One of the most time consuming items of scheduling is creating a daily lesson plan for each child in your homeschool classroom. The lesson plan includes everything that you need to cover with your homeschool student on that particular day. This will be required for each student individually.
It is a great tool for a homeschool teacher who is starting out and may not be sure about how to proceed through the day. It gives details about what needs to be done that day and in what order. This can make one less thing to concentrate on when you are new to handling your homeschool classroom.
Often while teaching the homeschool students may end up covering more material than originally planned for the day when they are working diligently. This happens when they get into the flow and want to know more about what they are learning. It is also equally possible for a number of lesson plans to get completely set aside in case of illness or other equally mitigating circumstances.
If for some reason your day doesn’t go as planned, the entire lesson plan needs to be revised for the next day. Instead of trying to map out every single day in detail, it would be easier to have a weekly plan about what all lessons need to be covered. That way the homeschool teacher has a good idea about how to stay on track even if the daily break up gets skewered.
Whether you should have a detailed daily plan or not is a matter of individual preference. Some homeschool teachers like to just keep an eye on a fixed number of lessons per subject to be covered during the week, without having a detailed plan for each day.
This is a big picture sort of manner of organizing your teaching. It works for a number of people. However if you are the sort of person who needs to have as much detail and structure as possible in the homeschool classroom, it may be a good idea to make the daily lesson plans before the academic session starts.
