MODULE 2 PART 1: LESSON PLANNING - AN OVERVIEW

1.0. LESSON PLANNING – WHY & HOW

Planning is an essential part of our daily lives. We have plans for almost everything
we do in life. When we wake up in the morning the first thing that we think about is
what we plan to do for the rest of the day. Schools teach their students to plan
through assignments and tasks. Travelling, shopping and cooking are some of the
things that we do in our daily lives and they all must be planned. Making your
favourite dish needs preparation (planning) or following instructions. Our jobs,
duties and chores are all planned.

Lesson planning is compulsory in most academic institutions around the world.

Local education authorities also require schools to keep records of all plans written
by teachers in preparation for class. Formats vary from country to country and also
from institution to institution. Some academic institutions are very strict on having a
lesson plan before the session starts. Other academic institutions demand that you
turn in your lesson plans for the week, month or academic period. Many have
formats for monthly, weekly or daily planners.

The information here will provide you with the basic steps in writing a lesson plan.
We have found this format to be very effective and easily adaptable to any
teaching context. You will also find other lesson plan formats but in the end the
objective is the same.

You will be referred to the example video and accompanying lesson plan
throughout the module so you can see how all of this applies in a real class.