Introduction to Lesson Planning

Preparing a Lesson Using RBP VBS Guides

Course materials are an excellent starting place. However, they are only a starting place. In order to effectively teach students, you will need to take the materials and use those materials to inform your lesson design.

The first step in designing a good lesson is identifying your lesson objectives.

Learning Objectives

Learning/outcome objectives are the critical starting point from which you can build your activities and lesson plan. Well-formed objectives will help you develop activities that are focused and relevant. A good objective is important regardless of what level you are teaching. Unfortunately, our curricular materials do not always use good learning objectives and sometimes fail to give any learning objectives. Regardless, you as the teacher, should develop learning objectives for your lessons. When forming learning objectives it is good to keep the following three principles in mind.

A good learning objective should be:

• Specific
• Measurable
• Attainable

Some Bible curriculums include a desired student response. This is a nice inclusion, but it is not a learning objective but rather a purpose statement.