Lesson planning is definitely one of the toughest tasks that a teacher can undergo. This is a though that came to my mind after finishing my first real life lesson with kids. The fail or success of a lesson depends highly on the elaboration of a suitable lesson plan. Ever since my second semester in college, I have been challenged with the elaboration many kinds of lesson plans; some of them were very simple, others were very complex. However, this semester I underwent a different kind of challenge related to the elaboration of a lesson plan. This time, it was not the kind of lesson plan that represented a challenge; instead it was the fact that I had to implement it in a classroom.
Before this semester, I …show more content…
It was after my presentation partner and I finished delivering the lesson that I appreciated the benefits it would have bring us. A detailed procedure serves the teacher as a schedule; where each activity is delimitated by certain sequential order and certain period of time. This help the teacher in maintaining better organization of the different activities that take place during the lesson. In hind sight, I analyzed my partner’s and I presentation and found it somewhat repetitive and a little unorganized; I wondered if we were to write a longer and more detailed Procedure, we might have delivered the lesson in a more memorable manner for the students. In fact, the host teacher made the comment that in order to attain a more effective lesson we should have dedicated more time for the different activities in the lesson and allow the students more time to discussing the lesson’s …show more content…
While my partner and I were delivering our lesson, I noticed that many children were not participating in the discussions and some looked uninterested. My suspicion was confirmed true when I approached one of them and saw that he did not bother filling his work sheets. Now, if an uninterested student is a problem, I most said that the opposite also applies. While planning a lesson, teachers should be pay close attention to the over eager students, because if not treated carefully they can become very disruptive. This is something that I notice during the lesson my lesson delivery and other lessons lead by the host teacher. over eager children tended to speak out of place and interrupt their teacher and peers, when they are speaking. As consequence, the lesson can be easily derailed in a tangent and valuable time would be