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4 Lect Preparation and Planning
4 Lect Preparation and Planning
4 Lect Preparation and Planning
Everyone loves a good video. Video can be a great way to increase interest or
teach a simple concept before a lesson. One finds it better by asking students to
watch and wonder about something familiar to the concept being taught. It
Another way to get your students wondering about a topic is to show them
objects related to the content. Ready to do some creative. Inspire them with
sensory objects. Getting ready to read a book? Show them objects from the
book and ask them to make connections, predictions, or ask questions. You
could bring in actual objects for students to touch and smell, or simply show a
curious.
Find out what your students already know or think about a topic with a
question. There are so many ways to do this: ask the whole class, encourage
small group discussions, write it on the board and ask students to do a quick
which method you try, questions are a great way to get your students thinking.
1. This depends on the time a lesson starts such as afternoon, break etc. For this
strategy, you start your lesson with a question, but the twist is that you get
everyone on their feet to answer it. Students are able to sit down when they
share their answer with the class. Take two minutes to watch this fun idea and
Make learning from mistakes a natural part of your daily lessons. Next time
you're thinking of starting off your lesson with an idea, consider what could be
learned by sharing student work that's not quite perfect. Take a look a brief on
Presentation: This is the body of the lesson. Create a condition to enable students to
learn the new content step by step. You should state the principles of teaching (method)
you are going to employ. During this step you should give your learners activity covered in
the previous lesson so as to connect with the new knowledge.
More 2-3 steps can be developed depending on the content and time available. Each step
should be developed with a purpose of exhausting the topic you are dealing with.
Chronological order must be followed in your presentation e. g., activities
Conclusion: You use this step to round off your lesson. The conclusion depends on the
nature of the subject matter. It is an opportunity for a teacher and the students to pull
together some loose ends and put the material covered in the lesson into a capsule. It may
take the form of briefly going through the points of the lesson again with the intention of
summarizing it, drawing out the major points, correcting some mistakes made by
students. This is normally done orally.
Chalk board plan
Every lesson must have a chalk board plan. It entails two things: How you as a teacher
plan to arrange your work on the chalk board and what you plan to write on it. The board
can be divided into small manageable portions. However this depends on how wide it is.
Homework: These may be in form of a written exercise or verbal statement. They are
used as links between lessons.
Evaluation: This provides the teacher with an opportunity to appraise or evaluate the
outcome of the presentation. The teacher notes how well students worked, the quality of
activities used in the lesson, the flow of the lesson. A self -evaluation might include the
following:
Did I state the objectives properly?
Did I allocate time correctly?
Did I arouse and capture the interests of the learners?
Did I succeed in getting maximum attention class participation?
Did I use learning aids effectively?
If I were to teach the lesson again in what ways would I change it?
- Guiding questions
- Qn. a) What challenges would you encounter as you carry out the lesson?
- b) How important is insight learning to a learner?
- c) Unless students learn a teacher has not taught.” To what extent is this
- statement true?
- d) With the current 21st century curriculum explain the performance ofa
- teacher in the classroom environment
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