Importance Of Lesson Plan

This process was significant for me because it helped me to see how lesson planning is vital when it comes to the teaching-learning process. Allowing me to properly plan ahead helped me to stay organized and keep on track, thus allowing me to teach more. Not only that, I was able to help students reach objectives more easily and spend less time on managing the classroom. This provided me to have a coherent framework for effective teaching, to be more confident when delivering the lesson, and helping me plan for future adjustments I need to make to cater to all types of learners.
I was deeply involved in the designing, implementing, and evaluating of my lesson. Before designing my lesson plan, I asked my Mentor what his students struggled with the most. His reply was reading comprehension …show more content…
I decided that would my lesson would be having the students’ use context clues to explicate and translate the Prologue of Romeo and Juliet. After reviewing the lesson plan with my Mentor, he agreed to have me teach the whole lesson. Upon implementing the lesson my Mentor made an announcement to the class(s) making it known that I would be teaching the lesson for the day and to have my undivided attention. I started the lesson with a short YouTube video. This video was done in a “rap” and gave a great synopsis of Romeo and Juliet. After the video was over, I asked questions i.e., “What is Romeo and Juliet about,” or “Did you like how this was done in a rap” and called on a few students to share their thoughts. Moving into the instructional input, I had the students’ take notes and I taught the definitions and importance of the vocabulary words and made sure to voice and visualize them. (CLPs are defined as those lecture points that have been deemed important by the teacher…” (Boyle 91). Proceeding into the guided practice the students were provided a