Sample ILAW Lesson Plan Template Based on DepEd Order No. 016, s. 2026
A practical and editable lesson-planning guide organized around Intentions, Learning Experience, Assessing Learning, and Ways Forward.
What is the ILAW Framework?
DepEd Order No. 016, s. 2026, titled Guidelines on Lesson Planning and Learning Design, provides a more flexible and context-responsive approach to lesson preparation. It directs attention to the quality and coherence of instructional decisions rather than the length of the written lesson plan.
The framework guides teachers and Alternative Learning System implementers through four interconnected components:
What learners are expected to know, understand, demonstrate, or accomplish.
The experiences, interactions, resources, and learning process that will help learners achieve the intentions.
The evidence used to determine learner understanding and guide instructional adjustments.
The next steps, extended learning opportunities, interventions, and teacher reflections after the lesson.
The Four Components of an ILAW Lesson Plan
Intentions
Intentions identify the applicable curriculum standards, learning competency, specific learning objectives, and relevant learner context. The teacher begins by deciding what learners should master by the end of the lesson or learning sessions.
Learning Experience
Learning Experience describes how learners will be prepared, guided, engaged, supported, and given opportunities to apply their learning. It may include pre-lesson activities, lesson development, application, contextualization, differentiation, and learning resources.
Assessing Learning
Assessing Learning focuses on evidence gathered throughout the learning process. Assessment should reveal learner progress, misconceptions, and support needs so that the teacher can make timely instructional adjustments.
Ways Forward
Ways Forward identifies what should happen after the lesson. It may include enrichment, intervention, remediation, extended learning, communication with stakeholders, or adjustments for the next session.
Sample ILAW Lesson Plan Template
This compact form is designed for easy completion, printing, and adaptation. The prompts are intentionally brief so the template remains a planning tool rather than a compliance checklist.
ILAW LESSON PLAN
Intentions • Learning Experience • Assessing Learning • Ways Forward
How to Complete the ILAW Template
Identify the competency and applicable standards before choosing activities, resources, or assessment tasks.
Consider prior learning, readiness, interests, language, strengths, barriers, attendance patterns, and available learning time.
Objectives should describe what learners will know, understand, produce, perform, explain, or demonstrate.
Every activity should contribute directly to the intentions. Avoid activities included only for decoration or routine compliance.
Check understanding throughout the lesson instead of waiting until the final activity to determine whether learning occurred.
Ways Forward should respond to actual learner evidence rather than a generic statement repeated in every lesson plan.
Declaration and Proper Use of Artificial Intelligence
AI assistance should not replace the teacher’s professional judgment. The teacher remains responsible for the curriculum alignment, appropriateness, accuracy, contextualization, and quality of the lesson plan.
Replacing Teacher Judgment
- Submitting a fully AI-generated lesson plan without review;
- Allowing AI to make core instructional decisions;
- Using unverified or inaccurate AI-generated content;
- Ignoring learner context and curriculum requirements; or
- Entering confidential learner information into public AI tools.
Teacher-Directed Assistance
- Checking grammar and spelling;
- Improving clarity of teacher-written instructions;
- Formatting or organizing teacher-developed content;
- Generating options for review and adaptation; and
- Assisting with routine technical tasks.
“AI assistance was used only to check grammar, improve the clarity of instructions, and format the lesson-plan document. The learning objectives, learning experiences, assessment activities, and instructional decisions were developed, reviewed, and validated by the teacher.”
Write a direct statement such as: “No AI tool was used in the preparation of this lesson plan.”
Transition Period for SY 2026–2027
Teachers may continue using the DLL or DLP formats previously provided under DepEd Order No. 42, s. 2016 until the end of the first term of SY 2026–2027.
Full implementation of the revised lesson-planning guidelines begins in the second term of SY 2026–2027.
What Teachers and Instructional Leaders Should Remember
It is a sample organization and should not be treated as the only allowable format for all contexts.
Brief notes, bullets, annotations, and integrated responses may be sufficient.
Teachers should avoid artificial statements written only to fill every space.
A concise and coherent plan may be stronger than a long, repetitive, or disconnected document.
Lesson plans should be examined for curriculum alignment, coherence, learner responsiveness, and useful assessment evidence.
LAC sessions and collaborative planning may be used to share resources and strengthen instructional decisions.
A new template does not automatically improve teaching. ILAW becomes meaningful only when it strengthens the alignment among curriculum intentions, learner experience, assessment evidence, and subsequent instructional decisions.
Read the Complete DepEd Order
Teachers and school personnel should read the complete issuance, including its policy provisions, implementation responsibilities, transition arrangements, and annexes.
VIEW DEPED ORDER NO. 016, S. 2026 OPEN THE OFFICIAL PDF
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