MMU Secondary PGCE Lesson Plan 2020 - 2021
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Guidance
You must produce a lesson plan for every lesson you teach. You will also be
required to evaluate your lesson at the end of each lesson or day. This is to enable
you to identify aspects of the lesson that worked well or that you need to improve
for next time. You must use the MMU lesson plan for all of your lesson plans and
then store them in your Teaching Experience File (TEF).
We advise you to complete a cover sheet for each of the classes you teach and keep
this to hand when you are planning each lesson, so that you use this to inform your
planning and to reduce the amount of paperwork you must complete for each
lesson you plan.
A lesson plan should help you to (ISEDE)
1. Identify what you want pupils to learn
2. Structure the time you have and ensure that the lesson has pace to give it
momentum and to maximise engagement
3. Establish what knowledge you will be required to know in order to teach
subject knowledge to your pupils
4. Design the pedagogies and methods you plan to use
5. Ensure that ensure pupils are learning what you intend them to
Lesson structure can differ but it is helpful to plan using something similar to the
following as a rough guide:
1. An entry task
2. A review of prior learning and / or existing knowledge
3. A main task
a. Live model an example
b. Provide a worked example or part-worked example
c. Allow for collaboration between pupils
4. Questioning and feedback
5. A further task or plenary
6. Questioning and feedback
7. A clear sense of where the next lesson will take learning.
For each stage of the lesson, you must be clear about your instructions,
expectations and intentions.
In addition, each stage must relate to the previous stage, or else, prior learning
from a previous lesson.
The content of your lesson should be ‘drawn down’ from a scheme of work. A
scheme of work is a planning document which allows you to ‘map out’ a sequence
of lessons so that you can see what aspects of a topic are going to be covered in
what time frame and how these lessons will be taught. So, if you know that you are
teaching a topic and you know exactly what pupils are expected to learn in that
topic, plus, you know you have to do this in 18 lessons, you can plan a road map
which allows you to see how you can do this, a little like a timeline.
One way to approach a scheme of work is to start at the end and work backwards.
We might do this because we know at the start, what we want pupils to know by
the end of the scheme or sequence. Another benefit of this is that you can ‘plot’
where knowledge will be revisited at intervals so that knowledge is recursive and
students are able to make connections and conceptual relationships. This method,
known as ‘spacing’ aids students in being able to remember knowledge.
Schemes of work give you the clear ability to ensure that you cover all of the
material you need to and to avoid running out of time, falling behind or falling out
of step with the department or school’s assessment schedule.
Activities for all subjects:
To plan a timeline with an end point – work backwards and insert knowledge and
review, interleaving, assessment and testing
Add to the timeline for each lesson, an objective for each lesson
This could be modelling on the board as a shared exercise
Pairs attempt a plan on the proforma using one of the lessons from their scheme
of work.

MMU Secondary PGCE Lesson Plan 2020 - 2021
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Provide students with a scheme of work as a model so they don’t confuse with the
timeline
Lesson plan explanation
Class: Date, time, room: Topic:
Objectives for this lesson:
Outcomes from this lesson:
Subject knowledge required:
Knowledge revisited:
Duration (+time) Teacher activity / pedagogy /
implementation
Pupil activity / learning Learning checks (inc. questions)
/ Assessment
Support, challenge, intervention
This requires you to establish clearly and specifically what you want pupils to learn in this lesson. Most lessons will have 2-3. This
is the intent of your lesson.
This requires you to establish precisely what students will produce or gained by the end of the lesson.
This is where you record all of the specialist subject knowledge you have acquired and may need in order to teach this lesson
with expertise and confidence.
Record here, what knowledge from prior learning you intend to revisit, review or refer to throughout your lesson.
Keeping
you on
track and
keeping
pace
i.e. 7 mins
Give yourself cues
for what you are
doing at each stage
of the lesson and
consider carefully
how you are doing
Record something
here for every
stage of the lesson.
How are you
ensuring that pupils
are always engaged
How are you
checking
understanding?
i.e. Cold-calling
questions, live
marking,
What form of
intervention
might you use and
for whom?

MMU Secondary PGCE Lesson Plan 2020 - 2021
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Class: Date, time, room: Topic:
Objectives for this lesson:
Outcomes from this lesson:
Subject knowledge required:
Knowledge revisited:
Duration (+time) Teacher activity / pedagogy /
implementation
Pupil activity / learning Learning checks (inc. questions)
/ Assessment
Support, challenge, intervention
Evaluation of the impact of the lesson and set action point for improvement: