Teaching plan

Try to make a written teaching plan that goes over what you’ll cover. This helps to keep on topic (not going off on tangents and running over time) and making sure you cover everything. The plan is very related to Team teaching, since the plan is the implementation of the team-teaching (saying who does what at each time and all).

Example plan

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This plan format has worked well in the past. It worked very well, because:

• It has outline and timing - agreed with instrutors.

• Has everything that need to be said and typed - no surprises, nothing left out.

• Allows us to avoid saying too much - we try very hard not say anything we haven’t prepared (other than audience questions of course).

  • We don’t read/follow the lesson paragraph-by-paragraph. Learners can do that on their own time if they want (for example during the exercise time or after the course).

• It is very closely aligned to the lesson: ideally, each heading/chunk in the plan corresponds to one section. When we get to that section, we scroll to it, and instead of reading from the lesson page, we talk according to the plan.

• It isn’t that much work to prepare.

• It forces us to test every command in advance.

  • If a lesson has the exact command you run it it, it’s not necessary to make another copy. Though it may not hurt.

• We can still easily adapt the exact words we say to the need.

• We don’t have read the lesson word-for-word.

TODO: more advice added here.