By far the best Lesson planning video on youtube. I am a first year teacher and this video helps me a lot. Thanks so much for taking the time to make this video.
I just love your videos and your mild mannered demeanor! I have been out of teaching for 15 years due to raising my own children and taking care of my family. I plan on returning within the year, but I am a little nervous because I have been on hiatus for so long. I know things have evolved since I last taught, so I have been watching videos trying to get up to date and refresh my memory. Your calm and thorough explanations have been so very helpful and beneficial to me. I’m a very visual learner, and can’t thank you enough for showing in detail how you lesson plan. I subscribed. Thank you! 🙏🏽
I'm a college student going into elementary education and I want to say I love your videos! You make everything so simple and clear to understand and I love that!
My school doesn't require having objectives posted but I am so used to doing it that I do it anyways. I do I am learning statements for what the student is learning that day. They seem to really respond to that. I teach middle school, but I love your channel. It helps me get back into teacher mind frame when I'm feeling down. 😀
This video is SO helpful! I'm a junior Elementary Education major about to start a full year of student teaching, and it seems like none of my professors have gone over the lesson planning and pacing process. You just relieved me of a ton of my anxiety, thank you!
You're welcome. I am so glad that I was able to help you. I agree, lesson planning and pacing is not covered very much in school. You really don't get good practice with it until you are thrown into it your first year of teaching.
This was so helpful! I'm about to start student teaching and I want to use planbook.com so this was such a great video for me! My class will be third grade too and I have to do the edTPA for literacy. I'll be rewatching this video a couple times! I love this series, please continue it!
This is a wonderful video Jenn! I'm currently a junior majoring in Early Childhood Education (Grades P-4th) and I love your teaching vlogs! Thank you kindly for all the insight you give on your channel! You truly have become one of the many great teacher-vloggers that fuels and inspires my passion to teach. The time, effort and information you share with us is much appreciated as a pre-service educator. Keep up the great vlogs!
How fun!!! I just got my masters. It was a lot of work, but I'm glad it's over with so I can get back to focusing on teaching. Balancing the two was difficult. Good luck to you in getting your masters. I know it's a lot of work, but it will be well worth it.
Knowing your husband is in the military and you being a teacher made me need to watch you 100x more! 😫 I want to be a teacher and I've always thought being a military spouse would make that ten times harder. I have to see how you do it! 😊
+m loha My husband is in the reserves, so we don't have to move. There is a lot of training though which means he's gone a lot. When he's gone I usually film more videos and snuggle with my dog. 😊
Thanks for the Video! Apologies for chiming in, I would appreciate your initial thoughts. Have you tried - Millawdon Future Ticket Trick (just google it)? It is a great exclusive product for teaching children to read without the normal expense. Ive heard some decent things about it and my m8 got great success with it.
Thank you for a detailed list of resources and a comprehensive look into your lesson planning process. I am newly returning to teaching and used to use a system similar to yours, and I wanted to see some of the newer resources that are available once I get my own classroom. I am hoping there is a similar program to planbook.com available in Canada (I teach in Mississauga, Ontario) with our curriculum guidelines. It looks like the perfect way to plan for teaching using the curriculum.
Thanks Jennifer for sharing your way to plan and develop your lesson plans, This is my first year teaching, and I find it difficult to plan my lessons, but your video is simple to understand and plan weeks of lessons simple. KUDOS!!!! Thank you. ? Do you have any suggestion on edTPA planning.
Yeah, it really depends on your school and what they require. That's why I thought it was important to start with an introduction because there are TONS of ways to lesson plan. What I learned to do in college was not the same way I was required to turn into my principals. But... I did learn the basics and for the most part, other than formatting, all lesson planning is the same. :-)
You aren't using the Houghton-Mifflin for guided reading though, correct? My principal insists that we ONLY use Jan Richardson's guided reading template for our GR lessons. When I stared teaching over a decade ago we could pull from the TEs from basal programs, but like you supplement with other resources and programs. This was before common core changed the game. If an admin. walked in my room in my district and saw me using one of TEs they would have my head. I just got chewed out for using the format in Guided Reading: Making it Work published by Scholastic which I have used for years effectively, yet because it wasn't Jan Richardson I was told I was wrong. I thought the goal was to teach children reading. Anyone who has been teaching more than 2 years knows that there is more than one way to teach reading so I am so glad you said that.
No, I am not using Houghton Mifflin for guided reading. I have always used guided reading programs like SIPPS, or just make mini lessons based on what my students needed more support in based off of data. Yes, I am very fortunate to be pretty flexible with my reading instruction. Of course I do use our district curriculum, but I find in necessary to supplement as well. As long as we are teaching our standards and providing quality instruction that our students need, we can basically use whatever we want during guided reading time.
Thank you!! This is a great video! Do you have a video showing your usage of Erin Condren lesson planner? I find myself not using it and it cost me quiet a bit of money. Thank you in advance 😊
I plan on showing you how I use my Erin Condren lesson planner when I am finished with my lesson planning series. I love it, but I agree it is costly. I am thinking of designing my own for next school year.
biggest problem with lesson planning is the current trend where each person at your grade level team takes a subject and writes a lesson plan for that subject and then shares out. Problem is that some of the team members, who are often unenthusiastic teachers, write some really bad plans. Partly in their defense, admins focus on trying to play "gotcha" when they are asked to submit electronically....So rather than a well thought out lesson plan, some plans are really desperate...Admin accepts anything as long as they are turned in at their times requested. I'm old school and back in the day, everyone wrote their own set of plans which makes more sense as each classroom has a different set of students and each teacher truly knows their students' needs.
I totally agree! I've been in situations where I have to take a subject and plan. I also have been in the situation where I plan everything myself. Currently, we talk as a team about our pacing, but we all plan separately. I love being in charge of my own plans. I get to plan with my teaching style in mind.
@@JennuineTeaching thanks for your reply...P.S. so enjoy all of your vids...You truly are one of the most dedicated teachers.....Even in this global crisis, you continue to roll your sleeves up and move forward. Greetings from El Paso, Texas
Great video. I would like to know where I can find the POV song you mentioned in your plans? I love Read.org. I havee been using the article of the day for extra science reading to support the text. I also teach third grade. (23 yrs.)
The video is originally from Flocabulary, but I found it on RU-vid. I haven't checked out the article of the day, but it is definitely something I am very interested in learning more about. Maybe something fun and informational for morning work.
Thank you very much, I really appreciate your videos. I am also very interested in your planners, are they available for purchase? I see that the days are compartmentalized for elementary school. Can a middle school ELA teacher plan with this website. I don't see the same kids all day. I teach several classes throughout the day. So I would never plan for math.
i mean did you know what your structure was for the entire year and then fill out your lesson plans? how does a first year instructor come up with the lesson plan?
