Lesson
Planning - does it make lessons any better?
Most
teachers wouldn't dream of going into class without having
planned what they were going to do. Or
would they? The fact is that not everyone believes that
detailed lesson planning is a good idea, even though planning
is a major component on most teachers' courses, and a detailed
lesson plan is a requirement for practical teaching exams.
Planning,
according to one view, shows that you have thought about
what you are going to teach, and prepared for the eventualities
you might encounter. It shows students that you are conscientious,
and allows you to make conscious links between classes.
However,
according to different voices, planning means that you think
you can predict how your students are going to feel tomorrow
(which you can't). On the contrary, the job of the teacher
is to react to what he or she finds rather than organise
everything in advance - since to do so makes teaching and
learning very uncreative.
The
Planning Development Pack
provides a dramatic exchange of such views, which will also
be discussed in the live online chat
with Jeremy Harmer.
If
planning is a good idea what different kinds of plan are
there, and what should teachers do with plans once they
take them into class? Click here
to find out more.
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