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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is a spin off of the thread on alternate certification for teachers.

If you are a classroom teacher responsible for teaching certain content, and have a lesson plan to teach that content, but get a whole new group of students with very different needs, how do you rewrite that lesson plan to now meet the needs of your different students?

Can you show me a "before" and "after" of your lesson plans (abbreviated, of course)?   Do you need to completely rewrite the entire plan, or just alter it?

If you have one plan for higher achievers, and one for the less prepared in terms of background knowledge, do you need to alter it a third and forth time, for everyone in between?

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There are a lot of questions here! I am working on lesson plans right now so I will answer just briefly:

-Good teachers teach students, not just content. I have 25 unique students and I have to write lesson plans that address their needs, not the needs of my kids last year. 
-Many times things are handed down from admin that we have to incorporate. Sometimes this requires major re-writing of lesson plans
-There is a ton of teacher turnover. I am teaching a grade that I taught 2 years ago and none of the other grade-level teachers are still there. This years team has different ideas than the team from two years ago
-Documentation is a major issue. In an ideal world every lesson would be well documented and then handed down from year to year. In an actual world, this does not happen anywhere close to 100%
-Good teachers constantly revise and improve their methods and plans. So I use lesson plans from a previous year, but I know now what went well and what didn't and this takes a lot of revision to incorporate. Sometimes these changes are over-arching and have a domino effect in causing changes for a whole series of units or lessons. [/quote]

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