Lesson planning and resources

Lesson planning

You are responsible for planning sessions and providing the required resources. Creating and personalising lessons to match the needs of your pupils is a key aspect of being a tutor and is therefore an essential part of tuition which you are paid for.

To support you in planning your own creative and tailor-made lessons for the specific needs of your allocated pupils, we have high-quality resources and guidance which you can access for free at any time.

Lesson plan proforma

We provide a Lesson Plan Proforma for you to use and annotated examples of ‘good’ and ‘outstanding’ lesson plans so you have examples of what high-quality planning looks like.

During Core Training we support you to use our proforma to plan high-quality lessons for tuition through online training and our live training sessions.

All lesson plans must be completed electronically so that, if another tutor is required to cover your session at late notice due to sickness or unforeseen circumstances, we can provide them with your original lesson plan.

We expect all tutors to:

• Use the Lesson Plan Proforma during training; and
• Use our Lesson Plan Proforma for any formal monitoring, i.e. a Lesson Plan Spot Check (LPSC) or for a face-to-face Lesson Observation in school/college.

Once you become more experienced and confident with planning, you may choose an alternative method when planning all other lessons (outlined below), i.e. when not being monitored.

We expect recently trained tutors to:

• Continue to use the Lesson Plan Proforma to support you if that’s what you find useful;
• Use our five-minute lesson plan to speed up the planning process, but still include everything we expect;
• Use a PowerPoint which follows the Tutor Trust lesson plan structure;
• Use a weekly planner; or
• Use a combination of the above.

Subject knowledge

As a Tutor Trust tutor, you have already demonstrated good subject knowledge in your exam grades. Subject knowledge is a key aspect of tuition and drives tuition quality and impact.

As a tutor you are accountable for your own subject knowledge. It is important that you continue to develop your subject knowledge whilst you are tutoring with us.

The National Curriculum is a good place to start when it comes to thinking about your own subject knowledge in anticipation of planning lessons. The National Curriculum sets out the programmes of study and attainment targets for all subjects. These are split up into key stages and then year groups.

The primary curriculum is made up of the Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 programmes of study and attainment targets. The secondary curriculum is made up of the Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4 programmes of study and attainment targets. The National Curriculum must be taught by law in all local-authority-maintained primary and secondary schools in England.

Schemes of work

We have some schemes of work which schools specifically ask for, and some assignments which come with specific lesson plans and resources.

These include (but are not limited to):

• KS4 Maths GCSE foundations
• KS3 Literature Lit Up
• Primary Progress - Puppies and Pirates (English & maths)
• Axiom maths

Further support

If you are accepted to work on one of these assignments, your Programme Coordinator will be in touch with more details about the resources and to add you to the relevant networks.

If you ever require support with lesson planning and resources, please get in touch with our Tutor Engagement and Support Manager, who will be happy to help!