My lecturer entered the classroom and shoot us questions such as, Do you know what is a lesson plan? Have you ever seen a lesson plan? Have any one of you worked in a kindergarten and you are required to do a lesson plan? Some of us answered yes and some said no.
Then the lecturer asked us, What do you think a lesson plan should content? All of the students including me got excited by telling her many elements that we know such as learning outcomes, reflection, introduction, teaching methods, conclusion, topic, subject, activities, performance, achievement and so on.
The lecturer then asked us to form 11 groups and create our own lesson plan. All of us were busy planning the lesson plan while the lecturer was walking around and monitoring our work. The lesson plans have to be posted in the UNIEC. Once all of us have done the submission, the lecturer open the lesson plan that have been send by each group and started questioning them for the reasons they used those elements.
My group was questioned about how to evaluate the students whether they are the beginners, intermediate or expert level since we haven't enter the classroom yet. At first we were mumbling but somehow we manage to answer the question by saying that teachers need to assume their students level before they enter the classroom so that they know how to deliver their lesson and knowledge to their students. At the end all the groups have helped each other as all of them could the lecturer's questions.
Once all the lesson plans have been presented, the lecturer shoot again with questions by asking among the 11 lesson plans, which lesson plan do we thought the better or the best. Some were saying that their lesson plan are better than others and some tend to think that others lesson plan are better than theirs. Then the discussion goes on until the lecturer was satisfied with all our answers.
As a summary, what I exactly learned today was what is a lesson plan, what are the elements that should be in a lesson plan according to the subject and how many types of lesson plans are there. As for me, I prefer a lesson plan which is simple, direct forward, clear and easiest for all the teachers to do because as we know nowadays teachers are burden with all of work especially the administration work. The lecturer explained that it is better for all of us to do more detail lesson plan during our practicum because it somehow will reveal what kind of teaches are we and help we to be more organized. She continued that once we are graduated, its up to us how we want to the lesson plan. Therefore, the lesson plan is important for a teacher as it acts as a guideline to make sure that the teachers and on track.
True Darseni, and sometimes if we are short of ideas on how we want to conduct a class activities, the lesson plan actually would give us a hand.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you on having a simple and direct lesson plan, it does lessened our work load as a teacher but sometimes our upper head or so called as senior teachers would look at us as lazy bumps, won't they? So maybe in the future we should start our lesson plans in details and after when we are experience enough, only then we go for a shorter way :P
Its true what you are saying Jasmine but I think that lesson plan is just a guideline for the teachers to be on track and finish up their teaching on time to ensure that they have covered all the topics before the final exam. I'm sure that the senior teachers also prefer a simple and direct lesson plan because it makes their life easier and it is easier for them to refer whenever they want. It even make it easier for the supervisor to check the lesson plan as everything is direct and clear. Doesn't mean that teachers who prepare more detailed lesson plan can teach better than teachers who prepare simple and direct lesson plan. All that matter is how effective a teacher can deliver the knowledge to the students.
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