Are Procedural Lesson Plans Worth it? - Work in Progress - Education Week Teacher

In the first five years of teaching, writing lesson plans was absolutely necessary for me. Meticulously I planned the period, minute to minute insuring that everything was covered... just in case. Fearful of deviating, even a little, I wrote down questions with the exact answers I expected. This way I could tell if students were getting what they needed. I look at those early lesson plans and shake my head now, but I needed to be rigid until I found my teaching voice. As time went on, I became more confident and flexible in the classroom, spending less time on...

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