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TEACHER PROBLEM: Planning takes your time
You spend your evenings, weekends, holidays, and breaks using AI and searching for content and creating engaging, relevant, aligned, and paced lessons. Maybe you’re supposed to be planning right now…
SOLUTION: Varsity Education
Your planning is done. Sourcing, planning, differentiation, and pacing are done. Presentations, study, and practice pages are done. Assessments are done. Immediately access your complete lessons. Enjoy your evenings and weekends!
It was Friday night and I had finally left around 10:30 or 11 pm.
I was trying to get everything done so I could enjoy my weekend and spend time with my family, but I just got too tired.
I decided to come back the following Saturday morning to finish.
“Sorry, kids, we have to work. Yes, even on the weekends.” (wife is a teacher, too)
Study the needs of the students
Find interesting content
Choose engaging stories
Pace the lesson
Differentiate
Align the standards
…
Truthfully, when including many requirements, it can take an hour of planning for each quality, engaging, rigorous and relevant lesson.
Early mornings to campus.
Late evenings in the classroom.
Late nights at home.
Weekends.
Holidays...
Last-minute copy line waiting.
Scouring the internet.
Running to colleagues.
Coaching sports.
Advising clubs.
Going to school.
And...ugh... if you have to plan for a sub...
Most online resources provide a worksheet or a presentation and you still have to create a plan around it.
VARSITY EDUCATION provides complete lessons, starting with complete plans, and includes, presentations, study materials, practice activities, movement activities, and assessments for…
BOTH IN CLASS and ONLINE learners
created with free and easy-to-use Google Applications.
– Clear objectives
– Everything is aligned
– Much is customizable
We include embedded reminders for comprehension quick checks throughout the lessons and easily-graded assessments at the end of each lesson!
Your privacy is paramount. We do not share or sell email addresses.
Detailed Lesson Plans
Lately, administration has been requiring detailed lesson plans. Ours include pacing, materials lists, technology use, higher-order thinking questions, standards-alignment, movement activities, guiding questions, real world connections, content synthesis, various types of assessments…
Presentations
Guide the class or assign students to guide the class with complete presentations that include guiding questions, videos, images, text and questions.
Text Study
Full text to introduce, explain, inquire and revisit important points throughout the lessons that include detailed images to help students visualize concepts and make connections.
Practice Inquiries
Scaffolded, open-ended questions that support higher-order thinking development in your learners within the lesson with opportunities for you to make corrections before they complete a graded assignment based on content knowledge
Assessments
How well did your students retain the knowledge or skills that were studied? Assessments come as quickly-gradable multiple choice and open ended inquiries – you choose which to use.
Digital Version
If your learners have access to computers, tablets or the use of smart phones, you can assign the digital (aka online) version of the lesson that includes all of the same content as the regular lessons. Easy to assign for days with subs or kids out sick through any LMS.
Curated Videos
We have spent the hours it can take to find appropriate videos for each lesson.
Organized Resources
Get a little more of what you need quickly by accessing teaching and learning resources for your subject content.
Practice before Assessment
Class is the time to make mistakes. Practice inquiries and activities allow students to develop their knowledge in your class with your guidance to correct their comprehension and skills.
Engaging Images
Provoke emotion, consideration, empathy and inquiry with a wide variety of images that engages students.
Current Events
Where applicable, we use current events to engage the students, careful to keep focus in the lesson content.
Bellringers
Warm-ups. Do-now. Whatever you call them, as soon as the kids enter your room, they have something to engage their thinking in your subject based on their previous learning in your class.
Calendars & Pacing Guides
Realistic & flexible guides to take you through the year with built in flex days for testing and the occasional fire drill.
With over 30 combined years and 8 degrees in education, we have the necessary skills to help you and your students be successful with a variety of learning opportunities.
Varsity Education is designed and maintained by currently active public school educators that keep up with the current trends in education and combine the newest activities with the tried and true methods that have worked for over half a century in both rural and urban settings.
Lesson planning can be very specific and very important for the academic and social growth of your learners. This site was specifically designed to assist classroom teachers to have one location where you can access all of the organization framework and materials that you need to introduce, teach and assess learners using a combination of our proprietary PISPA model, Gradual Release of Responsibility and (revised) Blooms Taxonomy.
In addition to the lesson materials, Varsity Education also offers a social platform for you to communicate with other teachers from around the globe and offer and receive assistance on various areas of the professional practice of education.
Do you have a suggestion? Has something worked for you in the past that you’d like to see incorporated? Did something completely flop?
We are NOT the big multi-million dollar publishing company that believes we know what is best.
We didn’t spend millions on textbooks that can’t be changed until the next edition.
We’re not involved in state politics.
We are everyday classroom teachers. Talk to us as professional colleagues. We’re listening.
Continuing Education
Staff & Department Meetings
Student paperwork, grading, parent phone calls, emails
Professional Development
…other obligations🤨
For less than one to two hours of work per month, you can have over 160 hours of student engagement per month ready to go. Just display, print, teach & grade.
Spend more time in the classroom developing relationships with your kids and connecting them to your content and more of YOUR time on yourself, your family and your friends.