Designing Lesson Planning

Intro

Welcome to the Opening Doors to Discipleship module on Lesson Planning. The material in this module has been created by Dr. Rebecca Davis from Union Presbyterian Seminary.

In this module, you will learn how to create strong and impactful lesson plans. This module is great for anyone leading an educational ministry in which the leader is responsible for creating the content of the program. For example, a Bible Study group, youth group, or children’s ministry program that is not using a curriculum OR is using a resource that does not have lesson plans set out in it. This module will also help leaders who are running one-off events that have learning objectives, such as a church picnic that also involves a Scripture-based lesson. Some leaders might even find it useful to use this lesson planning material to plan meetings. Go ahead and explore to see what parts of this material could be used to enhance your educational ministry.

This series of handouts will walk you through the development of the various pieces of a lesson plan, including the teaching proposition, content, and context, as well as how to put it all together into a publishable quality document.