Free Lesson Plan Template
Design a lesson on one sheet: learning intention, success criteria, sequence, differentiation, resources and a reflection line, ready to reuse next week.
Quick answer
Design a lesson on one sheet: learning intention, success criteria, sequence, differentiation, resources and a reflection line, ready to reuse next week.
About this template
A lesson plan that lives in a word document gets copied forward with its blind spots intact. This worksheet puts the parts that decide a lesson on one screen: the learning intention and success criteria students will actually see, the sequence with timings, the questions you will ask, where you differentiate for stronger and struggling learners, what resources you need, and a reflection line to fill after the lesson. Save it per topic and the next version starts from last year's answer, corrected.
Live Preview
Fillable sample lesson plan preview - fields and options you can adjust before you publish.
What's Included
Everything you need to run this template.
Criteria students can read
Success criteria written in student language, not teacher shorthand.
Talk pre-planned
A key-questions box keeps the lesson from drifting into monologue.
Differentiation decided early
Support and stretch are assigned to named groups, not improvised.
Reflection captured
One line after the lesson becomes next year's starting point.
How It Works
From copy to deliverable in four steps.
Set the fields and options
Copy it in and set the stages your planning format requires.
Plan the lesson
Fill intention, criteria, sequence, questions and resources.
Teach and reflect
Write what changed once the lesson is done.
Reuse and revise
Copy per topic next term and edit from your own reflection.
Who Is This For
Pick your role — see how it fits your workflow.
New teachers
Plan a defensible lesson without inventing the structure weekly.
Subject teams
Keep one planning format across a department.
Teacher trainers
Give trainees a sheet supervisors actually ask for.
Key Features
What makes this template work as a professional deliverable.
- Learning intention and success criteria on fixed lines
- Sequence with planned timings per stage
- Key questions field to pre-plan the talk
- Differentiation rows for support and stretch
- Resource and equipment checklist
- Post-lesson reflection and change-for-next-time field
Sample Questions Inside
A preview of the real fields and prompts - adjust wording, options and length to your own process.
- Lesson topic and class set
- Learning intention in student language
- Success criteria students can self-check against
- Stage sequence with timings
- Key questions to ask (three minimum)
- Support and stretch planned for which students
- Resources needed and who brings them
- What changed after teaching it (reflection)