LESSON PLANNING

It is defined as a teacher plan for teaching a lesson.

Or

A lesson plan is a detailed step by step guide that outlines the teacher’s objectives.

Richards (1998) suggest that lesson plan helps the teacher to think about the lesson in advance, to resolve problems and difficulties, to provide a structure for a lesson, to provide a map for the teacher to follow and to provide a record of what has been taught.

REASONS FOR PLANING A LESSON

There are some internal and external reasons for planning a lesson (McCutcheon.1980).

Teacher plan for internal reason in order to feel more confident, to learn the subject matter batter, to enable lesson to learn more smoothly, and to anticipate problems before they happen.

Teachers plan for external reason in order to satisfy the expectations of the principles or supervisor and to guide substitute teacher in case the class needs one.

A productive lesson plan is not one in which everything goes exactly as planned, but one in which student and instructor learn from each other.

Components of lesson plan

Setting goals or planning

Developing activities or execution

Determining material or evaluation

Phases of LESSON PLAN

A lesson plan has five phases:

1-Perspective/opening

role of teacher: ask what students have learned previous lesson, preview new lesson.

Role of student: tell what they have learned previously, respond to preview.

2-stimulation

Role of teacher: prepare students for new activity presents attention grabber

Role of students: relate activity to their lives, respond to attention grabber.

3-instruction/participation

Role of teacher: present activity, check for understanding, encourage involvement, preview future lesson

Role of student: do activity, show understanding, interact with others, give inputs of future lessons

4-Closure

Role of teacher: ask what students have learned

Role of students: tell what they have learned.

5- follow up

Role of teacher: present other activities to reinforce same concepts, present opportunities for interactions

Role of student: do new activities, interact with others

These action verbs make easier for the students to understand the lesson that they have learned.

Need of lesson planning

To guide or direct the teachers

To make teaching systematic and organized

To make effective time management

To stop unnecessary reputation of content

To link knew knowledge to previous knowledge

IMPORTANCE OF LESSON PLANNING

Lesson planning is important because:

It enhances the confidence of teachers

It enhances effect of teaching

develop good habit of planning lesson before teaching

It saves time and energy of teachers

Conclusion

A good lesson plan maintains the attention of students and increase the likelihood that a teacher wants.

A clear lesson plan will also maximize time and minimize confusion of what is expected of students thus making classroom management easier.

An activity arranged by the teacher about topic of the lesson is more powerful tool to Indulge the student attention towards teacher and students can understand the lesson simultaneously, this will help them to study easily.

Before starting the new topic revise/remind the previous lesson to the students either by asking question or by taking test and during the topic also relate it to the previous lessons so that they revise it and keep them in their minds.