Name: Lovely Grace A.

Garvez
Year & Section: 4 – 401
Course & Specialization: BSED – ENGLISH

Reflective Journal # 8:
Writing my Contingency Plans

Though it isn't necessary to have a contingency plan for lesson plans especially if you
executed it and planned it perfectly but it is always better to be ready for the best. Since most of the
time we don't really know how events played out when conveying your lessons. Such as lessons not
exactly meeting the exact time or going pass over it. That’s why it is better to have a backup plan.
One’s lesson plan must be flexible in different situations. If your calculations of your student’s
capabilities were wrong then it's better to slow things down when teaching and make it more
comprehensible to the students that are listening to the teacher. It is also advisable to be able to
have sub categories of the main goal. In order for the students to consume the information put out
to them in small pieces that they can bite and not choke on. It is also better to plan ahead to
separate the lessons that a teacher is about to teach into 2 groups. So that in case things don't go
out as planned and you managed to pass the time limit to teach. You still have information to tell in
the next day that must also be on the same point/perspective than yesterday. To not confuse
students. Let’s talk about another example again. With the same principle which is the flexible
teaching ways. Let say maybe you didn't reach the exact time limit and there's still a huge time left.
Then this is where quizzes, tests, long tests and other activities that test the students comes into
handy. In doing so you manage to hit that exact time without ending classes early and without
wasting precious time. Let’s take another real life problem for example again. Let’s say the students
didn't quite understand what information/message you're trying to convey. This is when brain
storming and asking the students of their own ideas/opinions. In doing so the teacher is aware
what the students learned wrong and is aware of what must he/she do to perfectly teach his/her
students? Now these are only if things don't go out your ways but if things go right then maybe it is
not needed to have contingency plans. Still it is better to have a backup plan

What stresses me the most in writing this essay is that the lack of ways to do when things
don't go out their ways. Since most of the time it usually gets executed perfectly. Especially if you
carefully planned out and made a solid foundation of your lesson plan. The second stressor is the
lack of face to face class. Which I've already complained and mentioned about in my previous
essays. Since we don't really know if my principles really work if we put it to the test. It’s all
imagination and it’s different from reality. Reality is harsh and rough and doesn't exclude someone
from its harshness. Questions like “will this even work?” “How will this work?” “Why does it work?”
always gets in my way when writing essays about my own plans. Since we can't really put it to the
test with all these barriers in the way. Since face to face classes is still far from our reach. Then it's
our job as teachers to always be experimenting and trying ways to be effective and efficient
teaching in the new virtual learning system and in the old traditional face to face too.