Lesson planning is a special skill that is learned in much the same way as other skills. It is one thing to take a ready-made lesson plans and adapt to our needs. It is another thing to have the skill to develop our own lesson plans. Acquiring this skill is far more valuable than being able to use lesson plans developed by others. It takes thinking (thinking more about student engagement & student learning and less on the content delivery) and practice to hone this skill.
Think of lesson plan as a way of effective communication. Lesson plans help teachers to organize content, materials and methods of delivery. Like other skills, we get better by thinking of ways to improve our teaching and lesson planning based on feedback from the students and other teachers.
Effective lesson plans communicate, students are engaged and they learn.
Step 1: Think of what the students need to learn, what they must be able to do after the lesson.
Step 2: Think of what the students already learnt, how to use their prior knowledge and lead them to the new topic.
Step 3: Think of the methods to be used to engage the student and assist them to learn the new topic
Step 4: Think of at least one way to evaluate the learning outcomes of the students.
