Change is inevitable

Throughout the process of lesson planning, I’ve found that the biggest surprise to me was how much my lesson plan changed from draft to draft. I initially didn’t expect this to happen, I just assumed that each draft would be an enhanced copy of the previous one, adding more content as we expanded our knowledge through the course. This was the initial result of the first to the second draft, but then as my lesson partner and I approached the date of presenting our lesson and as we planned out the details of it, we noticed it vastly misaligned with our previous lesson plan drafts. As we created the NearPod slides to present to students, and fine tuned our in-class activities and assessments, we realized that the lesson we were constructing was far off from what our original idea was. As the date of our lesson approached, I began to re-write our lesson plan again and again to try to re-align them, but what I didn’t realize is that this change is inevitable. Each draft of our lesson plan was an improvement of the last, and even though our lesson didn’t match the first few drafts, it was a lesson that we felt was much more effective than what would have come from our original lesson plan.
One thing I really enjoyed about lesson planning was using a resource our class has created to help us in designing classwork and assessment. Throughout the semester our class has kept a Google Doc with teaching strategies we have come across. Each student has posted at least two or three each, which has added up to quite a wonderful assortment of strategies we could use in our lessons if we wish to do so. In addition, as we further our college career and dive into the depths of education, we can always refer back to this document for ideas of teaching strategies. This will be especially helpful when it comes time to student teach and create lesson plans for that. The link to this strategy log can be found here.

Lesson Plan Draft 1

Lesson Plan Draft 2

Lesson Plan Draft 3