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A great little book for teachers based on robust evidence.- Carl Hendrick, Head of Learning and Research at Wellington College

This book is for any teacher whos interested in improving their lesson planning and practice. It outlines a set of mindsets and habits you can use to help you identify the most impactful parts of your teaching, and put them centre stage.

Its about doing less to achieve more.

But its also about being happier and more confident in the classroom. Building stronger routines around the essentials will give you more time and space to appreciate and think creatively about your work.

POWER UP YOUR PLANNING

Lean Lesson Planning draws on the latest evidence from educational research and cognitive science, to present a concise and coherent framework to help you improve learning experiences and outcomes for your students. Its the evidence-based teachers guide to planning for learning, and sits alongside books such as Teach Like a Champion, Embedded Formative Assessment, and Visible Learning for Teachers.

NOTE If youre looking for ways to short-cut the amount of time you spend planning lessons, then this book is not for you. The approach outlined in Lean Lesson Planning requires effort and practice, that given time, will lead to better teaching and higher quality learning for less input.

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CONTENTS

ACT I Lean foundations
  • 1. Defining lean
  • 2. Lean mindsets
  • 3. Lean habits
ACT II Habits for planning
  • 4. Backwards design
  • 5. Knowing knowledge
  • 6. Checking understanding
  • 7. Efficient strategies
  • 8. Lasting learning
  • 9. Inter-lesson planning
ACT III Habits for growing
  • 10. Building excellence
  • 11. Growth teaching
  • 12. Collective improvement

PRAISE FOR LEAN LESSON PLANNING

How to improve your teaching by planning better. More importantly: how to improve your teaching by doing fewer things better when you are planning. Things that make teachers lives simpler like that are few and far between. - Doug Lemov, Author of Teach Like a Champion

Breezy recap of best practices in lesson planning. Easy to read, pocket-sized. Useful book for the new or veteran teacher in your life. - Dan Meyer, Chief Academic Officer, Desmos

Lean Lesson Planning is the first instalment in the High Impact Teaching series.

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Lean Lesson Planning: a practical approach to doing less and achieving more in the classroom
Peps Mccrea
Copyright 2015 Peps Mccrea
Version 5k, released December 2016
Published by teacherly.co
To Mum, Dad and all you other legends out there.
About Peps
Peps Mccrea is an award-winning teacher educator, author and social entrepreneur.
He is a Senior Lecturer in Teacher Education at a large University in the UK, and co-founder of edtech startups Staffrm and Numeracy Ready.
Peps has three Masters degrees, two small kids, and dances like no one is watching, which is probably for the best.
Visit pepsmccrea.com for the full shebang.
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Contents
Introduction
Why read this book?
This book is for any teacher who's interested in improving their practice.
It outlines a set of mindsets and habits you can use to help you identify the most impactful parts of your teaching, and put them centre stage.
It's about doing less to achieve more.
But it's also about being happier and more confident in the classroom. Building stronger routines around the essentials will give you more time and space to appreciate and think creatively about your work.
Make the most of this book.
Lean Lesson Planning is a result of the lessons I've learned as a teacher and teacher educator, of my experiences helping hundreds of teachers to raise their game.
Where possible, I've tried to ground my work in the most compelling evidence about what works in the classroom.
I draw heavily on thinking from heavyweights like Hattie, Wiliam and Lemov (1). Many of the ideas in this book are not new. They've just been re-framed with a focus on lesson planning.
This book is not a theoretical thinkpiece, nor a practical blueprint. It is a set of tools and strategies you can use as a starting point for experimentation in context .
It doesn't contain specific examples, which can sometimes narrow down practice prematurely. Instead, it uses 'ask yourself' questions to help you identify improvements in practice that will work in your situation.
As with any self-improvement activity, you get what you put in. Without action, there will be no change.
Taking the time to answer these questions properly is an essential step towards doing less and achieving more . There are no quick fixes. If you're looking for ways to short-cut the amount of time you spend lesson planning, then this book is not for you.
Finding your way around.
Lean lesson planning is composed of three acts.
ACT I (Chapters 1-3) sets the scene, offering an overview of the meanings, mindsets and habits underpinning the lean approach. ACT II (Chapters 4-9) unpicks the core habits of lean planning in detail, and then ACT III (Chapters 10-12) takes a step back and outlines a set of strategies for managing our own individual and collective improvement.
Where relevant, each chapter ends with some notes and suggestions for further reading.
I've tried to keep my writing as concise as possible, so you can spend less time reading, and more time putting ideas into practice.
Now open your mind and drink it all in.
Notes & further reading.
1. If you're serious about improving, I'd highly recommend you get your hands on the following three books: Visible Learning for Teachers by John Hattie; Practice Perfect by Doug Lemov; Embedded Formative Assessment by Dylan Wiliam
1. Defining lean
"It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it." Seneca (1)
When society has a problem, it often turns to education for a fix. Recently, society has been having some major wobbles. Teachers are subject to more pressure and higher expectations than ever before.
And yet, the greatest challenge we face is not one that society generates for us. It is one that comes from within.
It is the battle with ourselves. In particular, how best to spend our time. Where to focus our energy and attention, and how to ensure our actions line up with our intentions.
This challenge is not a new one. But changes in the landscape are making it ever more complex to navigate. It is no surprise that in some areas, 50% of the profession leave within their first five years (2).
I believe that one of the biggest professional challenges of our time is to help teachers make better use of their time.
As part of this we need to start asking whether traditional models of planning are still fit for purpose. I'm keen to kickstart a rethink .
The meaning of lean.
The concept of lean is not new. It has its roots in the manufacturing industry, and more recently has found its feet in software development.
Lean is about optimising productivity, about maximising impact for every unit of input. It achieves this by raising the status of high-impact activities, eliminating waste, and making continual, incremental improvements over time.
In the context of the classroom, lean is about achieving as much learning as possible from every minute spent planning and teaching.
It's about directing your attention towards the things that matter, and making small changes to your everyday routines that add up to big gains over time.
It's about doing less to achieve more.
"The best place to look is for small changes in the things we do most often ." Henry Eyring
Notes & further reading.
1. From On the Shortness of Life
2. For more, see The birth of a zombie statistic by Sam Freedman goo.gl/w7eLIV
2. Lean mindsets
Mindsets are powerful things (1). They are lenses through which we make sense of ourselves and the world, and our capacity to change both.
Trying to use the right tactics with the wrong mindsets is like swimming against the current. You'll make slow, exhausting progress, and end up back where you started.
That's why I'm advocating a mindsets-first approach . The following four lean mindsets offer a robust platform upon which you can build the rest of your lean planning approach.
If you already use these mindsets, they will seem fairly obvious. If you don't, they might feel a little uncomfortable at first.
Either way, there's value in knowing your options, and being intentional about your choices.
'Process' mindset.
Unlean mindset : Planning as a filled-in form
Lean mindset : Planning as a thinking process
Planning is best viewed as a process rather than a product. As a stack of habits of thought that you bring into play to prepare yourself for teaching.
It is not a fixed set of procedures that you have to follow, nor a beautifully filled in form.
Sometimes we confuse the plan with the planning, as if they are the same thing. This can lead to situations where planning becomes an exercise in form filling rather than hard thinking .
That is not to say that having a plan is unimportant. Documentation has its uses, and is required in certain situations. However, it's best treated as a by-product and little more.
"Plans are worthless, but planning is everything." Dwight Eisenhower
'Pareto' mindset.
The Pareto Principle (or 80/20 rule) suggests that in many areas of life, 80% of the impact comes from 20% of the inputs. Planning and teaching is no exception.
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