You’re probably planning lessons all wrong…

In the UK at least (and I’d be interested to know if this is true elsewhere), lesson planning seems to be getting increasingly complicated. I am old enough to remember when training was all geared around the three part lesson. That is starter, main activity and plenary. Then it moved more into students making demonstrable progress in each and every 10–15 minute block of time. A goal that was and is, clearly impossible to achieve. Nowadays it seemed that lessons should be planned around how learning should be structured for children with special educational needs (SEN) such as dyslexia or ASD or ADHD. Or for children who are disadvantaged because of their social or economic background. Or their prior attainment. Or their reading ages. Now I am absolutely not suggesting that all of those children need to be supported and most likely be given extra help to close any gaps but that shouldn’t be the main thing in a lesson. <a href="https://medium.com/@ianhardiman/youre-probably-planning-lessons-all-wrong-47ee4b166116">Website</a>