How Efficient Lesson Planning Can Help Teachers?

Planning is one of the most effective tools when it comes to doing something in any field of professional concentration that aims to have an excellent outcome. In teaching, lesson planning is the technique utilized to foresee what will happen inside the classroom and to strategize ahead of time if ever there will be untoward events that might arise during the class discussion. In this article, I will present to you several advantages of lesson planning that will help the teacher be motivated always to plan his lesson and not just go to the classroom without having any plans at all.

It will help you manage your time

Lessons sometimes could be very overwhelming and unknowingly and unconsciously, the teacher is spending overtime to a certain topic that would compromise the delivery of other lessons. Lesson planning will help the teacher conserve his time most especially if he has to deliver series of lesson in one semester or in one school-year. This will help him adjust his pacing and at the same time assign length of time according to the topic. This will also help the teacher evaluate if he has been delivering his lessons properly without skipping one lesson from the other.

It will help you attain your goals in the classroom

Inside the classroom, the teacher is the master and he has all the right to deliver the lesson in any strategy that he wants according to his professional training. However, even if how good the teacher is, if he doesn’t have a guide on how he could go to where he wants his students achieve later on, then most likely, it will be a failure not just to the teacher’s part but worse to the students’ part. Lesson planning however, will let the teacher create milestones from time to time to gradually attain his goals in his students’ accomplishment in one academic period.

It will give you an opportunity to explore more teaching styles

Teaching is dynamic and it needs to be updated and re-updated as the cycle of education continue to improve, theory upon theory, law upon law and the likes. The taste of the students also differs from one generation to another; what we think is new now will later on be classic teaching techniques. In lesson planning, you will have the opportunity to see if what teaching techniques you have been using for ages now and what specific techniques are now irrelevant to the delivery of lessons inside the classroom. It is some sort of taking off the old and incorporating the new ones that will fit to the interest of the present generation of learners. On the other hand, techniques motivate students to learn and their interest will determine the span of their attention inside the classroom that is why, updating teaching style and techniques is really important to facilitate learning. 

It will make your job in control and on track

Lesson planning is very important. It will give you peace of mind that will let you enjoy the other aspects of your life. In my experience as a teacher, there was a time that I was so lazy doing my lesson plan, and the result, I messed up with the other aspects of my life because I was so consumed and absorbed with my job. It kept me worried even if I was at home, thinking if I will meet the matrix at the end of the semester. Lesson planning is not just a technique but a teacher also on how we plan things out; not just inside the classroom, but also with other things in life. Remember that even at least one aspect of our life is unplanned it will affect the other aspects of our life. So, plan ahead and you will never mess up!

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