| New teachers often put in 12-16 hour days during their | | | | Long term strategies also relate to educational |
| first year of teaching. This daily routine can be | | | | decisions. Perhaps, new teachers may want to train |
| incredibly stressful during the first year. | | | | his/her students to work more cooperatively. Over |
| Since so much of lesson planning depends on what | | | | time, he or she may start to feel more comfortable |
| happened during the previous lessons, it's difficult to | | | | implementing pair or group work to help foster certain |
| plan a lesson too much in advance. But there are long | | | | educational values such as tolerance and accepting |
| and short term strategies that new teachers can | | | | differences. |
| easily use to help them cope in their first year before | | | | Other Long Term Decisions |
| teaching takes over their lives. | | | | Take time at the end of the week or month, to catch |
| Lesson Planning - Long Term Strategies | | | | up on "where you are" with regard to long term lesson |
| Long term strategies are those lesson decisions that | | | | planning decisions. What supplementary material should |
| relate to academic goals. For example, where does | | | | you add? |
| the teacher want his/her students to be in a month's | | | | - If there is no book, what material should you teach? |
| time? Two months time? Using the curriculum and the | | | | (4th grade, special education) |
| textbook are excellent starting points for helping to | | | | - How should you divide material between semesters? |
| raise the standards and close the gaps of students' | | | | - How should you deal with specific areas such as |
| knowledge. Again, it also important to plan the week's | | | | extensive reading? |
| lesson around what students can actually do keeping | | | | Consult frequently a mentor or work with a teacher |
| the long term target in mind. | | | | who teaches similar classes. You'll be glad you did! |