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Discussion - Lesson Planning

A lesson plan is a teacher's roadmap that outlines what students need to learn and how it will be taught effectively. It allows teachers to enter the classroom confidently and maximize meaningful learning. While a teacher's role is to facilitate learning rather than teach directly, careful lesson planning is important as it involves intentional efforts to develop logical learning activities that promote cognitive development. Research shows effective teachers excel at instructional planning and considering multiple classroom aspects, from engagement strategies to student reactions. Lesson planning directly impacts student learning and is an important part of a teacher's job, so understanding how to improve the planning process can help both teachers and administrators.

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Discussion - Lesson Planning

A lesson plan is a teacher's roadmap that outlines what students need to learn and how it will be taught effectively. It allows teachers to enter the classroom confidently and maximize meaningful learning. While a teacher's role is to facilitate learning rather than teach directly, careful lesson planning is important as it involves intentional efforts to develop logical learning activities that promote cognitive development. Research shows effective teachers excel at instructional planning and considering multiple classroom aspects, from engagement strategies to student reactions. Lesson planning directly impacts student learning and is an important part of a teacher's job, so understanding how to improve the planning process can help both teachers and administrators.

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DISCUSSION – LESSON PLANNING

A lesson plan is the instructor’s road map of what students need to learn and how it will
be done effectively during the class time. Then, you can design appropriate learning activities
and develop strategies to obtain feedback on student learning. Having a carefully constructed
lesson plan for each 3-hour lesson allows you to enter the classroom with more confidence and
maximizes your chance of having a meaningful learning experience with your students.

It can be argued that a teacher’s role is not to teach but to arrange for learning (Danielson,
2007). The importance in lesson planning is evident in the many decisions a teacher must make
in order to prepare students for the learning experience. Planning involves intentional efforts of
the teacher to develop that lesson planning which involves a conscious effort by teachers to
develop a logical system of activities that promote the development of students’ cognitive
structures”. A study by Zahorik, Halbach, Ehrle, & Molnar (2003) determined that effective
teachers excel at instructional orientation, which deals with the type of content taught and how it
is taught. The study highlighted the need for effective teachers to be effective planners as well.
Lesson planning is the cognitive process of thinking about what will happen in the classroom
during a lesson (Jalongo, Reig, & Helterbran, 2007). This involves the consideration of multiple
aspects of the classroom, ranging from methods to engage the students in the material to the
different ways students may react.

Lesson Planning has shown that thinking and planning play a vital role in classroom
teaching; Teachers plan in a rich variety of ways have real connections in the classroom”; that
teachers “make planning decisions frequently during interactive teaching”; that teacher theories
and belief systems “influence their perceptions, plans, and actions” (Clark & Peterson, 1986,
p.292). Lesson planning is an important aspect of a teacher’s job that directly impacts what and
how students learn the necessary material; therefore, how teachers plan is very important.

In addition, Smith (1977) states that “teacher planning is important for educational
research and policy in that: 1.) planning decisions and activities are a major factor affecting the
quality, quantity, and nature of classroom instruction, 2.) the effects of planning decisions and
activities upon instruction can be assessed, and 3.) the cost of making alterations and adjustments
to planning decisions is minimal and thus planning represents a potentially powerful tool for the
improvement of instruction”.

Although there is a proof about teacher effectiveness, in general, and instructional


planning, more specifically, there still remains lack of clarity, direct evidence regarding teachers’
lesson planning. Understanding the lesson planning process, and how to intervene in the process
to improve instruction, is helpful for both teachers and administrators. This can be done through
observation of instruction and also through foreseeing or planning phase. It is very vital to
understand the connection between the planning process and effective instruction; until this
connection is understood, administrators and supervisors cannot help teachers do effective
planning. There also is concern in the field as it is not really known how to differentiate good
and bad plans, or how these plans play out in the classroom, so principals cannot use only the
lesson plan to effectively monitor instruction.

References:
Jessica Miller Wunderle Straessle (20140) Teacher’s Perspectives of Effective Planning: A Comparative
Analysis:(retrievedfrom:https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/235420532.pdfm: 6:28 pm)
Singapore Management University (Center for Teaching Excellence) Retrieved at:
https://cte.smu.edu.sg/approach-teaching/integrated-design/lesson-planning

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