Unit 2: Planning engaging and productive lessons

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Lesson planning is a crucial task to get right.

In order for teachers to ensure engaging and productive lessons that will provide thorough learning for pupils, they must continue to develop their practice and ensure their lesson planning is formed around the desired outcomes.

Aims and outcomes

Participants will be able to:

select purposeful, efficient activities to aid pupil learning
implement backward design for productive and effective planning
identify their own practice and discuss planning strategies moving forward.

Unit content

Unit 2: Planning engaging and productive lessons

Step 1: Thinking about lesson planning
Step 2: Approaches to lesson planning
Step 3: Why use backwards planning?
Step 4: Planning using backwards design
Step 5: Planning in practice
Step 6: Bringing it all together
End of Unit 2 quiz