TEKS first, and only what Texas can ask for

Texas TEKS Lesson Plan Template

Texas is the one state where the law says what a district may require of a lesson plan, and the form is built to that: the TEKS student expectations with an ELPS line, a We will / I will objective, student resources and materials, and the activities with a check for understanding beside each. Assessment and differentiation are on the sheet but marked optional, because they are. The weekly periods grid is here for the unit-or-weekly plan the statute actually describes.

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2 Texas lesson plan templates

Portrait Texas lesson plan with TEKS and ELPS boxes, a we-will-I-will objective box, a five-row sequence table with resources and check columns, and two boxes marked optional for assessment and differentiation

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Texas TEKS Lesson Plan — Word & Google Docs

TEKS student expectations first with an ELPS line, a We will / I will objective, a five-step sequence with student resources and checks, and the assessment and differentiation boxes marked optional.

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Texas TEKS Lesson Plan — fillable PDF

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

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Landscape weekly lesson plan grid with seven class-period rows down the left and Monday to Friday columns, two boxes beneath for standards and notes

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Weekly Lesson Plan — Class Periods — Word & Google Docs

Seven period rows across Monday to Friday on one landscape page, with a standards box and a bump-to-next-week box underneath.

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Weekly Lesson Plan — Class Periods — fillable PDF

One page, landscape. 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 texas templates

Education Code §11.164 limits what a Texas district may require to a unit or weekly plan that outlines, in a brief and general manner, the information to be presented, and the courts and the commissioner have read that to cover the template itself, the TEKS objective and student resources — with assessment and differentiation a contested addition. Since House Bill 1605 in 2023, a district-adopted curriculum's built-in plans satisfy the requirement outright, which is why the teachers still writing plans in Texas are mostly in electives, career and technical education, teacher preparation and pre-K. This sheet is for them: TEKS at the top, in code and text, because every Texas template leads with the standard.

The We will / I will objective is the Texas idiom — the content objective in we-will form and the language or product objective in I-will form — and the ELPS line is there because the English Language Proficiency Standards apply in every content class with English learners. The optional labels on the assessment and differentiation boxes are not a hedge; they tell a teacher what a campus can insist on and what it is asking for as a courtesy.

Questions teachers ask

Texas lesson plans, answered

Is this the TEA template?

No. TEA publishes no K-12 lesson plan template; the only state form is an optional one for career and technical education. This sheet is built from what Texas district templates have in common and what §11.164 allows a district to require, and the footer says so.

What is We will / I will?

A two-part objective many Texas campuses use: We will states what the class will learn or do, in content terms; I will states what each student will produce or say to show it, often the language objective. Writing both is the Texas habit; the box takes either or both.

Does the plan cover T-TESS?

The Texas Teacher Evaluation and Support System looks for standards, objectives, activities aligned to them, and checks for understanding — all on the sheet. Candidates on a university's T-TESS-aligned form will find the same fields with the reflection added; the evaluation-ready plan in this section carries that reflection.