Lesson Plan Template

About this template

When to use

For planning one 90-minute session: what you teach and where learners end up, on a single page. Fits in-house training, academy curricula and new-course approval requests.

Filling order

1. Update the info table: date, author, department, document number. Swap DOC-2026-001 for your course code so session plans stay grouped.
2. 1. Learning objectives is one lead sentence plus three bullets. Write each bullet as something the learner can do afterwards.
3. Fill 3. Key concepts before 2. Wrap-up. Wrap-up sits in slot 2, but teaching order is objectives, concepts, wrap-up; swap the two blocks to match.
4. In Key figures the top row is numbers, the bottom row labels. Replace 6 weeks / 12 sessions / 3 assignments / 90 minutes.
5. Leave the writer, reviewer and approver cells blank and print for signatures.

Examples

• Objective: the learner can calculate inventory turnover and pick the three slowest items.
• Key figures: 8 weeks / 16 sessions / 4 assignments / 100 minutes.

Splitting the 90 minutes

Budget 10 minutes opening, 35 concepts, 30 practice, 15 wrap-up, and note them in brackets on each section lead.

Common mistakes

• Flipping the figures table so the display formatting lands on the labels.
• Pasting from another file and breaking the bullet style; paste as plain text.
• Objectives written as “understand X”, which cannot be checked afterwards.