Learning and Teaching in Practice/Planning a session/Develop elements of a session

In the previous section we looked at one aspect of the planning process in detail: designing learning activities for active, experiential and deep learning. Now you need to consider different facilitation methods before drawing up your initial ideas for a lesson plan for one session. In this section we will look at how to put everything you have learned so far into practice and develop an effective session plan.

Brett's planning template
Note the column set aside for the learner activity in this lesson plan format:



Page 2 includes space for details of the formative assessment as well as focus questions for your own reflection after the session:



If you find this lesson plan format useful, you can download a template in MS Word format from within the Moodle course: http://moodle.op.ac.nz/mod/resource/view.php?id=169854