A school is a formal agency of education. The classroom is a
formal place where teachers and pupils meet – the former of teaching, and the
latter of learning. Meetings between teachers and pupils should be occasions
for learning, thinking and understanding. To achieve maximum adventages, it
becomes imperative that educational activities be best planned and best
conducted. The teacher should create learning situations and organize them in
such a way that the child is motivated to know, to think and to do.
What is lesson plan
“A lesson plan” in the words of lester B. Sands, “is
actually a plan of action. It, therefore, includes the working philosophy of
the teacher, her knowledge of philosophy, her information about and
understanding of her pupils, her comprehension of the objectives of education,
her knowledge of the material to be taught, and her ability to utilize
effective methods.” A lesson – plan points out what has already been done, in
what direction the pupils should next be guided and helped and what work to be
taken up immediately. “It is the
teacher’s mental and emotional visualization of the classroom experience as the
plans it to occur.” “It is many ways the core the heart of effective teaching.”
A lesson plan should tell very simply the story, the way
the teacher intends, rightly or wrongly, to employ children for a given period:
what she and they are going to do. This written “story” should show both
sincerity and a plan – a flexible and informal plan.
Thus , a lesson – plan points out what has already been
done, in what direction the pupils should next be guided and helped, and the
immediate work to be taken up. It begins with goals of instruction and ends
with a well – conceived means of arriving at those goals.
