Importance of Lesson Plan

Why have a lesson plan after decades of teaching experience?

1. IMPORTANCE OF LESSON PLAN ( Why have a Lesson Plan after decades of teaching experience) Albert Komla Pongo Ghana National College – Cape Coast

2. IS LESSON PLAN STILL IMPORTANT (Having practice effective teaching for over a decade) Yes! Lesson plan is important throughout the service of a teacher. Every class or generation of students offer different experience to the teacher. Lesson plan is important for A newly trained teacher who could be faced with varied unpredictable situation. Teachers and persons who are participating in some kind of training program especially that much includes observation. Teachers who want to reduce over reliance on textbooks and to adapt situations.

3. WHAT IS A LESSON PLAN A lesson plan is a guide which helps execute a mission that is to be accomplished in the classroom with the children. A lesson plan can also be defined as a creative process which provides a frame work for purposeful learning

4. WHY IS LESSON PLAN IMPORTANT Lesson plan comfortably alligns classroom instruction with curriculum goals and objectives. Lesson plan shapes how and what students. This helps influence positive attitudes of students towards learning . Learning does not create cumbersome and clumsy atmosphere. Lesson plan serves as a checklist that guides teachers to be systematic in the delivery of their lessons. Teachers know what to do next at every point of delivery. Lesson are orderly presented. Lesson plan serves as a historical document of what the teacher did in class. The teacher is able to look back, reorganize and update his lesson future usage. The teacher is able to arrest challenges during the lesson and interventions that are applied are well noted. This becomes a guide to the teacher and others who find themselves in like situations

5. WHY IS LESSON PLAN IMPORTANT Lesson plan prevents the over reliance on text books as a direct material for teaching some books are written in such a way that they serve as guide to teachers. This books are written using the syllabus as guide. Teachers are tempted to ignore initiating their own lesson plan. These teachers become limited since no textbook provides solution to all the specific needs in a lesson for the teacher and students. This shows that even in the availability of good course material, the teacher still needs a lesson plan. Lesson plan is good for the experience teacher even though he has excellent, fluent set of classroom management skills and activity routines. With all these a minimum and 90% classroom management. Every good lesson needs a plan

6. WHY IS LESSON PLAN IMPORTANT Lesson plan gives the auxiliary teacher the details of what he needs in a lesson. He is able to comfortably stand in for the class teacher. A good lesson plan minimizes the negative effect of learning on the children when there is swapping of teachers. If every good game deserves a plan to win, then every teacher needs a good plan to be highly successful. The best football coaches still draw their plan for every match.

7. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A TEACHER HAS NO LESSON PLAN There is over reliance on textbooks. Lesson delivery is not always smooth. There is no smooth transition when another teacher takes over the class. Course materials are underutilized.

8. REFERENCES Sakamoto B. 2012 How important is lesson planning ITDI Bloy Thornburg S 2012 How important is lesson planning