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1. PAL Guiding Questions

A Thinking and Reflection Routine
for Practitioners

This master file for reflecting on all three stages of planning a lesson can be helpful for individual practitioners wanting to interrogate their  lesson planning practices to improve learning and lesson flow.

It can also be used in a number of ways by adult educators for team building and reflection. 

For more ideas about how to use this thinking routine to improve lesson planning, simply go to the Guiding Questions/Reflection page.

Pre-Lesson Considerations and Opportunities to Transform Common Challenges into Opportunities

Arriving to class—be it remotely or in a face-to-face setting—can be stressful for LBS learners who find themselves in new situations, are back to learning after a long gap, juggle life demands, or are unsure of how to navigate being a student that increasingly requires digital skills. 

Use this chart to help you situate your own learners and pre-lesson issues that can affect a lesson before it begins.

Consult the lesson planning companion to remind you of some key tenets of learner-centred lessons that can help engage your learners and assist you in integrating technology in a purposeful way throughout every lesson component.

This slide deck will offer extra tips.