Decisions involved in planning lessons:
Planning is imagining the lesson before it happens. This involves
prediction, anticipation, sequencing, organizing and simplifying. When teachers
plan a lesson, they have to make different types of decisions which are related
to the following items:
- The aims to be achieved;
- The content to be taught;
- The group to be taught: their background, previous knowledge, interests, etc.
- The lessons in the book to be included or skipped;
- The tasks to be presented;
- The resources needed, etc.
The decisions and final
results depend on the teaching situation, the learners´ level, needs, moods,
interests and the teacher’s understanding of how learners learn best, the time
and resources available.
People may thing that
lesson plans are useless because not always they are used as in the way they
are supposed to be used. However lesson planning is an important thing that
teachers have to do for having a good organization of the time and the
activities that they have to develop in class.
It is important to say that with the uses of a lesson plan teachers are less worried about forgetting the activities they have already planned. If a situation like this happens, the teacher can just take the lesson plan and read what he/ she forgot. Also they are less frightened about failing with the activities he/ she have planned because the lesson plan´s activities have been tested.
It is important to say that with the uses of a lesson plan teachers are less worried about forgetting the activities they have already planned. If a situation like this happens, the teacher can just take the lesson plan and read what he/ she forgot. Also they are less frightened about failing with the activities he/ she have planned because the lesson plan´s activities have been tested.
Before creating a
lesson plan we have to take a lot of things into account for example teachers
have to think if the activities that they have planned are going to work or if
they are going to be difficult for students. Also, teachers have to create
activities taking into consideration all the available materials students have
and the room to develop the activities, so lesson plans are really useful for
teachers
Is lesson planning a need only for NQT or for teachers
with plenty of experience as well?
What
is an NQT?
An NQT is a teacher who has just attained Qualified Teacher Status
(QTS), and is now undertaking an induction program that enables them to be
legally employed as a teacher in a maintained school. They may have gained QTS
in a variety of different ways:
- By taking a Bachelor of Education (BED) undergraduate degree, or a Bachelor of Arts or Science (BA/BSc)
degree with QTS, a degree that incorporates teacher training…….
- By taking a Postgraduate Certificate of Education (PGCE) or by doing School-Centered Initial Teacher Training
(SCITT), where graduates undertake almost all of their QTS training
in a school setting.
- Through an employment program like the Graduate Teacher Program (GTP),
where graduates are employed as an unqualified teacher while working
towards QTS, or Teach First,
where recent graduates spend two years working in a challenging school
before pursuing another career.
Lesson planning is a need for all kind of teachers it
does not matter if the teacher is a NQT (Newly Qualified Teacher) or if the
teacher has plenty of experience in teaching, but as NQTs do not have too much
experience in teaching lesson plans help them to teach better.
Lesson planning offers
a big help for teaching by permitting them to plan the effective
time-management required in each lesson plan that means doing things at the
best time. If you are going to develop something creative, inspiring and unique
you need to have the time - and the energy - to do so. If you need to whack out
four lessons in a hurry, you need a different approach and a different kind of
energy.
Experimented teachers
are able to teach without using lesson plans. All the knowledge they have
achieved from all the years teaching help them to develop whatever kind of
activity without complications.
It can be said that
experimented teachers have the ability to teach without using lesson plans; in
contrast, NQTs have to use them in order to develop correctly all the
activities in classes making an
effective use of time-management.
What was your own experience with lesson planning?
My experience with
lesson planning was really great because I learned how to use and create lesson
plans. At the very beginning creating lesson plans was so difficult for me
since I got confused in differentiating the different activities that it has to
have, I used to write a free practice where a warm-up activity had to be
written.
To be sincere, just
once I did not follow the lesson plan as it was required because my students
where getting bored with the topic I was teaching them, so I invent a game that
was about guessing what I was doing. I mimed them some activities that some
weeks ago we learned for example: Washing my hands, putting things away, etc.,
and I noticed that they got distracted with that activity. Some of them were almost
sleeping, but after that they seemed to be ready again.
I really liked the
experience of using lesson plans in my classes since they helped me a lot not
only to organize my class time activities, but also to notice which kind of
activities I can develop with my students respecting the materials and space
that we had.
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