Activity 4.4 Key Resources

For one of the sections that you chose write a brief review

·         Name the section:

Resource 1: Planning Lessons

·         Write a sentence to summarise one thing you have learned from this resource

A good lesson plan includes some in-built flexibility, helps to make lessons clear and well-timed, make students active and interested, thereby involving all. .

·         In the context of your subject, explain how you could use this idea in a lesson.

 Planning is a continual process to help you prepare individual lessons as well as series of lessons, each one building on the last. I have selected ‘Planning Lessons’ because it provides the opportunity to monitor my effectiveness as a teacher. Planning is all encompassing, and must be specific to students’ needs, measurable to know progress made in the continuum, attainable based on students assessed needs, relevant to the context in which teaching and learning is taking place, time-bound to the extent that supporting any child with any identified needs is done without delay.  None of the key resources can be effective without adequate planning. For instance, ‘Talk for Learning’ a teacher must plan ahead of time what to do to make pupils talk in class with confidence requires planning the lesson around what you want the students to learn and think about, as well as what type of talk you want them to develop.

What cannot be measured cannot be monitored. Monitoring my plan will help me as a teacher to measure how I am doing in the continuum, and where and what to adjust in my lesson delivery.