There are countless ways to write up your lesson plans.  Some teachers and administrators like long, detailed lesson plans complete with an outline of information to be delivered.  Others like the short and sweet one week summary, with objectives, activities, and assignments.

No matter what type of lesson plan you prefer, it will help make your life easier to have en electronic template (probably in MS Word or Excel) to begin with.  This way you can type up your lesson plans, save them to your computer, and avoid making countless copies of a blank template that you got from a co-worker four years ago.

Here are two different blank templates that you might find useful.

The first template is designed for supervisors and teachers that like a brief overview of the lessons.  It is an Excel Spreadsheet with room for five days of lesson plans on one page.  It includes fields for all of the typical lesson plan parts - Objective, Do Now, Opening, Activity, Closing, Materials, and Follow Up. 

There is a field at the top of the sheet for Content Standards.  I use this for the New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards (required by my district), but you can simply delete that line if your district doesn’t require any type of content standards on your lesson plans.

Download the Blank Weekly Lesson Plan Template.

The second template is designed for supervisors and teachers that prefer an in depth plan for each day.  I don’t know why a supervisor would want to read through that much text for each day’s plan, but some do… and you’ve got to do what they want you to do.  So, here’s an alternative template in MS Word. 

It has headings and a bullet point list for all of the major topics you’ll want in your lesson plan - Behavioral Objectives, Content Objectives/Standards, Do Now/Opening, Activity/Delivery Outline, Closing/Recap, Materials, Instructional Strategy Used, and Follow Up/Homework.  It’s thorough and long, but it should do the trick if that is what you’re looking for.

Download the Detailed Daily Lesson Plan Template.

Enjoy, and happy planning!

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