Planning the lesson

Julie C. Gomez

Most teachers would agree: lesson planning is harder than teaching…

That is because lesson planning is geared for the total development of students. An excellent teacher has his way of taming students to appreciate the lesson. A will prepared lesson plan includes thinking, speaking, engaging and a visible commitment and dedication to values and virtues learned.

In planning a day’s lesson, a teacher should consider three essential standards: content, performance, and learning. The content of the lesson should jive with those standards. Learning resources could be a teacher’s guide, learner’s materials, textbook and those coming from learning resource portals.

A well-structured lesson plan highlights learning objectives and goals for the day, where the teacher sets the purpose for the lesson and will be presenting examples, or show instances for the new lesson followed by the discussion of new concepts and practicing of new skills.

Remember, formative assessment is an important aspect of lesson planning. In formative assessment, a teacher has to stretch the view of the students because there will be finding of practical applications of concepts and skills in daily learning. Generalizations and abstractions about the lesson plus evaluation of learning immediately follow.

Lastly, excellent lesson planning calls for reflection on formative assessment, additional activities for remediation, understanding of the lesson, assessment of strategies, reaction of school heads and effective use of innovations.

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The author is Teacher I at Del Rosario Integrated School