Lesson
Planning - what to do with plans!
In
some situations (such as practical examinations or work
scheme reviews) teachers either want or are required to
provide detailed plans of action for forthcoming classes.
It is important, therefore, to think of what should go into
such plans in order to describe exactly what the lessons
is intended to achieve.
A
good formal plan will say what the teacher's aims are, and
detail the procedures which will be followed, together with
giving some insight into what might go wrong and how the
teacher will deal with that.
How,
then, should teachers deal with plans once they have taken
them into the classroom? Are they to be slavishly followed
whatever happens, or are there classroom circumstances which
would cause any sensible teacher to deviate from the script
they have prepared.
But
of course that's just the point, isn't it! Plans are not
scripts. It is better to see them as 'proposals for action'
which teachers will follow if appropriate, but which they
may well modify in the light of actually classroom reality.
The
Planning Development Pack also looks at the contents of
a formal plan and how such a plan might be used (and/or
improved). Join the live online session to discus these
and other issues.
Jeremy
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the Planning Development Pack.
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