Course :MAED- Teaching Mathematics Professor: Dr. Rogel M. Limpida
Subject Code: 227
Subject Description: INSTRUCTIONAL PLANNING FOR SECONDARY MATHEMATICS TEACHERS
Critique/Review Paper Module 9
Teacher as Planner In the achievement of learner’s outcome, teacher is one of the factor to make it quite good and achievable especially the learning content and subject matter. The importance of mastery in the subject areas handled by the major teacher easily help them to ensure and assure the quality of learning outcome and mastery in the learning content. A globally competitive teachers bring the holistically developed characteristics to ensure the quality of education offered in one institution. The role of the teacher as a learning planner includes the design of play activities in the form of annual programs, semester planning, weekly planning and daily planning. From this statement, it can be concluded that the teacher's role in the learning planner is the teacher as an administrator. Teachers are planners. This is the essential role of successful teaching. Before all else, the teacher must develop a “flight plan.” Like any good flight plan, it must lay out a destination and the path to that destination. Of course, the pilot has to know when she has reached that destination. A well-conceived plan is fundamental to a successful learning experience. Without a good flight plan, the inexperienced teacher crashes. Then they must pick themselves up and go on to the next flight. Each crash helps the teacher get closer to better plans. The beginning teacher first becomes a manager and then a planner. As any veteran teacher will admit, crashes lead to successes; successes, to experience; and experience lead to the happy veteran teacher. Planning is preparing a course of action to achieve specific objectives. There are three levels of planning. The curriculum is planning over a year or years of learning experiences. It is the overall course of action within a district or a school or a classroom for an extended period of time. On the next level is the unit. The unit is a section of the curriculum that deals with related material. The unit usually is designed to last for weeks or days. The practical working level of a unit is the daily lesson plan. It is the course of action for the day.