PLANNING

PLANNING

1. What a Lesson Plan is?

   • The process allows teachers to evaluate their own knowledge with regards to the content to be taught
   • A teacher with a plan is a more confident teacher
     • It will be clear on what needs to be done, how, and when.
   • It can save time later.
     • If someone wants to know what was done, the teacher only has to refer to that day’s lesson plan.
       • Teachers New jobs may be asked to submit lesson plans as part of their job application so they can get an idea of their organizational skills and teaching style.

2. The importance

   • The teacher needs to identify his or her aims for the lesson.
     • It gives the teacher a chance to predict possible problems in the class and think about it,
   • Teachers need to know what it is they hope to achieve in the class
   • What it is they want the students to be able to do at the end of the lesson
   • It's a sign of professionalism.
     • It's a way to help gain the respect of your students.

3. Critical moments of teaching practice

   • Teaching as Reflective Practice
     • Reflection-in-action is, as van Manen states, difficult to attain, even under the most ideal of teaching situations.
     • Van Manen sees this phenomenon as part of an ongoing dialogue where the teacher carries on a kind of inner dialogue with the self as one goes about the act of teaching,
   • What it is?
     • It's something which we interpret as a problem or a challenge in a certain context
     • It's defined by different scholars in different ways.
   • Why Analyze?
     • Analysis of critical incidents helps teachers know more about how they teach
     • to identify those practices which are not working well.
   • How to Analyze?
     • It's to examine and understand the critical incident itself.
     • There are two stages to understanding a critical incident:
       • Stage 1: to describe the incident
       • Stage 2: to explain its meaning