Schedules and Lesson Planning

Help for Special Educators

Part 3 of the Series: Self-Contained Schedules
Today we are going to finish our Self-Contained Schedule series with part 3, which is about schedules and lesson planning. I continue the discussion from last week on station rotations by extending it to a new schedule/lesson plan overview I use for myself and my two teaching assistants. This is a short one-page schedule that has a schedule for each adult in class. This was a weekly schedule that tells what topic/subject each person will be teaching. After printing it out, I would sometimes add in things by hands, such as page numbers when using a textbook.
Next, I talk about how to use the General Schedule from Episode 8 and 9 to develop your lesson plans when you have a substitute. I share one sample schedule for the sub. In this discussion, I also talk about inclusion, PE with multi-grades and more!
Finally, I address the most common question I get, which is what do you teach all day? What do your paraprofessionals teach all day? Well, the lessons we taught came from all kinds of sources. So I list all types of activities we did in our groups throughout the day.
You can also download the schedules from today in the Episode 10 freebie. However, if you would rather not create your own from scratch, you might be interested in purchasing all the schedules in this series plus 10 more from my TeachersPayTeachers store. This popular resource has 16 total schedules included. They are all MSWord documents, but I have opened them all in Google Docs as well. So you can open them up, and cut/paste all your own information. It is a great time saver! Get all the links in the show notes at https://lisagoodell.com/podcast10