Lesson planning is one of the competencies that is used across the curriculum and it encouraged all teachers to commit their selves prepare it before delivering a lesson. It is evidently known the lesson plan creates flow well teaching and learning since that the most of the activities match the learning objectives ( Richards. J, Renandya.W, 2008 ), thus without it the lesson would never flow well from the beginning to the end.
Recalling back to my training here at KTC, I have learnt different types of lesson plan formats therefore I usually applied them to my teaching approaches during my internship, these include the 5E model, 3Ps and IDAC refer to lesson lesson plan. By applying all of them I found out that they have different formats but they have one main concept which is act as a guide a teacher uses every day to determine what the students will learn, how the lesson will be taught as well as how learning will be evaluated (Stauffer, B. 2019).Therefore it is very important for teachers to know that there is nothing different when using those different lesson plan formats but they have to bear in mind that their plans should involves setting goals, developing activities and determining the materials that will use.
According to my teaching experience I have learnt that having a lesson plan before delivering a lesson is very important as it provide detailed outline or feasible instructions on what topic am I going to focus on as well as teaching resources that I am going to use. From there it helped me to concentrate on the lesson I imparted for the children. Supported by Alice, 2018 she mentioned that lesson planning can help the teacher to be well prepared and be aware of what she/he intends on teaching the students. Therefore having daily lesson plans helps me to know students’ strengths, weaknesses from there it also helps me enable to plan or think of what strategies am I going to solve those weaknesses in our next classes.
Moreover, I have also learnt that it is very important to including engaging learning activities in your plan as it could help students with different learning abilities. For example; according to my social science lecturer, he commented on my lesson plan saying that my learning activities does not cater every students’ need, because it is just a short answer questions where smart students could only attempt and smart students couldn’t, therefore he told me to create different learning activities including the drawing or the sketching of diagrams which are simple and more motivate slow students. (Please refer to the journal). By sticking to that comment in my next class I realized that it really produces a good output of the teaching and learning process it led all students achieved the learning outcomes. Catering for different types of learner supported that Learners have different learning styles and preferences, if you cater only for one type of learner, then the others will fall behind.
Overall it is clear that without the lesson plan teachers could not determine students’ weaknesses and strengths so it should be done daily ahead of teaching delivery so that teachers can know the pace of how far they gone with topics and what student need to improve. It is also understandable that it should be contain different learning activities which can meet all different learners’ ability.
Bibliography
Alice. (2018). 3 REASONS WHY IT IS IMPORTANT TO PLAN LESSONS.the e-learning network.
C. Richards , J., & A. Renandya, W. (2002). METHODOLOGY IN LANGUAGE TEACHING (An Anthology of Current Practice). 3-7
Stauffer, B. (2019). What's a lesson plan? [Blog]. Retrieved 4 November 2021, from https://www.aeseducation.com/blog/what-is-a-lesson-plan.