Lesson Plan Template
This lesson plan template contains ideas drawn from facilitation practices that you can apply to the classroom straight away. Combine individual reflection, paired conversations and teamwork to the presentation of your content to support effective learning!
Objectives
- Start designing your lesson with a ready-made series of drag-and-drop blocks tailored for classroom environements;
- Easily adapt this session to your content;
- Design a successful participatory learning experience;
- Support individual learning with reflection activities;
- Connect lecture topics to real-life situations or personal experiences;
- Encourage active participation of learners and build their confidence to contribute.
Materials
Attachments
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Instructions
In many school settings, a lesson lasts about an hour: it’s not that much time, and you may think it should all be dedicated to transmitting content. Yet, research into how learning happens has proven over and over that hearing information is only a small part of the process. Interacting with new content and ideas is fundamental to ensure learners find topics relevant and retain information in time.
This example lesson plan takes established practices from facilitated workshops and adapts them to classroom settings. Introduce moments of individual reflection and teamwork to encourage active participation, lively discussions, and a positive learning environment for your learners.
Drag-and-drop sections of this plan and add your own content to customize it based on the specifics of your situation!
Facilitation has a lot in common with active education approaches and will be intuitive to apply for educators familiar with similar frameworks. In general, it’s a good idea to introduce participatory tools gradually, especially if they are very different from how the school system works in your specific context. For more tips on teachers as facilitators, you can find a full guide here.
All you need to introduce facilitation in your classroom are qualities you probably already cultivate as a teacher: trust, curiosity, a bit of playfulness, and a willingness to listen to your students and let them take ownership of the process. Does that sound exciting?
Author
At SessionLab, we are passionate about facilitation. We believe good workshop design leads to better collaboration, enabling people to achieve great things. SessionLab is the go-to platform for session design, with an agenda planning tool, library of facilitation resources and vibrant community for facilitators. It enables facilitators to streamline workshop design through drag-and-drop scheduling, automatic timing and seamless sharing with clients and colleagues.