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What is a lesson plan?

A lesson plan is short-term, detailed plans for daily or week lessons, often including lesson objectives (aligned with the syllabus), teaching and learning activities, instructional materials, assessment techniques and timing and sequencing. It is the design of all daily lessons teaching and learning activities (REB, 2020). Preparing a lesson is to plan in advance:

-        What will be taught,

-        How to teach it,

-        The resources to be used and

-        Ways of assessment.

Advantages of a well- planned lesson

A teacher who has prepared his/her lesson is comfortable in the classroom, confident, does not hesitate and is not afraid of committing errors because he/she has checked, planned, and ordered everything. The discipline is maintained because he/she attracts students’ attention and keeps them working all the time, they do not have time to get bored and upset. His/her presentation is clear and orderly, the questions are well arranged, he/she progresses from simple to complex, from easy to difficult.

Disadvantages of an ill-prepared lesson

The teacher is anxious, he/she hesitates at each stage, which leads him/her to flip through the books all the time, resulting in a great waste of time. The lesson is not orderly, there is no logical progression, the learner fails to grasp the essential, he/she gets confused, and then drops out completely (Hattie & Clarke, 2020).

Note: The teacher should not be a slave to his/her lesson plan; he/she can go beyond it without losing the thread (line) of the essentials. Example: Teachers who do not want to answer questions raised by their students under the pretext that they (questions) are not part of what has been prepared. Teachers who are wasting their time moving away from the topic of the day and tackle those topics proposed here and now by the students.