Each professor may wish to customize a lesson plan format to fit the purpose of each course. The categories offered below for consideration are shown through research and many teachers' experiences to contribute to students learning well.

Click here if you wish to refer to the longer version that lists options from which to select under several categories.

Click here if you'd like to use a similar longer lesson plan form with text boxes in which you can brainstorm and print out your plans. Most areas listed below have been expanded by more prompts for thoroughness.

1. Planning Objectives

• Learning objectives, the specific aims to realize course goals
• Topic
• Larger unit that topic comes under
• Map the organization of the major ideas/ content on another sheet.

2. Learning Context

• Set rapport
• Create a learning context
• Connect with students' cultural experiences and background knowledge
• Pretest/ background knowledge probe/ one minute paper?

3. Multi-Modality Communication

• Engage students in multi-modality communication: how?
• Need to make or arrange for:

4. Thinking and Conceptual Framework

• Abilities
• Skills

5. Active Learning

• Activities

6. Determining Level of Difficulty

• Scaffolding?

7. Analyzing the Task and Choosing or Designing a Learning Strategy

• When to demonstrate
• Practice

8. Evaluation

• Evaluate the students' mastery
• Long-term retrieval
• Extension/transfer
• Changes to this lesson plan?

9. What else?