Lesson planning must be flexible
You have a great lesson plan for your new class. On the first day of class you get feedback that indicates your original plan may not be best suited for this class. So to now make the class a good learning experience your plan must be changed. No one wants to sit through a class and feel left out.
I agree and have approached this task as if I'm the coach of a football team and we are preparing our game plan . Since no two games are ever the same.
No two classes that are the same. Instruction you may have successfully given to one class may be either too fast or too slow paced for the next class. Every lesson plan needs to be adjusted to the learning speed of the class. This doesn't imply you need to slow way down because the class is lazy, you may need to adjust the presentation to hold their interest and get them involved in the material.
I agee with the idea.I always find it difficult to make a lesson plan strictly according to the frame work.and it is difficult to follow the lesson plan strictly
I agree with you. With students ages ranging frpm
18 to 62 the life skills and experiences of each class have to be taken into account. Try to plan some flexibility into each day for "added value"
learning. If you can get them up and moving around to get their attention, you can then bring them back to the "PLANNED LESSON"
The subjects we teach are instruct,demo, and lab. It seems no matter how much time we spend teaching and showing ,most people learn by doing.
Do you feel that by allowing yourself to be flexible. You from fit the class to the speed of the students? Or do you find the by being too flexible you could miss valueable instruction time? I find this element to be a very thin line the teachers are constantly balancing.
I also agree. Mostly in the case of where there skill level is. Meaning that if I come into class and start teaching at a level they should know and I get blank looks from the students, maybe I need to be flexable enough to take them back for a short review of the subject so we can be on the same page. We want to make it work the best for the student.
I agree, but I also think that we have to be flexiable enough to change as the lesson goes on. I've seen classes that after lunch start to slide into the "WE ONLY HAVE 2 MORE HOURS LEFT" role and start getting distracted. Making sure that we can pull them back into the lesson requires minute by minute flexiblity.
I agree, too. I feel like all of my classes are a little different, even if I'm teaching the same subject. Each group comes into the classroom with different experiences, preferred learning styles, personalities, and it's our jobs as instructors to resist becoming so rigid that we refuse to change our favorite lesson plans.
prepare by doing research on teh subject. learn what you have available to you and talk with coworkers on the subject matter.
I agree with you. It's also difficult to plan for classes when you're expected to teach material that is beyond your scope of knowledge or experience and have little time to prepare. How do you prepare lessons when you have little experience in the subject matter?
