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Strong routines and protocols are fundamental to an efficient and effective classroom. To help my students learn and maintain these routines and protocols I use a template for my daily lesson slides. Each section of my slide has a purpose and they help my students answer a lot of their own questions throughout the whole class period. Here is a breakdown of how I format my daily lesson slides and if you like them, make a copy of this template and make them your own!
Warm Up Slide
My instructional routine ALWAYS starts with a warm-up task to get students transitioned into our lesson. Sometimes the task is content-based, like in this photo to the right. Sometimes it is an action task that helps students get prepared for the activity of the day, such as "Grab three different colored pencils and clear off your desk."
Across the top of the warm-up slide is the date, the letter day (our school does A and B day schedules), my Bitmoji to remind them what day of the week it is, the goals of the lesson and instructions for what to do with their homework from the night before (some days we turn it in, some days they take it out to go over).
Down the left-hand-side is a set of announcements and reminders. I like to include the daily homework, a reminder of the next test date, when my extra help day is, and other fun announcements like birthdays and big school events!
Make this your own: What are the daily reminders and tasks that your class starts with? How could you use your first slide effectively to help your students answer their own questions and build seamless routines?
Moving On To The Lesson:
I find that I tend to have three activities that we transition to throughout each of my lessons.
First, some kind of direction instruction
Next, some kid of implementation practice, often with a partner or small group
Next, some kind of technology-based or game-based formative assessment of the skill taught that day.
Here's an example of how my slides change for these types of activities:
The top of the slide simplifies to just include the date and letter day, the lesson objective goals, and an image to display my expectations for phones/headphones during that section of the lesson. I will remove the red symbol when my students have independent practice time (where I allow them to listen to music), or when they are on their Chromebooks (when they can listen to videos in activities, or music).
Along the left-hand-side is a running agenda of where we are at in the lesson. It alleviates the question "Is this what we're doing all period?!" or "What are we doing next?!" or "What are we doing right now?" In the template I placed "A" , "B", and "C" as placeholders for the three activities of the lesson. If you have less parts to your lesson then just delete the extra letters. If you have more, then just add some more!
I end the agenda section with a reminder of the homework so I don't have students asking "What was our homework again??"
As we transition to the next activity in the lesson, I strikeout the previous activity on the Agenda list and I will change the title at the top of the white section to match (the latter isn't really necessary and sometimes I delete it if it's too crowded!...Remember, you can do whatever you want with your own slides!) You'll see the current activity becomes bolded too, to show students what we are currently working on.
In the white section of the slides I like to explicitly outline the activity directions and protocols. In these examples they are pretty basic. But If you've seen my stations activity outline before, you'll see how I breakdown protocols for each station on the slide. It's really helpful to leave this slide up during the lesson so students can refer to it to answer their own questions!
My Daily Closure Task
All of my lessons (except when I lose track of time 😜) have a planned closure task. Sometimes it's verbal, sometimes it's written. It always encourages students to summarize the big goals of the day. Here's an example of one:
Make this your own: What are the daily reminders and tasks that your class ends with? How could you use your last slide effectively to help your students answer their own questions and build seamless end-of-class routines?
Make Them Your Own - Here's the Template!
If you like this structure, then make it your own! Think about your own teaching style and the different routines and protocols that work for your classroom. Then, take the template to these slides (which can be found here) and get started on making it your own style! You can edit everything on these slides - change the colors to whatever you want (truthfully, mine are my school colors!); change the fonts to be your favorite fonts, change the letter day section to match the needs of your school's schedule. You can - and should - change whatever you want! Below is a screenshot of the five slides in the template:
Share your questions, comments and experiences in the comments below!
Which part of these daily lesson slides is your favorite?
What questions do you have about these slides and strategies?
What challenges or successes have you had with daily lesson slides?
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