S Lesson Plan Template
What is S planning?
"S Planning" is used to develop medium- to long-term plans for subjects and topics that make up a lesson plan. S planning is also a great way to organize your thoughts and begin initial planning around a large, complex subject, project or topic.
With this template, you can break down each concept involved in a large, complex topic or subject to ensure you're able to teach through the entire topic within the allotted timeframe.
Who can use this template?
This S plan template is primarily intended to help teachers organize their ideas, resources, and plans to teach a certain subject or topic from start to finish. Ultimately, this s plan template can help you build a thoughtful, well-organized lesson plan that achieves your and your student’s goals.
Why S planning is useful
S planning is useful because teaching an entire subject or topic can be complex with many important details then ensure comprehension over the course of a lesson plan. Instead of starting from scratch or trying to organize many complex sub-topics into a formal plan, S planning allows you to start organizing your lesson plan around the key milestones you need to teach from start to finish.
How to create an S lesson plan
You can use this template to create an S plan that can be used directly as you teach, or used to formulate a formal lesson plan.
Pink stickies in the template indicate larger, overarching, or key topics you need to reach throughout the course of the timeframe.
Yellow stickies in the template indicate smaller sub-topics or learning steps that build to each of the milestones.
Here’s how to use this template for your S planning process:
First, identify four core pillars of your subject from least to most complex, or by building on dependencies. If the subject takes place on a timeline, for ex., the rise and fall of the Roman Empire, you can organize pillars from earliest to latest large events.
Then, identify each of the core sub-topics you'll need to cover to ensure student comprehension between each of the core pillars.
Finally, add your core and sub-topics onto the board to fill the pink and yellow stickies, respectively.
(Optional) Add more notes and stickies to document ideas around each of the S-Plan stickies including recommended resources, scaffolding ideas, practice, examples, or other helpful teaching aids.
