Learning focus, outcomes and teacher notes

Use these when you plan a lesson that someone, possibly you next year, should be able to teach without re-reading every worksheet.

• Learning focus belongs to the whole lesson: what the class is about.

• A learning outcome belongs to a worksheet: what a student can do after it.

• A Comment is a note to the teacher inside the material, such as how to guide the class step by step. Students do not see it.

• A Teaching method box is an instruction students do see, such as how to discuss the task with a partner.

1. Open the lesson for editing and open the Curriculum tags panel (the graduation cap) from the panel bar.

2. At the lesson level of the panel, write the Learning focus, for example “Comparing the features of leaves”. It is saved when you leave the field.

3. Choose the worksheet in the panel's list, click Add outcome and choose Create a new outcome. Write what the student can do and click Save. You can also add one From a curriculum or Reuse one of yours.

4. In the worksheet, click the + where the note belongs, search for Comment and insert it. Write a short title and the note.

5. For an instruction students should follow, insert a Teaching method in the same way and write it.

6. Open Print preview to check what goes on paper.

In a session, students see the Teaching method box like any other content. Comments are not shown to them; only those running the session see them. Print preview and printouts also leave Comments out, while the Teaching method stays in.

• Write an outcome as something a student does: “compares the shape and edge of two leaves”, not “leaves”.

• A Comment is hidden from students and from print, but it is not private. Colleagues who open or reuse the lesson can read it.

• If you project your own presenting view, Comments appear on it. Use a separate screen for the class if your notes should stay yours.

• Never put answers in a Teaching method box: students read it.