Standard to exit ticket

Daily Lesson Plan Templates

The one-page format most districts expect: standard, objective, essential question and materials at the top, a timed procedure in the middle, assessment and differentiation underneath. The second version is the same plan with the time column already marked out for a 90-minute block.

Standard period or block

2 daily lesson plan templates

Portrait daily lesson plan with standard and objective boxes, a timed procedure table of five segments with teacher and student columns, and assessment and differentiation boxes

Word Google Docs

Daily Lesson Plan — Word & Google Docs

Standard, objective, essential question and materials up top; a timed five-row procedure from hook to exit ticket; assessment, differentiation and homework beneath.

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PDF

Daily Lesson Plan — fillable PDF

One page, portrait. Type into the fields or print it blank and handwrite.

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Portrait 90-minute block lesson plan with a minutes column pre-filled from 0 to 90 beside six segments including two work-session rotations

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Block Schedule Lesson Plan (90 minutes) — Word & Google Docs

Minute marks already in the time column — 0–10, 10–30, and two work-session rotations — so a 90-minute block plans itself around the rotations.

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PDF

Block Schedule Lesson Plan (90 minutes) — fillable PDF

One page, portrait. Type into the fields or print it blank and handwrite.

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Specifications: US Letter, 8.5 × 11 inches. Word files are editable .docx that open in Word 2007 through Microsoft 365, including Word for Mac; the Google Docs link makes a copy in your own Drive; the PDF has real form fields and prints as plain hairline boxes when blank. Free to use in as many classes as you like, no account, no watermark.

Why it is laid out this way

About the daily lesson plan templates

No state mandates a lesson plan format. What most principals and teacher-prep programs ask for is the same nine things, and this sheet has them in the order evaluators read them: the standard, the objective in students-will-be-able-to form, the essential question, materials, a procedure with times, how you will assess, how you will differentiate, homework, and a notes line for what to bump.

The procedure table is deliberately labelled hook, direct instruction, guided practice, independent practice and closure rather than anything subject-specific. A template written for one subject is the thing teachers in every other subject complain about. The time column is empty on the standard sheet and pre-filled on the block sheet, where the work session is split into two rotations because that is how a 90-minute class actually runs.

Questions teachers ask

Daily Lesson Plan lesson plans, answered

What should a daily lesson plan include?

At minimum a standard, an objective, the sequence of what happens with rough times, the materials, and how you will know students learned it. Most district formats add differentiation and homework. Anything beyond that is for a specific audience — an observer, a student-teaching supervisor, a sub — and this section has a separate template for each of those.

How detailed should the procedure be?

A phrase per row for your own use; a sentence or two when someone else will teach from it. The rows have room for either. Veteran teachers describe their working plan as a couple of bullet points per segment, with the detail living in the unit and the materials.

Which should I use for a 45- or 60-minute period?

The standard daily plan. Its time column is blank so you write your own marks. The block version is only worth using when the class is long enough to need two rotations in the work session; for a single period it leaves rows empty.