

Topic
Inquiry Focus What is the central
question or focus of this lesson? By what
means are the students going to achieve
an answer?

Lesson duration
Syllabus Outcomes
Dot points from the syllabus (or VELS levels, or
whatever your state document calls for)

Rationale
Why am I teaching this lesson? Why
now?
Prior Knowledge
What do the students already know, to enable
them to participate fully in this lesson?

Learning Outcomes
These should be
precise indicators of
intended student
learning
This is not syllabus
outcomes again, but
very specifically what the
students will be doing. It
can be helpful to couch
them: At the end of the
lesson the students will
be able to
You can also list here
what students will be
doing throughout the
lesson.

Time
Guide
Write
how
many
minutes
you are
allowing
for each
part of
the
lesson

Risk Assessment
Any OHS issues? Overhead projector cords?
Tractors?

Content/Learning Experience
Introduction (Engagement)

How will you immediately make an impact on the students and make
them keen to learn what you have to offer? Be explicit about linking to
previous lessons and previous learning. Perhaps indicate relevance of
the lesson here (Quality Teaching)

Body (Exploration/Transformation/Presentation)
How the lesson progresses this is what is happening in the classroom
so the outcomes you chose will be met. Content (the what), and
Method (the how)

Stage
Year
Class
Syllabus Content
Write the part of the dot point that you will be teaching, in your
own words

Resources
What you will need to take to the class with you USB
key with PPT, textbooks, worksheets.

Teaching
Strategies
Explicit teaching;
direct instruction;
modelling; teacher
explanation;
discussion; group
work; individual work;

Class Organisation
Grouping & classroom
environment
Whole class, small
groups, pairs,
individual work
including how you will
organise them into any
different groupings

Assessment
Techniques
what will you
use to assess
their learning
During the lesson,
not just at the end of
the unit (i.e.
formative, not just
summative) i.e.
responses to
questions, checking
book work around
the room, quality of
role play, depth of
responses,
questions by
students

Conclusion (Presentation/Reflection)
You must make time to conclude every lesson properly. This may involve students presenting final decisions from group work, and then you drawing all the threads together.