Resources for Parents: How Teachers Structure Their Lesson Plans and Day Plans (Daily Subject Schedule) for One Full Week

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As teachers are expected to teach the local provincial curriculum (here, that’s the Ontario Curriculum for Elementary and Secondary grades), teaching is very intentional; teachers take great care in structuring their lessons so they evoke student learning. 

To help them organize the flow of the lesson so it progressively goes from simple to complex, and from guided to independent, teachers rely on lesson plans to scaffold student learning

To help during this unprecedented time as we remain under lockdown, I’ve provided sample Lesson Plan templates via Google Docs that will automatically prompt you to create a blank copy for your personal use only (and so multiple people aren’t making changes to a single document). 

The first is the one I’ve come to use in my own teaching while the remaining three are Google templates.  

FREE Lesson Plan Templates:

I’m also attaching a sample daily schedule to help parents understand how teachers structure their days for Junior / Intermediate students (Grade 4-6 and 7-8). As these are free resources, they are not intended for anything other than for your own personal use, and to help you structure your child’s learning during social distancing and the COVID-19 pandemic, should your child be ready to transition to a more structured daily schedule (not all learners may be, and this is OK; each child is coping differently during this pandemic). 

FREE sample daily schedule (what a daily schedule is like at school) and day plan

Additionally, Google has launched their own Google for Education learning portal with some interesting learning resources, such as for Language, Arts & Culture resources (note that these aren’t specific to the Ontario curriculum, but may complement some objectives nicely). 

My hope with these posts is to help support parents and learners, and if you would like to see anything specific, please comment below and I will do my best to help. 🤓

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