Tutoring lesson plan template

What a good tutoring lesson plan includes

A one-to-one plan doesn't need to be a formal scheme of work. The best ones fit on a single screen and answer five questions: what's the goal for this session, what should we recap first, what's the main thing we'll teach, how will the student practise it, and what comes next — including any homework.

Start from where the last lesson finished. A quick recap surfaces what stuck and what didn't, so you teach the thing the student needs today rather than the thing you planned a week ago. Leave a line at the end for notes to your future self — it makes planning the next session almost automatic.

Copy-paste templates

Replace the bracketed parts with your own details.

Lesson plan — [Student], [subject]
Date: [date]   Focus: [the one main goal for today]

Recap (first few minutes):
[What to revisit from last time]

Main teaching:
[The key idea or skill, broken into small steps]

Practice:
[Questions or a task the student works through]

Homework:
[A short, doable task]

Notes for next lesson:
[What to pick up next time]

Exam-prep plan — [Student], [subject / exam]
Date: [date]   Target: [grade or topic to secure]

Warm-up recall:
[A few quick questions on recent topics]

Focus topic:
[The highest-value topic to work on today]

Past-paper practice:
[Question(s) or a paper section, with timing]

Mark-scheme review:
[Where marks were won or lost, and why]

To revise before next time:
[The one or two things to firm up]

First session — [Student], [subject]
Date: [date]

Get to know:
[Goals, exam board, what they find hard, what they enjoy]

Quick baseline:
[A couple of low-pressure questions to gauge the starting point]

One clear win:
[A single topic to make progress on today, so they leave encouraged]

Agree next steps:
[What to work on next, and any homework]

Notes:
[First impressions to build on next time]

Plan the next lesson without the blank page

The hardest part of planning usually isn't the structure — it's starting from a blank page for every student, every week. LessonBrief turns a few rough notes from the lesson you just taught into a focused next-lesson plan, so you finish a session with the next one already sketched out.

It's built for tutors and small tuition businesses: privacy-first (initials, never full names), plans assembled on our own server from your notes with nothing sent to any outside AI service, and every plan is a draft you review and adjust. You can also schedule the next lesson, and log what you covered to build the student's session timeline — so your planning, your records and your parent updates all live in one place.