Lesson Plans, Lesson Plans, Lesson Plans!

When I first started to create my lesson plan, I had somewhat of an idea as to what I was doing because I had done a lesson plan in one of my classes from the previous semester. However, the lesson plan for this class was required slightly different things. Initially, I was doing my lesson plan independently, but that did not last long. I expressed my frustrations at the end of the class one day to my friend Caroline (who is in the class as well) and she expressed her frustrations too. We decided that it would be best to just both stop where we are and start a lesson plan together in since we had the option of doing the lesson plan with a partner. This was a GREAT decision because we worked fabulously together! The stuff that I couldn't figure out she could and vice versa. We worked very nicely together and really fed our ideas off of one another. I really would not have gone back and done this by myself because of how well we worked together. Now, I know when I begin teaching, I will doing lesson plans by myself, but this experience with a partner really helped me learn the process of creating a lesson plan much better. It reduced a lot of the stress and anxiety I was experiencing from doing the lesson plan independently. Once we had our finished product with the worksheet and everything, I could really see how this could be used in an actual classroom. I think Caroline and I did a great job of really making the lesson seem realistic and making it transferrable to the actual classroom. This lesson plan was great practice for when I actually start my teaching and have to create real lesson plans for my class!