TC257: How to save your sanity creating weekly lesson plans with Rosemarie Penner

Creating weekly lesson plans can be stressful during lessons, and can eat up your valuable planning time, too. Rosemarie Penner of The Unfinished Lesson shares how you can win back your time with making successful lesson plans for your students. She also shares some of the ways to manage online lesson plans, how to engage your group classes online, her must-have app, and more teacher hacks! Rosemarie is currently featured in our new membership course called Lesson Prep Quest in TopMusicPro. This is where you're going to learn the best ways to plan and prepare for weekly lessons with interviews from nine top teachers, including Rosemarie, Nicola Cantan, and more. If you need guidance on planning, changing to group or online formats, or just just up-leveling some of your existing frameworks, this course is for you.

• [02:23] Rosemarie’s short introduction on herself and her teaching experience.
• [04:11] Benefits of a good lesson planning system.
• [05:48] Rosemarie’s favourite apps.
• [07:42] Process for practice planning.
• [11:02] Ideas for group lessons and workshops.
• [18:17] Tips for online lesson planning.
• [22:23] 3 Things you shouldn’t do.
• [25:02] Involving parents in lessons.
• [29:09] Top advice for lesson planning.

Transcript of the show about creating lesson plans

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Links Mentioned

• Must Love Music Website
• Lesson Prep Quest in TopMusicPro

Today's Guest

Rosemarie Penner is an analytical creative… plus online piano teacher and composer at “Must Love Music”! She loves to make learning simple, fun and interactive. When not writing articles (like this one), she enjoys reading and playing video games. For creative ideas and resources, visit Must Love Music.

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