LESSON PLAN

 The Behaviorist Lesson plan


Lesson Plan varies from Subject to subject, school to School and class to class. yet there are Certain basic essentials which must find a place in all lesson plan. There are various forms of written lesson plans based on approaches to lesson planning. As the instruction is objective based, it would be useful to present a lesson in such a way that one could easily visualize the interrelationship of content, objectives, learning activities resulting in learning experiences and evaluation. This type of lesson plans are known as ‘behaviouristic’ because it intends to achieve measurable behavioral outcomes. A horizontal approach in which content, objective learning experiences, evaluation etc are given Side by side, in separate columns may serve this purpose.


Constructivist Lesson plan    (Teaching Manual)


The learnability of the content and its value for the Learner depends on the quality of the learning task. Learning experiences. or tasks that are repetitive and mechanical and based on recalling The text, do not permit self expression and questioning by the child.learner’s  have to receive by others, they cannot the knowledge created learn to value their own ability to think and reason  The basic idea of constructivism is that the learner must construct knowledge; the teacher cannot supply it.. The constructivist Paradigm as advocated by Praget and Bruner stresses that whatever gets into the mind has to be constructed by the individual through known discovery.  According to Simsons ( (993) Construction is an approach in which the learner is building in internal illustration of knowledge, a series interpretation of experience..


                                      

                             Lesson plan


   A lesson plan is the actual plan of action and is key to effective teaching


Definitions

Good -                       “outline of the important points of a lesson arranged in the order in which They are to be presented to students by the teacher .”


Luster B Stands -                          “It is actually a plan of action "

N. L. Bossing - "Lesson plan is the title given to a statement of the achievements to be realized and the specific means by which these are obtained as a result of the activities engaged in day-by day under the guidance of the teacher”


                       importance of Lesson Planning


( a) It helps the teacher to make his whole work well organised

(b) It guides the teacher to fulfill different aims and objectives of the lesson in hand.

(c)  It is a time Saving device.

( d) It helps a teacher to make the maximum use of his Teacher's Guide Book" for planning and delivery of lessons in a particular Subject.

(e) It helps a teacher to improve his art of questioning while he is engaged in delivering  his lesson.

( f) It is a tool to assess the work of a teacher  as also his class with regard to teaching success

( g) It helps a teacher to estimate how much knowledge, skills etc can be passed on to students in a week or a day. He accordingly adjusts  his planning

(h) Regular practice of writing planned lessons by a teacher, helps him to delimit or enhance his lessons for a week or a day

(i) It. encourages correlation of a subject like physical sciences with other allied and different Subjects including, Bio-Sciences, Economics etc.

(i) It builds confidence among teachers, particularly freshers, in their teaching practice and helps them to become successful teachers.

( j) At encourages a teacher to select different strategies including the use of suitable AV aids, to attain his goals of lesson-planning

( k) Basically a lesson plan after long drill fixes various steps and stages in the mind of a practicing teacher

( m) It stimulates the teacher to ask striking question

(n) it provides more freedom in teaching

(0) The lesson plan helps in creating the interest of students towards the lesson.

( p) A proper correlation is established between the new and old lesson.

(q) This helps the teachers to choose the best teaching method.

 ( r) This helps the teacher to teach, keeping in mind the individual differences.

(s) The teaching matter is organised in a time frame



General Essentials of a Good Lesson Plan


(a) It should neither be too long nor too short, but Should be' to the point’.

( b) The levels of the class and the mental age of the students Should always be kept in mind while making a good lesson plan. So the method Procedure, techniques etc should match with

The students

(C) Previous knowledge should be connected with the new lesson to be taught

(d) Examples given  in the lesson Should be related to the daily life situation of the children.

( e) The aims and objectives of a lesson should be Stated very clearly

(f) There should be scope for recapitulation, motivational, choices ate of the lesson so as to make it effective

(g) The lesson should be covered in The prescribed time and the period of delivery

(h) It  should be child- centered, and the pupil Should be involved in the lesson.

(i) It should meet the present as well as the future needs of children.

( j) home assignment given to pupils should be in class, close relation with the lesson delivered in the class

( K) Suitably chosen illustrations in science should be presented in an impressive manner

(I) The lesson plan Should be written carefully and each step or sub-step should be clearly

explained.

( m)it should not make a teacher a slave of text book or his method of teaching

(n) It should help teacher to do in his class what he is unable to do out of the class

(0) It is better if a reference is given in The lesson plan about the reading material used for content of the lesson in hand

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