Lesson plans are a complete waste of time.
There. I said it.
Few demands get under the skin of classroom teachers more than being told to hand in detailed lesson plans.
It’s not that teachers don’t need to plan.
Planning is an essential part of the job.
Every day before students come in, you decide which activities, assignments and discussions would be effective for you and your students.
However, that’s personal, idiosyncratic and informal. It’s the FORMAL lesson plans that have next to nothing to do with what goes on in the classroom.
I’m talking about the kind with detailed objectives often written in behavioral terms (i.e. Students Will Be Able To…), essential questions that are supposed to link your units into cohesive blocks, explicit reference to the formative and summative assessments you plan to give and exhaustive reference to every Common Core Academic Standard non-educators…
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