Daily Lesson Plan

While you do not need to have every period for every day of the course planned out before camp starts, you do need to plan several periods and you should not walk into class on any given day without a firm idea of what students may do that day. You will often alter this plan during the course of the day, but at the very least, you need something to fall back on.

Let's start with some background theory. Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences is incredibly useful for writing daily lesson plans because it guides educators in thinking about ways to keep activities varied and to keep students engaged. The act of going down the list of intelligences and imagining how to approach a given topic from each intelligence can reap great rewards. Click here for Gardner's FAQ on the topic.

Another useful theory is Bloom's taxonomy of educational objectives because it guides teachers in tiering lessons on top of each other in order to work from more basic to more complex forms of understanding.

There are various formats that teachers find useful for developing daily lesson plans. Here is one template in which you could plug in your input (ignore the part about standards). This is a 7-step lesson plan format and another simplified lesson plan format. Finally, this site describes six common mistakes teachers make while lesson planning and what you can do about them.