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9 Crucial Reasons Why Teachers Need a Lesson Plan

To have a successful lesson, you have to plan it carefully. Lesson planning is at the heart of being an effective teacher. It is so clear for you a lesson plan is a step-by-step guide which helps teachers in maintaining a standard teaching pattern and does not let the class deviate from the topic. It also provides teachers with learning objectives, quality questions, supplies, and activities. What do you think how important is a lesson plan? Some following elements will show us the importance of a lesson plan in teaching English:
1. Prove of Teacher’s Creativity
Lesson plan demonstrates the creativity and enthusiasm of the teacher. The lesson plan is a teacher’s indispensable material or maybe say that is a vital weapon of a teacher when teaching an English class.
2. Teach with Higher Level of Confidence.
When following a carefully prepared lesson plan, the teacher will teach better, more confident and smoothly, bring much effective in the classes. Materials created by the teacher are often more interesting, more relevant and a welcome change than the course books.
3. Achieve Goals
The lesson plan is built to fit the goals of an English class. It helps to achieve specific learning results corresponding to the initial level of students. The content of a lesson plan will answer the questions “Whom will I teach?”, “What’s the age of level I will teach?”, “What will I teach?”, “How can communicate between teacher and students?"
4. Record Your Teaching
The lesson plan is an archival document which systematically recording what the teacher has taught in a whole course. Recording class content will also be used for covering. Preparing a lesson plan can be an additional document for students if the teacher is absent from the classroom on certain days.
5. Show Teaching Path
A lesson plan is created a logical sequence, to show a path of teaching and learning. It helps the teacher can change flexibly in the teaching process.
6. Map of Goals
Lesson plan shows the goals that both teachers and students aim for. The teacher can know whether the class has been successful or needs further improvement.
7. Structure
The lesson plan has the basic platform structures including Engage, Study, Activate to help teacher easily allocate the number of instructions in every lesson. It indicates which parts need to be tailored to each class. For example, teaching kids (under 5 years old) needs many exciting activities, and it is a combination of static and dynamic activities for adults.
8. Classroom Management
A clear lesson plan will help teachers arrange effective teaching time and class management. A great lesson plan also helps teachers use it for new classes in the future. Therefore, the investment in writing a quality lesson plan is essential and useful for teachers. When a plan is ready, the teacher can focus on its implementation and helps the students to maintain focus.
9. Contents of the Lesson
Lesson plan shown to the contents include Learner objectives, personal aims, language point, teaching aids, anticipated lesson, tuning for each part of the lesson, interaction between teacher to student, student to student or individuals), class level, number of student. A lesson plan is a lesson “project” written down on paper. It is only a “project” because a lot of unpredictable events occur in the classroom. It is also a dreaded part of instruction that most teachers detest. It nevertheless provides a guide for managing the learning environment. As one of the teacher’s roles is that of designer and implementer of instruction, the preparation of lesson plan will ensure the organization of the English lesson according to some criteria. Regardless of the format, all teachers need to make wise decisions about the strategies and methods they will employ to help students move systematically toward learner goals. The more organized a teacher is, the more effective the teaching, and thus the learning, is. Writing daily lesson plans is a large part of being organized.
Goals Teachers need to have a precise notion of educational goals / objectives / standards / competences
Content is chosen according to the level and needs of the learners. It must be interesting and appealing to them.
Instructional procedure
The effective teacher also needs to develop a plan to provide direction toward the attainment of the selected objectives. Teachers must decide how to sequence the teaching items according to the methodology and approach they opted for. Sequencing may be from easy to difficult, from known to unknown, from familiar to unfamiliar
Timing
The effective teacher certainly controls the way time is used. Effective teachers systematically and carefully plan for productive use of instructional time.
Evaluation procedure
There should be some kind of feedback tasks to highlight lesson deficiencies. Finally, even teachers who develop highly structured and detailed plans rarely strictly stick to them. Such rigidity would probable impede, rather than help, the teaching-learning process. The elements of your lesson plan should be thought of as guiding principles to be applied as aids, but not blueprints, to systematic instruction. Precise preparation must allow for flexible delivery. During actual classroom interaction, the instructor needs to make adaptations and to add artistry to each lesson plan and classroom delivery.²⁶