EP250 Peek inside one teacher's lesson planning process—and how she streamlines to stay ahead (with Megan Faherty)
Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers
Angela Watson
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
"When I leave school, I'm not only ready for the next day, I'm ready for the rest of the week. I almost never do planning or preparation the day before."
These are the words of high school social studies teacher Megan Faherty, who's sharing her lesson planning strategy in today's episode.
Megan's overall strategy boils down to making decisions about planning early, so her day-to-day work consists of simply implementing the decisions she's already made.
During our conversation, Megan will share the 9 steps of her lesson planning process. She'll also share tips on overcoming obstacles to efficient planning, suggestions for team planning, and lessons she's learned from hybrid and virtual teaching over the last 2 years.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 250 of Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers. I'm your host Angela Watson |
| 0:07.2 | and I'm here to speak life, encouragement and truth into the minds and hearts of educators |
| 0:13.0 | and get you energized for the week ahead. Today, I'm talking with Megan Fairety about |
| 0:17.6 | her lesson planning process and what she does to streamline and stay ahead. Visit truthforteachers.com |
| 0:24.2 | to get an easy to read, easy to share version of this podcast episode. |
| 0:29.7 | This episode is sponsored by like a sponge, a podcast for parents from the nonprofit |
| 0:34.6 | grade schools about how children learn. This year, they delved into a question totally |
| 0:39.9 | relevant for teachers. How can we transform the 200-year-old institution known as the American |
| 0:46.3 | High School and make it more equitable, student-centered and humane? In each episode, we hear |
| 0:53.2 | stories from educators who reinvented their practices and policies to solve for disengaged |
| 0:58.4 | students, generational trauma and a legacy of racism. It's all part of transforminghighschool.org, |
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| 1:37.0 | support and community you need to find your next career, or just build a side hustle |
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