PRINCIPLES OF LESSON PLANNING

Session Outline
What is a Lesson Plan Basic Ingredients of a lesson plan Major principles of lesson planning Significance of lesson planning Strong and weak objectives Unit Planning activity Allocation of Topics Reflections

What is a Lesson Plan

A Lesson Plan describes how learning is to be organized and facilitated in the classroom and documents specific plans for teaching.

Basic Ingredients:
Lesson Objectives Resources and activities Introduction of the lesson Lesson Development Conclusion Students Assessment Teachers Reflection

Major Principles
Making students responsible for their learning Knowledge, skills and attitude Experiential Learning objectives Easy to difficult Known to unknown

Major Principles
Ongoing Assessment Opportunity for reflection for students and teacher Time Management Effective use of resources particularly students Attitude, skills and knowledge

Significance of Lesson Planning

LPs stimulate teachers to consider more deeply what can and should be accomplished in a class LPs encourage the teacher to think more deeply on the specific needs of each student in the class LPs invite teachers to be innovative, to consider a variety of approaches, or try new things that might get better results

Significance of Lesson Planning

LPs help teachers be prepared, feel more confident, and deal better with surprises LPs deepen the teacher's own knowledge and skills LPs can be shared.

Weak and Strong Learning Objectives

WEAK LEARNING OBJECTIVES STRONG LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Students will... learn how to describe symptoms for illnesses. know the names of the planets in our solar system. be able to recognize the fifty states in the United States and their capitals. become familiar with calling in sick at work.

Students will be able to... identify at least two basic symptoms for three common illnesses with 100% accuracy. write the names of the planets in our solar system with 80% accuracy. state the names of the New England states and rank them by size with 100% accuracy. orally differentiate between appropriate and inappropriate reasons for calling in sick and give at least one example of each.

Sharing the Format of Unit/Lesson Plans

Allocations for Unit Planning

Group Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Grade 6 6 5 Details Theme Topic : Theme Topic : Theme Topic :

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Group 5 Group 6

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Reflections
There are no fixed formats for lesson plans One should keep in mind the principles of lesson planning and students profile in mind The Golden Rule of lesson planning is to make students responsible for their learning Do not be slave of a lesson plan completely However, the habit of developing lesson plan bestows a teacher a greater degree of command on what happens in the class