REFLECTION 3: DESIGNING LESSON PLAN

DESCRIBE FOUR POSSIBLE MISTAKES A TEACHER MIGHT MAKE WHEN DESIGNING A LESSON PLAN?


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I'm back with a new post today. What is lesson plan actually? Why do the teachers have to prepare lesson plan before teaching and learning session? I'm sure these types of questions had crossed your minds before and are wondering what does the lesson plan for. No worries. I'm here today to give some brief explanation about lesson plan.

A lesson plan is the teacher's road map  of what the students need to learn and how it would be done effectively during teaching and learning session. Before planning the lesson plan, the teacher have to identify the learning objectives for the class meetings.Then, design an appropriate learning activities and develop strategies to obtain feedback on student learning. A successful lesson plan should include :

• Objectives for student learning
• Teaching and learning activities
• Strategies to check student's understanding 

LESSON PLAN STRATEGIES

Back to the question above. There are many mistakes commonly done by the teachers in preparing their lessonplan. Here are the some examples of mistakes that a teacher might make when designing a lesson plan:

1. NOT HAVING A CLEAR OBJECTIVE. Meaning that the teacher give the lesson's objective which does not specify what the student will actually do that can be observed. So, the teachers have to give a clear objective so that the students learning and understanding can be observed.
2. IRRELEVANT LESSON ASSESSMENT. The lesson assessment is disconnected from the behavior indicated in the objective. An assessment in a lesson plan is a simply description of how the teacher determine whether the objective has been accomplished or not. The assessment should be based on the objectives given. Anything else is flawed.
3. PROVIDING AN INEFFECTIVE ACTIVITIES. This means that the teacher have provided or prepared activities which is not really based on the objective. The teacher shouldn't prepare activities that makes the students busy but should contribute in a direct way so that the objectives are accomplished.
4. PLANNING BEFORE GETTING TO KNOW YOUR CLASS. Among the three mistakes mentioned above, this are the main mistake that usually done by the teachers. A teacher should get to know her students first before starting her/his teaching and learning session. This is very important because the teachers are going to teach their students not themselves. Teachers should bare in mind that whatever that they are teaching should  draw their students attention and interest. When this are done, the teaching and learning can be carried out very smoothly.

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