Use these lesson plans to plan effectively by using strategies such as clustering learning objectives, sequencing lessons and day-to-day assessment.
How to plan your lessons
You may find it helpful to work together as a department on the detail of one or two key lesson plans as you develop particular units. If you work together on a cycle of plan-teach-review you can keep developments focused and specific. Choose a priority for your collaborative work and aim to plan lessons which build on the principles for effective learning.
The principles for effective learning are to:
- build on the knowledge pupils bring to a sequence of lessons
- expose and discuss common misconceptions
- develop effective questioning
- use cooperative small-group work
- emphasise methods rather than answers
- use rich collaborative tasks
- create connections between mathematical topics
- use technology in appropriate ways.
Examples of lesson plans
Download and browse Key lesson plan: Fraction operators (PDF-44 KB) Attachments to get ideas to share with other teachers in your department and for your own classroom. Normal lesson plans are not written in this detail. Use the following plans to give you ideas about the headings in a plan, the flow of learning in a lesson and how one lesson builds on another.
- Key lesson plan: Fraction operators
- Mathematics with ICT in Key Stage 3: Magic squares
- Matching expressions
Reviewing your planning
Work with your department to review and improve your planning in the following ways:
- set up a cycle of collaborative plan-teach-review to improve the structure of unit plans. Use the unit planning section of the Secondary mathematics planning handbook
- set up a cycle of collaborative plan-teach-review to improve the mathematical activities which inform your unit plans. Use the rich tasks section of the Secondary mathematics planning handbook
- improve your pupils’ skills in mathematical process and problem solving go to Key processes
- improve teaching techniques and departmental dialogue about pedagogy use the structured tasks informed by 10 case studies in Improving teaching and learning in mathematics: Improving teaching and learning in mathematics: Case studies (PDF-929 KB) Attachments .
