A Lesson Plan

A lesson plan

A lesson plan is an instructor’s detailed description of the current course, is also a way to guide the class instruction. In the lesson plan there has to be the requirements that the state and the school has mandated. A teacher does have free will with his or her lesson plans as long as they adhere to what the school board deemed necessary to be thought in the classroom. Now in most teachers’ lesson plans no matter what subject they happen to be teaching the state has more power especially in the state of Florida where the FCAT has taken precedence over most of the school’s curricula. The teachers are limited to teaching the requirements that will allow the student to pass this state mandated test. This test is crucial to the student being promoted to the next grade level.
There are many formats for writing a lesson plan, most of these lesson plans contains these items, in a well developed lesson the needs and interest of the students is the singular most important part. One of the first thing the teacher must look at prior to writing a lesson plan is what is the focus of the plan, next the teacher will create classroom activities that correspond with whatever it is the teacher is trying to teach the students, third and most important of all is the teacher has to decide if the plan on the same educational level as the students they are trying to reach; if the students are above the lesson than they will tend to be bored and lose focus, also if the lesson plan is above their levels the students will be lost and the end result will be the same.
To write a successful lesson plan these items must be included in this order: title of the lesson plan, the time required to complete, the materials needed, the objectives which can be behavioral or knowledge base, the set, independent practice; which will allow the student to extend their thinking, summary of the lesson plan; this is the part where questions are being asked, the analysis the uses to reflect on the lesson, reflection on the contents of the lesson plan. When all of these factors are in order, the teacher has to make sure the lesson plan correlate with the school’s text book.