Planning Your Work

PLANNING YOUR WORK

Planning is a very fundamental tool for teachers. To be able to plan well is one of the key skills that teachers should have because it involves imagination, creativity, organization, responsibility, and passion for teaching. I think that planning your work allows you to imagine what is going to happen in the classroom since when teachers plan their work, they know how the time will be distributed in each activity, and how the lesson will fit in the class.

There are a number of benefits to writing a lesson plan. First, lesson planning produces more unified lessons. It gives teachers the opportunity to think deliberately about their choice of lesson objectives, the types of activities that will meet these objectives, the sequence of the activities, the materials needed, how long each activity might take, and how students should be grouped

For teachers the most difficult part of planning their work is to look for different methods that fit with each student’s capacity of learning because there can be methods that can fit with some student’s abilities, but there can be others that don’t. besides that, i consider that the lesson planning process allows teachers to evaluate their own knowledge with regards to the content to be taught

Also, we must mention why planning the work is important:

I think that most teachers plan lessons in order to feel more confident in the class.  If we know what we are trying to achieve in the lesson, we are freed up to spend more time with the learners rather than worrying about our next step. Planning is also important to map out learning activities in a coherent and logical way, in order to help students, understand, learn and practice concepts and skills which will develop their abilities in English.  

When planning the teacher’s work is important that every teacher sits down and think about the necessities of every student, and how they are going to cover every single necessity. One important thing to have in mind when planning a lesson is that teachers want to provide variety for their students because, as soon as they become bored, they have lost the crucial attention that students need to learn.

A very good way to vary making a lesson plan is to provide information that can be interesting for the students, but how can teachers do this?

Well, the newest threads are always interesting for the students. For example, the music can be a big help to beef up student’s learning. The good part of using threads is that they can be interpreted in different ways, but essentially they are activities & routines that students are familiar with, and which they will have no trouble picking up again.

As I mentioned in the brief explanation above, there are some aspects to consider when making a lesson plan and in the picture we can see which they are:

To create a lesson plan could be difficult for all the teachers because it takes a lot of time to think about all the activities that will be performed during the class, but also, it helps teacher to look more relaxed and confident at the moment to teach. According to some students from the major of licenciatura en el idioma ingles opción enseñanza, who had passed through this experience of teaching, planning their work to go to teach was not easy, but it was their biggest tool when teaching their students.  A teacher without that big tool is similar to a soldier without his weapon, so now, we can understand why planning our work as teachers is necessary to achieve all the objectives that we think about when we plan our classes.

 Lesson planning is at the heart of being an effective teacher. It is a creative process that allows us to synthesize our understanding of second language acquisition and language teaching pedagogy with our knowledge of our learners. Sometimes, teachers forget a very important part of planning their work ,and it is to motivate their students by telling them how good they are, or giving them pieces of advice to improve.

In conclusion, think of a time you entered a class with a hastily written lesson plan or no plan at all?

·         How was that experience?

       •   How did you feel?

       •   How would the lesson have been improved with more thorough

Those questions are for you to think about and reconsider if you are doing a good job as a teacher. If the answers of those questions are not as good as you expected is because you are not making a correct use of your lesson plan, or you are not planning your work correctly.