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The lesson plan formats, ready to print
The annual, weekly and daily sheets in the Ministry's layout, as A4 PDFs, with a note on what goes in each column.
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Annual lesson plan
One grid for the whole year, unit by unit.
Download- Month and weeks
- When the unit is taught and how many weeks it takes.
- Topics and main contents
- The unit title and the topics inside it.
- Periods and pages
- How many periods the unit needs and which textbook pages it covers.
- General objectives
- What students master by the end of the unit.
- Rationale and prerequisite knowledge
- Why the unit matters and what it builds on.
- Methodology, aids and assessment
- How it is taught, with what, and how learning is checked.
A4, landscape
Weekly lesson plan
One row per school day for the week ahead.
Download- Day and periods
- Which day and which periods the lesson takes.
- Unit and topic
- Where in the annual plan the lesson sits.
- Objectives
- What students can do at the end of the lesson.
- Activities and assessment
- What happens in class and how learning is checked.
- Resources and homework
- What is needed, and what is set for home.
A4, landscape
Daily lesson plan
One lesson, stage by stage.
Download- Topic, rationale and prerequisites
- What the lesson is about, why it matters and what students already know.
- Objective
- What students will be able to do at the end of this lesson.
- The three stages
- Introduction and motivation, main activities, concluding activities.
- Teacher's and students' activity
- What each side does in every stage.
- Assessment, aids and remark
- How learning is checked, what is used, and a note for later.
- Learner support
- How slow, medium and fast learners are carried through the lesson.
What each sheet is for
The annual plan lays the whole year out unit by unit: the month and weeks each unit takes, its periods and textbook pages, the objectives, the rationale, what students need to know first, the methods, the aids and how it is assessed.
The weekly plan is the working page between the two. One row per day: the periods, the unit and topic, the objectives, the activities and assessment, the resources and the homework.
The daily plan is the sheet a supervisor asks for on a classroom visit. It opens with the topic, why it matters and what students already know, states the objective, and then walks the lesson through its three stages with a column for the teacher's activity, the students' activity, assessment and aids. A block at the bottom notes the support for slow, medium and fast learners.
- Is this the format the Ministry uses?
- The columns follow the Ministry of Education's lesson plan sheets as schools in Ethiopia file them: the annual unit grid, the weekly page and the daily plan with its three stages and learner support block.
- Can I edit the PDF?
- The sheets are blank forms for printing and filling by hand. Teachers who want to type, reuse last week's plan and get it approved online do that inside Temari's lesson planner.
- Which version should I download?
- Whichever your school files plans in. The columns are the same on every sheet. Only the headings change.
- Do I need all three sheets?
- Most schools ask for the annual plan at the start of the year, the weekly plan before each week and the daily plan for every lesson. Check with your department head which ones your school collects.
Plan online, print when asked
Temari's lesson planner fills these same sheets from what you type, tracks which sittings were covered, and sends the plan to the director for approval.
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