What is a Lesson Plan?

Teachers have so many responsibilities, not just in the classroom but at home or in their personal lives. One of a teachers main responsibilities is making sure that her children are learning what their supposed to be learning. They do this in many ways such as making notes on good ideas or getting advice from other teachers and a great way that helps teachers are lesson plans. Lesson plans are a guide that lead the teacher step by step in what she should do in the day. Some teachers get them off of the internet, some make it up as they go and others do it themselves. Lesson plans are a great tool because they help you keep organized and it can also re-leave stress. Not being organized is a very big stress point in our society because it can make you a wee bit crazy. By having an organized lesson plan the teacher can go step by step through all the goals for the day without having to be thinking “what should I do next”? Making the lesson plan is always much more stressful and harder to do than actually carring out the lesson. When a teacher starts her lesson plan she should go slowly and think of all her subjects. Some teachers only teach one subject such as in high school, college, or university. Elementary and middle school teachers, however, teach all of the main general subjects therefore lesson plans are used by them most since they have more material to get across. The more details you put in the lesson plan the better the teacher will work through the lesson. Details are so important because its very easy to wright “learn ABC’s”, when in fact you should be more detailed and write something like “Learn ABC’s with song, video, shapes and get children to come up with their own words that start with each letter”. Now if you start to think about it, a teacher that has been teaching for 20 years knows exactly and how to teach the material compared to a beginning teacher that might be nervous or have little knowledge about how important using your time is. Time is crucial when your teaching and usually most teachers don’t get through all the material they initially wanted to get through because they might have spent too much time on one topic so lesson plans, once again, can be very helpful when reffering to time management. The teacher can also brake down the lesson plan into different scenarios such as group work, for the whole class, independent work or sharing. It’s good to include this into the lesson plan because just as adults get bored, they might get bored of learning together and might want to practice on their own or with a partner. In conclusion, I recommend all teachers to do lesson plans because although it’s a very tedious task, it is one of the best weapons a teacher holds.