1.1 Lesson Planning

Lesson Planning refers to the plan made daily by teachers to guide their teaching in an orderly and organized way so the teaching and learning experience is meaningful. A successful lesson plan addresses and integrates three key component components: learning objectives, learning activities, and assessment to check for student understanding ("Lesson Planning", 2020). These components will be used as measuring tools for students understanding of learning objectives based on lesson contents.

 As an educator, I believe that teachers should prepare and provide a detailed outline plan before entering the classroom or prior to conducting their lesson. There are many types of lesson plans that teachers could use in their teaching such as general lesson plans which are known as, IDAC (Introduction, Development, Application, and Conclusion), and 5 Es which are used mostly in science lessons (Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, and Evaluate), 3 Ps (Presentation, Practice, and Production), and so on. Every lesson plan should be evaluated at the end of each lesson, so it shows what are the strengths achieved, weaknesses, and interventions that need to be considered in the next plan.  

As a Language and Math teacher, I applied 2 types of SMART lesson plans in my teachings which are, IDAC and 3 P’s because they are mostly applicable to the subjects that I taught. As shown in my lesson plans, they were specific, measurable, realistic, and time-bound. A SMART lesson plan allows you to clarify your ideas, focus your efforts, use your time wisely, and increase the changes of what you set out to achieve (Khan, 2019).

 For my goals to be achieved I would prepare a variety of activities that I think that they are mostly effective for catering to diverse intellectual abilities. My lessons always begin with recapitulation activities which allow students to recall what they learned before. These could either be carried out in groups or individually such as open-ended questions, tests/quizzes, KWL chart, brainstorming, recall and tell, etc. They are then followed by warmer activities to help learners get a basic understanding of the new lesson content. My warmer activities were based on testing students' understanding or more like checking prior knowledge. I used interactive activities such as round group discussion and presentation, interesting warmers, and etc. to build up curiosity and interest in the lesson. From there, I would add to students understanding by explaining the main focus to them in different ways such as, by using notes, video clips, or other forms of communication to elaborate on the topic/lesson. Each part of my lesson has a time limit which I always stick to, so I could finish precisely within 50 minutes (refer to lesson plans).

 I would make sure that students achieved the lesson content by consolidating their understanding during the conclusion domain through, peer assessment,, self-assessment (marking their own work with rubrics), sharing, 321 activities (3 things they learned, 2 examples, and 1 question), asking questions, and so forth.

 Doing those allowed me to come up with a great evaluation for my lesson in knowing what is achieved and what is not and also identifying students’ weaknesses and strengths. From there, I know what needs to be improved, why and how it should be improved, and which students need crucial support. Skipping evaluation can lead to repeating the same mistakes over and over again which can cause poor development in students' progress (Lesson Plan Self-Reflections and Evaluation, 2020).

 Therefore, lesson planning is crucial for teachers to provide for their daily lessons as it allows them to evaluate what has been done in the lesson, especially students' learning at a moment. In addition, the learning process can be organized, specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and timely just by providing a detailed and meaningful lesson plan.

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Lesson Planning. (2020). Retrieved from https://cte.smu.edu.sg/approach-teaching/integrated-design/lesson-planning.