Effective Lesson Planning consists of 4 training sessions focused on the key knowledge needed to understand learning and how to use this to produce effective plans that meet the needs of all pupils. 

• Create successful learning objectives
• Differentiate the learning objectives and the activity
• Use success criteria to support learning and differentiation
• Use effective planning to run lessons that support learning

Session Breakdown

Session 1 - Good learning and what makes for a good learning objective

Learning Outcomes:

• See how effective planning leads to effective teaching
• Understand the centrality of learning to the teaching process
• Understand something of the neurological process of learning
• Know how to set a detailed and appropriate learning objective
• Know how you can use key vocabulary to support the learning
• Identify some non-negotiables of lesson planning

Session 2 - Differentiation

Learning Outcomes:

• Understand the need to differentiate the learning outcomes as well as the activity
• Understand how to differentiate the learning objective to challenge all pupils’ thinking
• Understand how to ensure the work meets the needs of the learners
• Have a method for differentiation that can be applied when planning lessons

Session 3 – Success Criteria

Learning Outcomes:

• Understand how to shape success criteria to underpin and support the planned learning
• Understand the difference between learning outcomes and steps to success
• Know how to use the ‘road map’ principle for successful criteria
• Know how success criteria support the differentiation in the lesson
• Understand where success criteria fit in the assessment tools available for a lesson

Session 4 – Putting it together

Learning Outcomes:

• Understand how to ask effective questions
• Understand the importance of a lesson summary (plenary) to anchor the lesson
• See how the elements of effective planning fit around a well-structured lesson
• Appreciate the difference between lesson pace and speed
• Be aware of the importance of your input before pupils’ expected output

Session 5 – Effective lesson planning – review and next steps

Learning Outcomes:

• Revisit the key points of the four training sessions about effective lesson planning
• Reflect on how your practice has changed as a result
• Identify future training needs and opportunities to share good practice
• See the training in the context of the school’s development plan and self-evaluation