Lesson
Planning - different types of plan
Different
teachers plan in different ways, using everything from a
detailed planning document on the one hand, to just ideas
in their heads as they rush down the corridor towards their
classroom on the other. It is quite possible to find reasons
for the advantages for both of these extremes, as it is
for the varied types of planning of a more or less formal
kind which different teachers engage in.
Perhaps
the important thing in planning is for teachers to have
a clear idea of what they hope their students will get out
of a lesson, whatever the starting point is for the class
they end up teaching. The type of plan they put together
may be less important than the thinking that generates it.
Lessons
don't stand in isolation, of course. They are usually part
of a sequence of classroom periods, so good planners (however
formal or informal they are about it) look at a lesson's
place in a sequence as part of the planning process. Some
methodologists talk about threads (in terms of activities)
which run through a series of lessons, and which unite them.
The
Planning Development Pack
looks at different kinds of plan and discusses the idea
of planning 'threads' in some detail. Read on to discover
what to do with plans.
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