When the last bell rings, and the students are all ready to go home, for a teacher, that’s when the preparation for the next day begins.
Part of the teacher workload crisis is teachers having to spend way too many hours in lesson planning. Do the math:
The current approach being used in most schools is to create teams so teachers can have weekly planning meetings and discuss about planning ideas. Tasks are then distributed and each teacher ends up either planning a lesson by themselves or what is even more frustrating is being handed lessons prepared by someone else that they have not contributed to.
And the underappreciated factor of planning is the amount of time it takes to find all the resources to make lessons engaging and interactive enough for young tech-savvy students with short attention spans. If teachers get stuck, collaborating with other colleagues can be difficult as it’s not always possible to arrange face-to-face meetings. Teachers also face enormous pressure to meet deadlines and submit plans to a Head of Department. Having to edit lesson plans to reflect minute changes also adds to a teacher’s workload.
Is this an effective way to plan?
So how can teachers save time spent on lesson planning?
With Teacherly, a platform that allows you to:
✅ Plan interactive lesson with ready made templates
✅ Collaborate with your teams in real time through chat and video messages
✅ Find all your lesson resources from within the platform
✅ Assign lessons to students and track their progress through an analytics report
See how to create your first lesson with Teacherly:
How does Teacherly make your planning more effective?
With our platform, teachers now have a single shared platform to facilitate lesson implementation. They can choose the standards they want to cover in the lesson. It allows them to effectively plan for the varied learning levels within a given class. They can invite other teachers as collaborators to their lesson, exchange messages about planning ideas and decide on reinforcement activities, starters and wrap-up or plenary as a team.
Want a free trial? Sign up today! And make your resolution for the new year 2020 to be: real collaboration that promotes efficiency and a higher quality of lessons.
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