Student Teaching Lesson Plan Template
Central focus, standards with their full text, learning objectives, prior learning, a timed table of instructional strategies with planned supports beside each, an academic language grid, informal and formal assessment, differentiation, materials and a reflection. Two pages when empty; it stays under four when full.
Student teaching lesson plan template
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.
About the student teaching template
Student teachers write the longest lesson plans of their careers, and the university templates that demand them are the ones people describe as excessive. The elements themselves are reasonable — a supervisor who has never seen your class needs the central focus, the prior learning and the planned supports spelled out. What makes them painful is the layout. This sheet puts the same elements in a form that is two pages blank and stays within the four-page limit most programs and performance assessments set, at eleven-point type.
The element list follows what teacher-preparation handbooks commonly require: standards quoted in full, objectives, informal and formal assessments, instructional strategies and learning tasks, resources and materials, with academic language broken into function, vocabulary and syntax or discourse. Pearson's edTPA is a trademark of Stanford University and this is not an edTPA product; its successor assessment launches in 2026, and programs are moving to minimal templates later in placements. The sheet suits either.
Student Teaching lesson plans, answered
Why does the sheet want the standard's full text?
What is a central focus?
Can I drop sections once I'm further into placement?
Drawn and measured in November 2026.