Friday, August 28, 2009

What is a lesson plan


What is a lesson plan?



A lesson plan is a tool that may be used to give guidance or an agenda that will clarify and identify what will occur and the focus it should include elements of knowledge, comprehension, application, thought and evaluation. It will help define the teacher role and the student role. It should help with keeping everyone on track with given expectations and goals. It will also help with the planning and how one intends of developing a level of learning. It helps an individual to select a topic for discussion in the form of a title. It should also have requirements and standards to follow. The title should be clear and to the point. It should be constructive with relative keys and stated outcome. It should include a set time frame for when the assignment will be due. By doing this it will create accountability. A lesson plan will help an individual to choose what type of materials will be used to enhance the topic being explored. It will help evaluate the different methods that can be used. It also helps an individual to create an objective and bring about achievement. It will aide the teacher to give input and for the students to show learning skills. This will help the teacher to give input to help direct the student in understanding. It should reflect on the individuals learning and understanding of the topic. This type of learning can also be hands on or this can be done in the form of problem solving techniques. It should bring about discussions and questions on the topic given. This will show what knowledge the individual have about the topic. By doing this one encourage learning and one can know what are the preconceived information and how it will help with the based information. It will also help in realizing what the levels of understanding and weakness are. A lesson plan should also assist in guided practice. If an individual needs to be pushed and when to be push beyond the level that individual is at. This will help in the learning approach. This can be done on an individual level or a group level. It also will help with creating an environment for learning. And at the end it should have an evaluation such as a test to demonstrate knowledge learned. All of this should be done with relation to the text such as a textbook.

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