Understanding the Broader Context:

The new Curriculum Standards for Arabic, English, mathematics and science lie at the heart of ‘Education for a New Era’, Qatar’s education reform initiative. The standards draw on international expectations of what students should know, understand and be able to do at each stage of their schooling, as well as on the current best practices in Qatar’s public schools.

The sample lesson plans have been developed for the Education Institute of the Supreme Education Council by the same team of curriculum experts that developed the Standards and the Schemes of Work, guided by the staff of the Institute. Working groups of local teachers and curriculum specialists have helped to ensure that the lesson plans reflect Qatari values and culture, and are relevant to the needs and interests of Qatari students.

Defining Lesson Plans:

Lesson plans are teaching notes for one or more lessons, showing how the learning will unfold to achieve its intended objectives. They are developed to match individual class requirements: for example, students’ differing abilities and the resources available. The best lesson plans will also take account of the formative assessments that teachers have been making. They, therefore, cannot be finalised too far in advance of the lesson.

Listing Lesson Plan’s Objectives:

The objectives for the lessons are drawn from the standards. It is important not to have too many objectives in a particular lesson or block of lessons, so that the teacher and students can remember them. Lessons may also have subsidiary objectives that does not need to be written down. There is no right or wrong way to set out a lesson plan. The main criterion is that it helps a teacher to teach the lesson.

 Typically, lesson plans will:

• indicate the objectives for the lesson or block of lessons;

• stress the relevant vocabulary and technical terms associated with the work in the unit;

• outline how the lesson will start;

• show how work will be developed through teaching input and student activities, with suggestions for differentiation where appropriate;

• indicate how lessons will be summarised and rounded off;

• where appropriate, suggest what homework will be set (most of the sample lesson plans beforehand do not suggest homework because they are single examples taken out of sequence);

• identify links with other subjects;

• refer to relevant resources, such as equipment, chemicals, textbooks and ICT applications;

• include sample worksheets;

• include, where appropriate, a note on safety.

 Each school can develop its own policies for lesson planning, teaching and learning, and assessment, so that as many of its students as possible achieve the standards expected for their grade.

Structuring Lesson Plans:

Each lesson plan has enough material to support at least 45 minutes of teaching, and longer in Grades 10 to 12. Some of them may require double periods of up to 90 minutes to cover a lengthy practical activity. You may need to supplement the activities with simpler or more challenging tasks if the students in your class have a range of attainment. You could choose from activities in textbooks or from your own resources. If you wish, different tasks can be given to different

groups of students, according to their needs. There may be too much material in the lesson plan, since this will depend on the class. In this case, you could designate one of the activities in the lesson as homework, or carry it forward to the next lesson. Be selective about which activity to cut – it does not have to be the last one merely because it comes at the end.

Asking stimulating questions:

An alternative use for the lesson plans is to stimulate ideas about your own teaching. An individual teacher could read and reflect on them, or a group of teachers could choose to read one or more of the lesson plans and then discuss them together. You may decide to start with the lesson plans for the grade that you teach. As you read through them, think about these questions.

 • Most of the lesson plans have more than one objective. Would students ‘learn’ what is intended in a single lesson, or would the objective need to be part of other lessons during the year?

 • How do I normally structure my lessons? How do they start? How do they develop? To what extent is my practice the same as or different from what is described in the sample lesson plans? Do I need to modify my practice in any way?

 • What kinds of activities are offered to students in the lesson plans? Are any of these activities collaborative, in which students are expected to do things together? Do any of the activities require them to discuss with a partner? Do the tasks that I normally give my students require collaboration? Do I need to include a wider range of activities in the future?

 • What kinds of questions do teachers ask in the lessons? Are they open questions, for which a range of answers is possible, or closed questions, for which only one answer is possible? Are students expected to give one-word answers, or to explain and justify their arguments and reasons in a sustained way? Do I need to think more carefully about the questions that I put to students during my lessons?

 • What is the main purpose of the practical activity proposed for the lesson and how likely is it to result in the anticipated outcomes. Are the practical exercises appropriate to the needs of the students and to the demands of the standards? How do such activities match my current practice?

 • How do the lessons described in the plans end? What happens? What discussions take place? What activities do students do? What kinds of questions are they asked? How do my own lessons normally end? Do I allow time for students to reflect on what was important? Do I help them to crystallise the key learning points? Do I need to adapt the way that my lessons end?

Downloadable Versions of the Math Sample Lesson Plans in English

First: The Sample Lesson Plans on Zipped format.

Full version of Sample Lesson Plans for Science: Grades 1-12

ٍSecond: List of Sample lesson plans categorized according to grade: (PDF) 

Introduction and Sample of Math Lesson Plans

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