The NaCCA lesson plan template
Every basic-school teacher in Ghana hands in the same document: a weekly lesson plan (your lesson notes) in the format GES vets. The template itself isn't complicated, but it's unforgiving, because a missing indicator code or a wrong header field is what gets a note bounced. Here is the full format, field by field.
The header block
The header is a bordered grid at the top of the note that identifies the week's work against the curriculum. You can see it filled in on the completed sample below. What each field carries:
- Subject, Class, Class Size: your teaching assignment. Class size matters to vetting because differentiation should reflect it.
- Week Ending and Duration: the Friday date of the week, and the length of each period.
- Strand and Sub-strand: where the week sits in the curriculum's structure, copied exactly from the NaCCA document.
- Content Standard and Indicator(s): the codes the whole plan hangs on, for example B7.3.1.1 and B7.3.1.1.1. One standard can carry several indicators in a week.
- Performance Indicator: the "learners can…" sentence describing observable success.
- Core Competencies: the NaCCA competencies the lesson develops, such as Critical Thinking and Problem Solving (CP) or Communication and Collaboration (CC).
- Teaching / Learning Resources and Reference: what you'll teach with, and where the content comes from (the syllabus or a textbook, with the page).
The three phases
Below the header, each day's lesson runs across three columns:
- Phase 1: Starter: a short activation, recalling prior knowledge or hooking the class into the topic.
- Phase 2: Main: the new learning, activities and assessment for the day. This column carries the weight of the lesson.
- Phase 3: Reflection: consolidation and plenary, plus a Remarks line you typically fill after teaching.
A weekly note repeats this day by day: Monday through Friday, each with its date, duration and period, so several lessons live in one signable document.
The closing block
The note ends with the facilitator's name and the vetting lines: Approved By, Sign and Date, where the headteacher or circuit supervisor signs after checking the note.
The template, filled in
The same format with a week's work in it: B7 Mathematics on angles, built on indicator B7.3.1.1.1. This is exactly what teache prints, from the header grid to the vetting lines, ready to sign.
Weekly Lesson Plan
Week 8 · Term 1 · 2026/2027
Subject: Mathematics Class: B7 | Week Ending: 16 October 2026 Duration: 60 min | Strand: Geometry and Measurement Sub-Strand: Shape and Space Class Size: 45 | |||
Content Standard: B7.3.1.1 — Demonstrate understanding of angles including adjacent, vertically opposite, complementary and supplementary, and use them to solve problems. | Indicator(s): B7.3.1.1.1 — Measure and classify angles according to their measured sizes: right, acute, obtuse and reflex. | Week: 8 Term: 1 | |||
Performance Indicator: Learners can measure angles with a protractor and classify them as right, acute, obtuse or reflex. | Core Competencies: Critical Thinking and Problem Solving (CP) | ||||
Teaching / Learning Resources: Protractors, angle cut-outs from cardboard, photocopied angle worksheets | |||||
Reference: Mathematics Common Core Programme Curriculum (B7), Geometry strand | |||||
| PHASE 1: STARTER | PHASE 2: MAIN | PHASE 3: REFLECTION |
|---|---|---|
| Monday | ||
Learners hunt for angles in the classroom: door half-open, corner of the blackboard, hands of the wall clock. Quick recall of the right angle from primary work. | Demonstrate measuring with a protractor on the board. In pairs, learners measure the cardboard cut-out angles and record the sizes. Introduce the four families with boundary values: acute (less than 90°), right (exactly 90°), obtuse (between 90° and 180°), reflex (greater than 180°). Learners sort their measured cut-outs into the families. Assessment Learners sort angles into right, acute, obtuse or reflex from photocopied worksheets with several angles to measure (angles not drawn to scale). | Pairs swap worksheets and check each other's classifications. One learner per row states an angle from daily life and the class calls out its family. Remarks: ________________________ |
Facilitator: ______________________
A real week carries a row like this for each teaching day, all under one header and one vetting block. The assessment task above isn't ours: it's the official exemplar attached to B7.3.1.1.1 in the curriculum, which is exactly the kind of detail teache surfaces while you plan.
teache fills this entire template from the seeded NaCCA curriculum: you pick the indicators, it brings the codes, competencies and exemplars, and prints the exact format above. You can download the blank template or start your own.