How to write lesson plans

It has been said that teaching is easy, but writing lesson plans are hard. Is this true? Well to quote one teacher," To write a lesson plan all you have to do is outline everything you're going to do in every minute of the class." Doesn't leave much for spontaneity does it?

Well, I propose that lesson plan writing can and should be easy. But what if lesson plan writing isn't what you need. Lesson plan writing is always what you need, you just don't realize it. You don't need to be a teacher to write lesson plans. If you are going to teach someone something, tell them something, or even just create a way for someone to understand something better. You better have something written down, or at least some notes or it's going to sound something like this:

First you do A. Then you do B. After B, you have to check C. Oh, wait, that's right you need to also look at G,H,I. But, A is the best thing to do first. If you are confused by this little statement, this is what your student has just heard...because they don't know anything of what you're talking about and those "important" ideas might have well as been A, B, C.

This article is to help everyone write lesson plans better:

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1874139/how_to_write_lesson_plans.html?cat=4