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Lesson Plan

The document discusses lesson planning, including its meaning, purposes, types, steps, and principles. Lesson planning is preparing a plan to teach a lesson in an organized manner and helps teachers achieve goals, manage time, and avoid mistakes. Types of lesson plans include loosely and highly structured plans. Steps include planning, introduction, presentation, and recapitulation. Principles include having a flexible plan and ensuring student participation.

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Lesson Plan

The document discusses lesson planning, including its meaning, purposes, types, steps, and principles. Lesson planning is preparing a plan to teach a lesson in an organized manner and helps teachers achieve goals, manage time, and avoid mistakes. Types of lesson plans include loosely and highly structured plans. Steps include planning, introduction, presentation, and recapitulation. Principles include having a flexible plan and ensuring student participation.

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LESSON PLAN

INTRODUCTION:

Teaching unit generally contains a number of lessons. Careful planning of lessons is essential for
experienced as well as beginner teachers. Lesson planning is an important part of the planning of daily
teaching.

MEANING AND DEFINITION:

 Lesson plan is a plan prepared by a teacher to teach lesson in an organized manner.

 Lesson plan is a plan of action calls for an understanding of the teacher’s part about the topic
being taught and his/ her ability to use the effective method.

PURPOSES OF LESSON PLANNING:

 It helps the teacher in effective teaching.


 It helps to achieve definite goals and objectives.
 It keeps the teachers on track.
 It helps in time management.
 It provides confidence to the teacher.
 It helps to avoid repetition.
 It helps the teacher to overcome the feeling of nervousness
 It helps in deciding the appropriate teaching learning methods and instructional aids.
 It provides confidence to the teacher.
 It provides guidelines to the student – teacher.

TYPES:

 Loosely structured lesson plans - used by experienced teachers.


 Highly structured lesson plans – provides a clear road map of what needs to be taught and what
are the expected outcomes. It helps the teachers to avoid mistakes through proper planning.
Beginner teachers use highly structured lesson plans.

STEPS IN LESSON PLANNING:

The following steps may help in lesson planning:

 Planning:
 This step is concerned with the formulation of objectives, selection of the content,
organization of the content, selection of the teaching – learning methods, selection of audio –
visual aids etc
 Preparation / Introduction:
 This step is concerned with introducing the topic to the students in an interesting manner
there by preparing the students to receive new knowledge.
 Different methods and techniques can be used by the teacher to introduce the lesson
(discussing, illustration – showing images, stories)

 Presentation:
 In this step, the teacher and students actively engage in the teaching- learning process.
 The teacher actually presents/ explains the content.
 The teacher adopts various teaching methods and audio visual aids to make the learners better
understand the concept of the topic.
 The teacher can compare the concepts. E.g. while teaching the importance of maintaining
intake and output chart, the teacher has to motivate the students to recognize the conditions
which require IO monitoring from their clinical experience.
 The teacher has to teach the theory with a practical orientation so that students can easily
apply the learned lessons in various health care settings.

 Recapitulation/ Closing stage:


 This is the last step of lesson plan.
 It is concerned with:
 Planned repetition,
 giving assignments,
 evaluating pupils progress
 identifying the learners difficulties
 taking remedial measures- clarifying the doubts.

PRINCIPLES IN LESSON PLANNING:

The following principles will help in the preparation of a good lesson plan.

 The teacher should prepare a careful and flexible plan. The teacher should have the courage to
depart from the plan according to the needs of the students.
 The teacher must have mastery of an adequate training in the topic
 The teacher must be fully conversant with the new methods of teaching nursing
 The teacher should know his/ her students thoroughly and organize materials in a psychological
manner rather than logical manner.
 The teacher must ensure active student participation.
 Avoid monotonous method of teaching.

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