Christmas Break: Lesson Plan for the New Semester (Tenure: +10)

Leah spent the day at home preparing for the new semester. She was anxious to start the second semester, even though she wasn’t a new teacher. But she wanted to make sure her history lessons were engaging and organized for her students.

She sat down at her desk and opened up her laptop, pulling up her Google Classroom. She enjoyed a nice cup of coffee as she focused.

As she browsed through the previous year's lesson plans, she made notes of what worked well and what needed improvement. She also took some time to brainstorm new ideas for activities and projects that would make history come alive for her students. Leah knew, like most teachers—that planning on the front end made things so much easier in class.

Jonathan happily retreated to his computer where he played some new video games he got with some Steam gift cards. He could get engrossed in there for hours on end. Leah couldn’t understand it, even though she could just as easily get engrossed in a book. To each their own.

Leah felt like this extra prep would certainly help with the coming semester.