9 Amazing Lesson Planning Apps and Tools for Teachers
Creating and writing lesson plans are activities common to basic teacher education courses. Before entering a classroom, young educators are taught how to meticulously plan their time for the benefit of their students.
The most obvious way that teachers avoid the traditional lesson planning concept is by finding ideas, or even entire plans, online. This shortcut can be as simple as finding an in-class activity idea on Pinterest or as complex as downloading a grading period’s worth of lessons that are grade-appropriate. Critics of this type of planning cite ethical issues, saying that a teachers’ lesson plans should always be original. Creating these plans is simply part of the job and should never be outsourced.
Even if teachers spend just a few hours per week on lesson plans, that is a few hours of time that educators could feasibly be doing something else. The internet has made so many other professions more efficient – shouldn’t teaching benefit too? We agree. In order to help teachers be more productive, and spend less time developing plans, we decided to do the heavy lifting for them. We created a list of 10 the best lesson planning tools and apps for teachers.
Peerless Common Core-aligned lessons for educators who are serious about their craft.
Amazing lesson planning that is aligned with Common Core and promotes collaboration.
Free lesson planning resources for teachers of the language arts and reading.
A teacher’s resource for reading-comprehension resources.
Well-designed Common Core-aligned lessons.
Research-based site makes it easy to differentiate instruction and readings.
Educators can make multimedia lessons with engaging but not-so-interactive style.
This tool encourages personalization, and teacher led instruction.
Wonderful management tool that helps teachers plan, communicate with students.
Did we miss anything? If so, just tell us in the comments below.
There is one more lesson planning tool in the CLARITY platform, http://www.itutorsoft.com/. Except manual planning, available in that platform, Instructional Engine can execute the lesson plan you developed and automatically generate a personalized tutoring of your students. So, you may devote more time to a few students who are behind or ahead of others.
Thanks for these links! A few I recognize, but most I don’t; I look forward to checking them out. And, as a high school ELA teacher, here are a few other free resources I use:
edutopia.com for Common Core aligned strategies and methods (primarily for high school)
teachingchannel.org for videos that show teachers instructing a segment of a lesson with explanations for their approaches. This resource is also Common Core aligned and covers all grade levels and subjects.