Lesson plan works as a managerial guide in that it allows the teachers to organize the lecture before they actually deliver it in the real classroom setting. It helps them keep track of their own and student’s progress and allows the lecture to be delivered in a systematic manner.
I initially had the concept that lesson planning is one of the easiest parts of the entire teaching process. I believed this until we too had to design lesson plans for a class activity. Planning a lesson requires a lot of mental processing where one has to think of the ways how the intended lesson will be fruitful for the learners, how the class time can be utilized in the most efficient manner and what activities will be part of the lesson.
The activity involved designing lesson plan using the technology integration matrix to see how technology can be seamlessly blended with the classroom instruction. The technology integration matrix describes five levels of technology integration i.e. entry, adoption, adaptation, infusion, and transformation. After developing the lesson plan, the next step was to implement the lesson plan in a real classroom setting to see and experience the dynamics of the real classroom.
The school that our group acquired permission from was NUST Creative Learning School. The school assigned us third grade’s science topic “How forces can stop moving things-Friction.”
Although the topic seemed simple a lot of work and effort was required to plan the instruction for the actual classroom setting. The challenging part of developing the lesson plan was deciding on the activities that would equally be informative and engaging for students. This experience also taught me that a lesson plan cannot be designed in a single go or just before starting the lecture. A lesson plan once designed, should be continuously revised to make sure that it is complete in all aspects ranging from stating the learning outcomes to the student’s success criteria.