Hope you had a look at Agile Techniques in School management, that covered benefits at a macro level for the organization. Let’s dig in to the heart of the activities at a school – Lesson Planning and Delivery

With classrooms evolving rapidly due to the changes in the technology adoption for greater efficacy, digitalization and customized content are becoming common stay. Lesson plans are now able to provide differentiated learning and being adaptive as well.  These are traits that Agile methodologies eat for lunch.

This match, thus enables managing lesson plans in ‘learning sprints’ over short periods of time, that can be revisited and updated iteratively. It also makes room for creative ways to plan and track plans for the sprint, and with lessons aligned to the sprints makes tracking and fine tuning. One key point, teachers don’t have to finalize content, but leave space for some adaptation based on feedback and pace of the class, even get creative.

Well sounds like a change of tactics. How does it benefit the teachers, and the key stakeholders – the students ?

For one, it help with an increased engagement of students due to their feedback being part of the development of lesson plans. It also provides a window to continuously improve due to the iterations – a key value from Agile of customer collaboration (student discussions) over contract negotiation (strictly adhering to a plan). Since this mode allows for fine tuning, it also could be personalized to an individual student’s need.

A simple three-step approach on adapting this to a current environment one operates in, would be to

• Break down your lesson plan into 1-2 week sprints.
• Host regular meetings with other teachers to reflect, share feedback, and adjust plans.
• Make progress visible – whiteboards, sticky notes, or apps you may use, and track lesson progress and student responses.

In summary, Agile lesson planning helps create transformative classroom practices, makes learning more adaptive and student-centric. Up Next, we’ll discuss how Agile can improve assessments and exam management.

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