First journal 1

FEBRUARY 20TH What is essential to a lesson plan?

Our target for today’s meeting was trying to identify the different elements that are essential for a lesson plan. Our teacher Harold asked the elements that we though that were essential for a lesson plan; for that reason we set up some commandments to take in to account in the creation of lesson plans: 1. Know what you will teach: A teacher always has to be prepared in terms of concepts, activities, and classroom management, if they do not accomplish that, probably he or she are going to fail as teachers.

2. Know who your students are: It is very important that you be conscious that your students are different and unique; you as a teacher have to see them as diverse human beings, instead of abstract entities.

3. Get Material and Equipment ready: Material have important roles in classes’ development; for that reason a teacher has to choose the correct recourses in classes before starting.

4. Time your activities: The time management in a class determines the success in the activities, you can not spent several time in one activity.

5. Keep a method in mind: This is absolutely essential in a lesson plan because it is the structure and the foundation for the development of the class.

6. Have a procedure: A teacher always have to plan their activities. Improvisation is not an option, if you want to succeed as a teacher.

7. Set up objectives: This is the turning point of your lesson plan since you have to establish all the aspects that you want to achieve in your classroom; this includes the terminal objectives, is basically what you want achieve at the end of the activity, and the Enabling objectives, which are the mini objectives that are going to help us to achieve the terminal objective.