I once worked under a school leader who decided that every teacher, no matter how experienced he or she is, had to write detailed lesson plans for every lesson. Even HODs had to do it.
I repeat. Detailed lesson plans for every lesson. Every day.
The lesson plans had to be deposited into a Google folder and everyone could see each other’s lesson plans.
Of course it is important for a teacher to plan lessons. But asking everyone to formally plan for everything was quite a stretch to say the least. They were some who resisted but those who never do were flagged out and pretty soon everyone fell in line.
I would do my planning on Sundays. First, I would check to see if my HOD had done hers. If she had not, I would relax a bit…
What was the rationale of this? I guess it was to make it easier for the school leader to keep track of what everyone was doing all the time.
I wonder if this school leader is still doing this practice in her current school.
Anyway, this is the age of AI so teachers can just use this prompt:
Generate detailed lesson plans for all the lessons in my timetable based on the following topics. I have ________ lessons for Sec 2, _________ lessons for Sec 3 and ___________ lessons for Sec 4. Make sure that these lesson plans show a development that follows the topics listed in the Schemes of Work for the various levels (see uploaded images) for Week __________. The lessons should include scaffolding activities and several activities based on different abilities. Each lesson plan should include a debrief/recap for the students.