10. TEACHERS DO INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN WORK MORE CAREFULLY

TEACHERS DO INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN WORK MORE CAREFULLY

In the virtual book (pg. 76-79) we can find th importance of lesson planning; it is a vital component of the teaching-learning process. Proper classroom planning will keep teachers organized and on track while teachings, thus allowing them to teach more, help students reach objectives more easily and manage less. The better prepared the teacher is, the more likely she/he will be able to handle whatever unexpectedly happens in the lesson.

First of all, a planned lesson is just better. Not all planned lessons are fabulous and not all unplanned lessons are a disaster, but even a bad lesson will be less bad planned, and even a great lesson can be greater with a plan. If you are good at teaching unplanned lessons, you will be even better at teaching with a plan.

Although lesson plans constitute a major part of being a teacher, they are dreaded and sometimes their importance underestimated by some teachers. Some teachers even advance the unpredictability of some events in the classroom to discredit any attempt to provide any strict planning of what occurs in the classroom. Although this might be true, it should be noted that a lesson plan is a project of a lesson. It’s not (and cannot) be a description of what will exactly happen during lesson delivery. It provides, however, a guide for managing the classroom environment and the learning process.

In this case a popular and well known procedure to develop a lesson plan is ESA - Engage - Study – Activate. When thinking about an English lesson it is useful therefore to keep the following three elements in mind. Engage, it means getting the students interested in the class. Engaging students is important for the learning process. Study, every lesson usually needs to have some kind of language focus. The study element of a lesson could be a focus on any aspect of the language, such as grammar or vocabulary and pronunciation. A study stage could also cover revision and extension of previously taught material. Activate, it is useful because teachers can tell students about the language is not really enough to help them learn it. For students to develop their use of English they need to have a chance to produce it. In an activate stage the students are given tasks which require them to use not only the language they are studying that day, but also other language that they have learnt.

REFERENCES FOR ADITTIONAL INFORMATION:

• YouTube,. (2015) Lesson Plan With Examples. Retrieved 30 April 2015, from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdFXmQS6sBU

• Kieran Egan,. (1985)Teaching as Story‐telling: A Non‐mechanistic Approach to Planning Teaching . Retrieved 30 April 2015, from:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0022027850170405?journalCode=tcus20
• Georgia,. (2012) The Importance of lesson Planning.  Retrieved 30 April 2015, from:https://teachandlearnwithgeorgia.wordpress.com/2012/07/26/the-importance-of-lesson-planning/