The sweet spot is efficient planning that ensures quality teaching without consuming your evenings and weekends.
The Minimum Effective Dose
For most lessons, you need: clear learning intention, success criteria, key activities, resources needed, and assessment approach. Everything else is optional.
Batch Your Planning
- Plan a week's lessons for one class in a single sitting
- Group similar tasks
- Use your program's scope and sequence as a guide
Leverage What Exists
- Colleague resources
- Previous years' plans
- Quality external resources
- AI-assisted drafting
Plan to Reuse
A lesson plan that takes 30 minutes to create but saves 20 minutes every year you reuse it pays off quickly.
TeachPlan's weekly planner makes efficient planning the default with pre-populated syllabus alignment and automatic coverage tracking.