NOTES FOR LESSON PLANNING

1. Though it is not always necessary to have three (3) lesson plan objectives, for this task,
be sure to write three (3). One objective must be in the cognitive domain and the other
two (2) in the affective and psychomotor domains respectively. The sequence must
follow the C-A-P (cognitive, affective, and psychomotor) order.
2. There are a lot of verbs that you can use in your statement of objectives. You may look
for them in the WEB. Just make sure to choose the right and the most appropriate ones
for your activities.
3. The affective objective must be measurable, meaning, you also need to indicate the kind
of activity (or the HOW) that the learners will go through for that objective to be
achieved.
*Ex. incorrect affective objective: appreciate the biodiversity
*How can they appreciate biodiversity?
*Ex. correct affective objective: appreciate biodiversity through a 2-minute video clip
4. Make sure that the stated objectives are reflected in the activities that you integrate in
your lesson plan.
5. INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS do not include laptop, projectors, or speakers, as
these are EQUIPMENT. INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS, in this context, are those
that contain the content of the lesson, or the knowledge or information that you want to
be delivered to your learners.
6. The CLASSROOM ROUTINES will depend on the teacher. Some teachers start the
class with a prayer, while others do not. Some asks for a recap, while others do not.
7. Also, in the sample, the routines are enumerated, but they may also be stated normally.
*Ex. The teacher will ask the students to stand and request someone to lead the prayer...
8. The PRESENTATION OF THE LESSON part tells us how the teacher will introduce
the subject matter to the learners.
9. The activity for MOTIVATION should be connected to your lesson. It must not be
anything completely unrelated to what you are about to discuss. An example of an
irrelevant motivational activity is asking the learners to stand and dance Bboom bboom or
My Toes, My Knees, My Shoulder, My Head when your lesson is about mitosis and
meiosis. Remember that your motivational activity is something that will catch the
attention of your students, something that will really make them look forward to the
lesson.
10. STATEMENT OF OBJECTIVES, in some lesson plans, is not included, however,
based on teaching and learning principles, it is better if students are informed of the
lesson objectives, as this as a way for students to establish ownership of these objectives.
Furthermore, this allows them to know precisely what is/are expected of them, making it
more possible for them to achieve these.
11. The teacher may simply tell (explicitly) the learners about these objectives, have them
make guesses, or et cetera. It will just depend on the teacher’s strategy.
12. In the DEVELOPMENT OF THE LESSON section, the teacher states how the lesson
content will be delivered to the learners. Commonly, this is the part where the teacher
discusses the topic, but if you want your students to be more engaged, you may give them
 an activity or a task that they can work on while the subject matter is being discussed.
Here, the students are still assisted by the teacher, in other words, there is still teacher
intervention, because in this part, the learners are still in the process of understanding the
lesson and/or learning the skills they need to master.
13. The ENRICHMENT ACTIVITY is an activity or task that the teacher gives to the
learners to deepen their understanding of the lesson or further enhance the skills they
learned from the previous part.
14. VALUING may be substituted with GENERALIZATION or ABSTRACTION. Use
VALUING if your concluding activity is leaning on the affective side (like asking your
students if they enjoyed a story or not) and use either one of the two if it is more
cognitive or psychomotor-centered (ex. asking the students to summarize the lesson).
15. ASSESSMENT is your evaluation activity. This may be a traditional, authentic, or
performance-based assessment. The assessment activity will depend on the lesson
objective/s.
16. The ASSIGNMENT states what you want your students to do as an extension of the
current lesson or a preparation for the next.
17. Each part of the lesson plan, except for ASSIGNMENT, may be in present (in this
sample, in present tense) or future tense. ASSIGNMENT can only be stated in future
tense as the assignment is worked on by students, not in the present, but in the future.
18. The duration of each part of the lesson does not have to be indicated. Just make sure that
your plan is good for a 1-hour lesson, this being said, while writing your lesson plan,
think realistically.